Introduction - PART 1: THE CULTURAL DIMENSION - Socio-Cultural Background of Competitive Management and Technology in the Western Pacific Rim; Y.Yawata - Ethics and Global Competitiveness: Confucianism in Korean Companies; D.Cazal - PART 2: THE MANAGEMENT OF THE FIRM - The Japanese Management Structure as a Competitive Strategy: the Importance of Nexus of Long-term Treaties, Common Knowledge and Firm-Specific Learning; I.Tyrni - Rethinking Inter-firm Ties in Japan as a Factor of Competitiveness; I.Tselichtchev - Future Models of Japanese Management: A Forecast Based on the Delphi Method; M.Hanaoka & T.Mroczkowski - Determinants of Competitive Power of Small Business Networking: the Overseas Chinese Case; S.G.Redding - PART 3: THE INTERNATIONALISATION PROCESS - The Process of Internationalization of PRC Multinations; C-S.Tseng - Japan's Success in China; N.Campbell - Globalisation and the Korean Electronics Industry: A Chandlerian Perspective; M.D.H.Bloom - PART 4: ADAPTATION TO THE LOCAL ENVIRONMENT - Japanese-affiliated Automobile Plants in the US and Taiwan; H.Kumon - A Comparative Study on the Japanese Production System Employed at Affiliated Electronics Plants in the US and Taiwan; H.Itagaki - Sanyo's Overseas Production Activities: Seven Large Plants in the US, Mexico, Germany, Spain, the UK and China; T.Abo - PART 5: EXPANSION INTO EUROPE - On the Advance of Japanese Electronics Multinationals in the EC: Companies, Trends and Trade Policy; R.Belderbos - Japanese Pharmaceutical Firms: Players in the European Market?; J.Probert - Globalisation through Localisation: Reflections on the Japanese Production Subsidiaries in the United Kingdom; J.B.Kidd - PART 6: COMPARING ASIAN AND EUROPEAN FIRMS - Opto-electronics-related Competence Building in Japanese and European Firms; K.Miyazaki - Global Competitiveness through Strategic Alliances: the Case of the German and Japanese Chemical Industries; Y.Teramoto, T.Takai & F-J.Richter - Managerial Behaviour of French and Japanese Firms; M.Yoshimori - Index
