The superior competitiveness of the Japanese cotton industry became so obvious in the interwar period. The sources of the Japanese competitive advantage have thus collected considerable scholarly interest. A series of past studies stressed the significance of planned coordination and managerial...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Inamori Management Philosophy: Schematic representation -- Chapter 3 Kazuo Inamori -- Chapter 4 Ideology and Rules -- Chapter 5 Leadership -- Chapter 6 Amoeba Management and hourly profit system (AMS) -- Chapter 7 Inamori’s strategy analysed through...

In this paper we try to explain how price discrimination can cause bilateral trade patterns of the type seen under countertrade agreements. We interpret countertrade as a form of transaction bundling, which can discriminate between potential trading partners, and we combine characteristics from...

Leslie Willcocks and Chong Ju Choi address the issue of whether cases of 'total' IT outsourcing merit descriptions such as 'strategic alliance' 'cooperative' or 'strategic partnership'. The business strategy literature is used to elicit developments in conceptual aspects of strategic alliances...