Japan′s consumers are said to be the most meticulous and demanding consumers in the world – expecting only the best in quality and service from the merchant. However true this may be, how protected are these consumers by their own government? In an irony of place and time, the world′s...

Examines the cultural and structural changes in both California and Massachusetts over the last 40 years to explain those factors which caused these innovative hot spots to glow brightly and then cool. Examines innovative hot spots and their similarities and differences from the rest of the...

Much current Japanese popular discussion centres around the sudden death, at an early age, of Japan′s hard‐working white‐collar workers: karoshi – death from overwork – or Salaryman′s Sudden Death Syndrome. Officially it does not exist as the Government and big business are hesitant...

Examines the relationship and importance of cross‐cultural egotiations to successful international marketing activities. Provides examples of differing cross‐cultural behaviour, and its potential impact on multinational (multi‐cultural) negotiations and hence on international marketing...

Within the last two decades, the Japanese economic machine has caught up, if not overtaken, the US as the world′s leading economy. Japan has virtually conquered the American consumer electronics, semiconductor, and machine tool marketplace and, except for quotas, would have done the same for...

Within the last two decades, the Japanese economic machine has caught up with, if not overtaken, the US as the world′s leading economy. Japan has virtually conquered the American consumer electronics, semiconductor, and machine tool marketplace and, except for quotas, would have done the same...

Fifty years after Pearl Harbor, Japanese economic arrogance is becoming widely apparent. Argues that the cultural and economic homogeneity which formed the basis of Japan′s economic success will eventually lead to its downfall. Examines the fallacies of economic arrogance and what lies in the...

Since the nature of marketing is meeting the needs and wants of one′s customers and those needs and wants are culturally based, it is of especial importance for the marketeer to understand another culture and the differences inherent before he attempts to market goods or services to a foreign...

Most studies of innovation have a biased high tech slant to them. For an innovation to be considered of major importance it must ordinarily be a high tech innovation which advances the knowledge of society. But innovation is not the exclusive domain of the Western or industrialized world....

Before 1500 Britain was not considered a major European power. Three hundred years later Britain led the way for the Industrial Revolution and held sway economically and militarily during the nineteenth century. The twentieth century saw the United Kingdom lose her empire, her military...