‐planning functions within Japanese apparel wholesalers. Design/methodology/approach – A questionnaire survey was conducted involving … Japanese apparel wholesalers and applied the probit and multinomial Logit regression analyses. Findings – The main findings are … obtain goods from within Japan and other countries and sell goods throughout Japan. Practical implications – Small‐scale and …

The Japanese “sogo shosha” – Japanese General Trading Companies – have played a major role in the phenomenal growth of … the Japanese economy. Throughout the century, sogo shosha have secured raw material import inputs and have marketed and … manufactured high value‐added exports of the Japanese economic machine. However, the twenty‐first century is nearly here – along …

With the Japanese economy going through a period of prolonged stagnation many of its established institutions have to … place in the Japanese economy and are currently trying to increase their role in the Japanese retail sector. This paper …

Japanese General Trading Companies or sogo shoshas have been instrumental in the phenomenal Japanese economic miracle …