Bøker av Toyohiro Kono

This text presents empirical research on the strategies and organizational culture of some of the most prominent Japanese corporations. It investigates what makes them agile, how they build long-term vision, and how they manage the process of change in a world of mega-competition.

This new, sophisticated analysis of Japanese manufacturing corporations, based on data from over two hundred corporations, will enable the reader to better understand Japanese management systems and their potential to lay a foundation for successful management systems throughout the world.

This book tries to describe the formal long-range planning process of Japanese corporations, to analyze the formal strategic decision making process and to find theories through this analysis.