Spaces of International Economy and Management: Launching New Perspectives on Management and Geography

377 Pages·2012·22.255 MB·English

by  Rolf D. Schlunze, Nathaniel O. Agola, William W. Baber (eds.)

Spaces of International Economy and Management

Spaces of International
Economy and Management
Launching New Perspectives on
Management and Geography
Edited by
Rolf D. Schlunze
Nathaniel O. Agola
and
William W. Baber
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* Selection and editorial content Cl Rolf D. Schlunze, Nathaniel O.Agoia
and William W. Baber 2012
Individual chapters () the contributors 2012
Foreword Cl HenryWai-chung Yeung 2012
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Contents
List of Tables vii
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgements xii
Foreword xiii
Henry Wai-chung Yeung
Notes on Contributors xx
Part I Defining Management Geography
1 Spaces of International Economy and Management:
Launching New Perspectives on Management and Geography 3
Rolf D. Schlunze, Michael Plattner, William W Baber,
and Nathaniel o. Agola
2 "Hybrid" Managers Creating Cross-Cultural Synergy:
A Systematic Interview Survey from Japan 24
Rolf D. Schlunze
3 Mobile Elite in the Global City: International Managers'
Location Preferences 46
Michael Plattner
Part II Spaces of International Economy
4 Managing Global Cities through Corporate Network Analysis 6S
Ronald S. Wall
S Competition Development in the BRIC Countries:
Toward a Unified International Economic Space 82
Rinas V. Kashbrasiev
6 Regulatory Risk and Foreign Investments
Developed in Latin America 9S
Anxo Calvo Silvosa and Ruben C. Lois-Gonzalez
7 Restructuring in Regional Economies and Introducing a Province
System in Japan: With Special Reference to the Kansai Region 113
Masato Ikuta
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8 Trading Area and Locational Decision of Foreign
Affiliates in Osaka Prefecture 134
Sawako Maruyama
Part III Spaces of International Management
9 How Does US Educational Experience Shape the Everyday
Work Environment of Japanese Legal Professionals? ISS
Tim Reiffenstein
10 Global Operations of Japanese MNEs' Hybrid Factories:
Management Geography Framework 176
TetsuoAbo
11 Spaces of]apanese Management: Toward a Dynamic
Hybridization Theory 200
Katsuo Yamazaki
12 Survival Strategies of a Local Industry and the Characteristics
of Its Overseas Operations: A Case Study of the
Glove-Related Industry in Eastern Kagawa, Japan 221
Atsushi Taira
13 International Production Allocation Strategies
of Japanese Animation Studios 239
Kenta Yamamoto
14 Adjusting to a Distant Space: Cultural Adjustment and
Interculturally Fluent Support 2S4
William W Baber
Part IV A New Perspective
IS New Geographies of Global Managerial Practice:
The Case of Business Services 271
Andrew Jones
16 Location-Based Service Innovation Technologies in Japan:
A Survey and Critical Analysis 296
Nathaniel O. Agola
17 Space Oddity - On Managerial Decision Making and Space 304
Patrik Strom and Roger Schweizer
18 Internationalization of Business Networks: How Do Managers
with Divergent Cultural Norms Contribute? 322
Michael Plattner
Index 347
Tables
2.1 Differences between expat and hybrid managers 37
2.2 Synergy creation differs by location 39
3.1 Attributes and variables to distinguish
locational preferences 53
3.2 Coefficients of the principal component analysis
by city-location 57
3.3 Coefficients of the principal component analysis
by manager type 58
3.4 Result of the rotated component matrix 58
4.1 Negative binomial pseudo maximum likelihood
regression on the number of corporate connections
between countries 70
6.1 Clusters 105
8.1 Location of foreign affiliates by prefecture, 2004 135
8.2 Number of affiliates and composition 141
8.3 Areas in which most suppliers are located 142
8.4 Share of Osaka companies among all suppliers 143
8.5 Areas in which most customers are located 143
8.6 Share of Osaka companies among all customers 144
8.7 Reasons for locating in Osaka 146
9.1 Case study examples: Japanese subjects with
US law school experience 164
9.2 How does the education of Japanese students
benefit US law schools, individuals, firms, and
the Japanese legal sector? 170
10.1 Three types of market, organization and
business model in three major regions 180
10.2 Application ratio of the Japanese production system
at overseas Japanese plants 182
11.1 Comparison between the surveys in 1989 and 2000 203
11.2 Criteria for application-adaptation (hybrid)
(23-item, six-group) evaluation 205
12.1 The contents of the current domestic sales
of the glove-related industry in eastern Kagawa 229
12.2 The contents of the current sales for export
of the glove-related industry in eastern Kagawa 229
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viii List of Tables
12.3 Foreign operations for production of
the glove-related industry in eastern Kagawa 231
13.1 Subcontracted animation processes by region 244
13.2 Japanese studios' emphases when they contract
work out to Korean and Chinese studios 244
13.3 Annual sales and import/export values in the
Korean animation industry 246
13.4 Outline of activities of Studio A, Studio B, and
Studio C and origin and experience of each manager 250
14.1 Comparison of cultural informant and mentor 259
18.1 Actor attributes 328
18.2 Network homophily measures 331
Figures
1.1 Logic of managerial embeddedness 7
2.1 Strategic intent and acculturation:
necessary conditions for synergy 33
2.2 Types of working style 34
2.3 Types of lifestyle 35
2.4 Leveraging of sources of synergy 40
2.5 Balancing strategic intent and acculturation for synergy 41
3.1 Framework to measure sources of international
management success 49
3.2 Results from the principal component analysis:
Tokyo vs Osaka 51
3.3 Results from the principal component analysis:
global vs local network by city-location 51
3.4 Results from the principal component analysis:
expat vs hybrid manager 52
3.5 Results from the principal component analysis:
global vs local network by manager type 52
4.1 Functional linkages in a hypothetical urban system 72
4.2 GIS map of the distribution of corporate connectivity
(ownership shares) between nations 72
4.3 UCINET network diagram of the distribution of
corporate connectivity between nations 73
4.4 GIS map of the intercity distribution of advanced
producer service connectivity 74
4.5 Competition in the corporate intercity network of
advanced producer services 74
4.6 Hypothetical model to explain urban management
in relation to network performance and competition 77
5.1 Economic growth rates of BRIC countries, 2000-2008 83
6.1 Regulatory risk as a component of political risk and,
in turn, of country risk 96
6.2 Dendrogram using the Ward Method 106
6.3 Variables (1) 107
6.4 Variables (2) 107
7.1 Japanese regions 116
7.2 Kansai region 118
7.3 Concept of Osaka Metropolitan Area 120
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