Research for Global Control Mechanism of Japanese MNEs

日本跨国企业全球控制机制研究

基本信息

批准号：
10630106
负责人：
ITAGAKI Hiroshi
金额：
$ 1.15万
依托单位：
Musashi University (1999-2001)Saitama University (1998)
依托单位国家：
日本
项目类别：
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
财政年份：
1998
资助国家：
日本
起止时间：
1998 至 2000
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

The purpose of this research is to examine international activities of Japanese Multinationals and the structure and the function of global control mechanism of them. We have executed a field study, including interviews with staff concerned international operations and expatriates of foreign subsidiaries of Japanese companies, since we need informal data and information as well as information of formal corporate structure. Many Japanese Multinationals have relied on one to one relationship between headquarters or mother plants and foreign affiliated companies rather than global control mechanism. Since early 1990s, however, Japanese Multinationals can not correspond the managerial environment strategically by this kind of corporate structures and information processing style. This research is based on this motif. Following is major points of the report of this research. Firstly, we characterize the Japanese Multinationals as the paradox between their high-performance operational efficiency and their low-performance profitability. This characteristics are closely related to the features of control mechanism of Japanese multinationals, that is, high ratio of expatriate employees, significance of informal communication, and their tendency to leave much of the strategic and business decision-making in the hands of the parent companies. Secondly, We discuss the significance of foreign direct investment under structural transformation of Japanese economy, which determine the operation of Japanese Multinationals. Thirdly, we demonstrate the actual conditions of the characteristics and control mechanism of Japanese Multinationals, by examining the behavior of them under Asian economic crisis. Finally, we examine the global control mechanism, through case study of the development of European operations of Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd, which is one of the leading Japanese Multinationals.

这项研究的目的是检查日本跨国公司的国际活动以及它们的全球控制机制的结构和功能。我们已经执行了一项现场研究，包括对有关国际业务的员工的访谈和日本公司外国子公司的外籍人士的访谈，因为我们需要非正式的数据和信息以及正式公司结构的信息。许多日本跨国公司都依靠总部或母植物与外国附属公司而不是全球控制机制之间的一对一关系。然而，自1990年代初以来，日本跨国公司无法通过这种公司结构和信息处理方式从战略上对管理环境进行通信。这项研究基于此主题。以下是这项研究报告的主要要点。首先，我们将日本跨国公司描述为其高性能运营效率与低绩效盈利能力之间的悖论。这种特征与日本跨国公司的控制机制的特征密切相关，即外籍员工的高比例，非正式沟通的意义以及它们倾向于将许多战略和业务决策留在母公司手中。其次，我们讨论了日本经济结构转型在日本跨国公司的运作下的外国直接投资的重要性。第三，我们通过研究亚洲经济危机下的行为来证明日本跨国公司的特征和控制机制的实际条件。最后，我们通过案例研究Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.，Ltd的欧洲运营发展，这是日本领先的跨国公司之一。