Positive Studies of Corporate Strategy and Global Information Technology in Japanese Companies

随着日本企业的全球化，支持全球业务的信息技术是一个关键问题。然而，迄今为止，对日本企业全球化及其全球信息技术的研究还很少。在1994 - 1995年的研究中，我们根据问卷的答案，分析了日本公司的全球企业战略与全球信息技术之间的关系。在这个分析中，这些公司根据他们的国际通信线路和他们的复杂程度被分为两组或四组。通过本研究，我们澄清了以下几点。首先，在不同的全球信息系统下，日本企业正在采取不同的全球企业战略。第二，全球信息系统的建设根据行业类型、企业规模、全球化的成长阶段、对外经营规模的不同而有一定的差异。1996年，我们研究了日本跨国公司的一些新的信息技术及其全球信息系统，即群件、内部网、电子数据交换（EDI）、光速商务（CALS）和互联网。

With the globalization of Japanese companies, the information technology to support global business is a critical issue. However, only a few attempts have so far been made at the study on the globalization of Japanese companies and its global information technology.In this research from 1994 to 1995, We analyzed the relation between the global corporate strategy and the global information technology in Japanese companies based on the answers to our questionnaire. In this analysis, the companies were classified into two or four groups in accordance with their international communication lines and their levels of sophistication.We clarified the following points with this research. First, Japanese companies are adopting different global corporate strategies under the different global information systems. Second, the building of global information systems has some difference according to the type of industry, the scale of the company, the growth stages of globalization, and its size of foreign operation.In 1996, we studied some new information technology in Japanese global companies and its global information systems, namely Groupware, Intranet, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Commerce at Light Speed (CALS), and Internet.