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。但是，关于日本企业的全球化与全球信息技术的研究，迄今为止还很少有人尝试。本研究从1994年至1995年，根据问卷调查结果，分析了日本企业的全球化战略与全球信息技术的关系。在本分析中，根据企业的国际通信线路和复杂程度，将企业分为2类或4类。通过本研究，我们明确了以下几点。首先，日本企业在不同的全球信息系统下采取不同的全球企业战略。第二，全球信息系统的建设因产业类型、企业规模、全球化发展阶段、海外经营规模的不同而有所差异，1996年，我们研究了日本全球企业及其全球信息系统中的群件、内联网、电子数据交换（EDI）、光速商务（CALS）和因特网等新的信息技术。

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.