KEY ISSUES IN THE LOCALLIZATION OF JAPANESE MULTINATIONALS

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Localization of Japanese multinational management system is the key issue of this research study, which had been held for three years in 1995 , 96 and 97. In order to implement the study, the research plan had been made to visit Japanese local companies in East Asian countries in the first year in 1995, in the United States in 1996 and in Europe in 1997.Three research groups were organized to visit local companies as many as possible. The interview guide including eighty questionnaires were prepared to do interviewing local companies. In addition enquete for corporate people as well as local staff people were sent separately to the visiting companies to save the research time. Those companies that we visited to interview were fifty-eight in East Asia, thirty-four in the US and thirty-five in the Europe.The issue of localizing Japanese multinational management is specifically indentified how the japanese style management system are transferred to the local production base in specific lo … More cal coutry, which means how they act or react to meet local managerial conditions in a country. Further these are on the adjusting and solving process that Japanese multinational management may create some conflicts consciously or unconsciously with local people.Under the assumption that specific localized management system had not been raised well in East Asian coutries except Korea, those facts are clarified that the more localized companies have been training lacal staff as well as technical people who understand basic Japanese management skills so that such system has been adopted to local conditions effectively.On the other hand the other facts are also clarified in the US and Europe that both transferring Japanese management and local people's knowledge as well as experience are mulually inter-acted on the localizing process rather than conflicts to certain degree that local people are able to accept it or not. More specifically in the area of production and purchasing parts including component, Japanese management system are well localized. On the contrary merit systems for evaluating staff people are considerably introduced.In addition these facts are confirmed that some Japanese management system such as information sharing and active job-location are on the way to be well localized. These fact are more than we exepected . In this meaning such a concluding summary is clarified that among Japanese management systems some universal factors are identified, and they are functing to create competitive edge of Japanese corporations.In these research study some specific points are clarified additionally as follows : firstly globalizing process are well identified in managerial activities by the Japanese local companies. Secondly some different perspective are recognized between US and European management and some difference are also overviiew in the local management lebel even in Europe. Thirdly these facts are clarified that such different local managerial conditions have been giving some influence toward the Japanese local management system.Some results of these research study are published in April in 1998 by the titl "Japanese local management in East Asia" and other research results of US and Europe will be published as well. Less