Information Sharing Mode of Japanese Companies After three-Revolution: From the Point of View of Co-Relation Between Management and Language

本研究旨在揭示在电子革命时代，日本企业的信息共享模式作为管理全球化的推动力所面临的困难。所谓日本式管理，其特点是稳定而紧密的信息共享模式，使日本企业在20世纪80年代能够享有相对于外国竞争者的比较优势。然而，互联网更适合于开放和临时的信息共享模式，许多海外公司成功地改变了他们的模式，以获得新的信息技术的优势。目前，日本企业有望转变为开放的经营模式，但关键问题是，能否放弃日本式经营的优点，以通用的企业语言英语进行经营，充分利用海外人力资源和信息。困难在于，一方面，只有少数日本商人能够用英语进行充分的交流，其次，日本式管理与日语密切相关。日语的特点和特有的逻辑体现在公司的决策制度和沟通模式等方面。日本企业现在进退两难。

This research was intended to show what difficulties the information sharing mode of Japanese companies present in the age of e-revolution as a driving force for the globalization of management. The so called Japanese style management is characterized by the stable and close information sharing mode by which the Japanese companies could enjoy the comparative advantage over foreign competitors in the 1980s. However, the Internet is more adaptive to open and ad-hoc information sharing mode toward which many overseas companies successfully changed their modes to get the advantage of the new information technology. The Japanese companies are now expected to change their mode to be more open, but the key issue is whether they could give up the merits of Japanese style management and begin doing management using the English language as an universal business language to fully utilize overseas human resources and information. The difficulty is that, for one thing, only a limited number of Japanese businessman can communicate sufficiently in English, and secondly, the Japanese style management is closely related to the Japanese language. The characteristics and particular logics of the Japanese language is reflected on such as companies' decision-making system and communication patterns. The Japanese companies are now in a big dilemma.