Choose and focus : Japanese business strategies for the 21st century / Ulrike Schaede.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-283) and index.

1. Introduction -- Pt. I. Toward Choose and Focus -- 2. Japan's Strategic Inflection Point, 1998-2006 -- Pt. II. The Old Japan -- 3. Postwar Corporate Strategy -- 4. Diversification versus Focus -- Pt. III. Japan's Changing Industrial Architecture -- 5. Corporate Relations: Keiretsu, Cross-Shareholdings, and the Main Bank -- 6. Ownership: Institutional Investors, Mergers and Acquisitions, and Corporate Governance -- 7. Subcontracting: Globalization and Supplier Relations -- 8. Price Competition: The Business-to-Business and Retail Price Revolutions -- 9. Lifetime Employment: Changing Human Resource Management -- Pt. IV. New Markets and New Entry -- 10. Venture Capital: Opening Access to Finance -- 11. New Competitors: Softbank, Kakaku.com, Astellas, and SBI E*Trade Securities -- 12. Conclusion: The New Japan.

"In Choose and Focus, the first in-depth account of this strategic inflection point in Japanese business, Ulrike Schaede argues that the emerging practices and attitudes have created a New Japan. Drawing on profiles of several corporations, including Panasonic, Takeda, Astellas, Softbank, and kakaku.com, Schaede explains how the fundamental principles of Japan's economy have been overturned. "Choose and focus" strategies, Whereby corporations concentrate on core areas and spin off unrelated businesses, have completely altered the strategic logic of Japan's previous industrial architecture."--BOOK JACKET.