Japanese multinationals abroad : individual and organizational learning / edited by Schon L. Beechler and Allan Bird.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

End of innocence : Japanese multinationals abroad / Allan Bird and Schon Beechler -- Changing perspectives on the organization of Japanese multinational companies / D. Eleanor Westney -- When Japanese and other nationals create something new : a comparative study of negotiated work culture in Germany and the United States / Mary Yoko Brannen and Jane E. Salk -- Negotiated understandings : the organizational implications of a cross-national business negotiation / Jill Kleinberg -- Roles of knowledge and "cross-knowledge" in creating a third culture : an example of performance appraisal in a Japanese corporation in New York / Noriya Sumihara -- Rice-paper ceiling in Japanese companies : why it exists and persists / Rochelle Kopp -- National origin and the development of organizational capabilities : the case of international human resource management in two Japanese MNCs / Sully Taylor -- Labor-management relations in the Japanese consumer electronics maquiladoras / Martin Kenney ... [and others] -- When performance does not matter : human resource management in Japanese-owned U.S. affiliates / Vladimir Pucik -- Globalization of pharmaceutical research and development in Japanese companies : organizational learning and the parent-subsidiary relationship / David T. Methé and Joan D. Penner-Hahn -- Working together, but how? The need for intercultural awareness / John Kidd -- Organizational learning in Japanese overseas affiliates / Allan Bird, Sully Taylor, and Schon Beechler.