Global Business Strategy ― Multinational Corporations Venturing into Emerging Markets

This book presents theoretical ideas and case studies for corporations in developed nations, including Japan, for designing strategies to maximize opportunities and minimize threats in business expansion into developing nations. The case studies featured here focus on Asia, including China and India, and use examples of Japanese manufacturers. Five case studies are provided, including Hitachi construction machinery and Shiseido in China and Multi Suzuki in India, which allows you to understand business environment in emerging economies. This is recommended for business people, in charge of international business development, particularly in China and India. In addition, this book can be used as a text book for graduate level course of international management as well.

Kazuyuki Motohashi is a professor in the Department of Resilience Engineering Research Center and Technology Management for Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo. Until this year, he had held various positions at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) of the Japanese Government, and served as an economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and an associate professor at Hitotsubashi University. His research interests cover a broad range of issues in economic and statistical analysis of innovation, including economic impacts of information technology, international comparison of productivity, global infrastructure business strategy, and national innovation systems focusing on science and industry linkages and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) innovation and entrepreneurship policy. Dr. Motohashi earned a Master of Engineering degree from The University of Tokyo, an MBA from Cornell University, and a Ph.D. in business and commerce from Keio University.