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Introduction

In: Control and Coordination of Subsidiaries in Japanese Corporate Groups

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  • Akira Mitsumasu

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Most newspaper and business magazine articles on strategic moves of large corporations, tend to mention that corporations have full control over their activities, enabling them to invest in new businesses or refocusing on core ones. Given that there are hundreds of subsidiaries of large Japanese corporations, and a daunting task of coordinating masses of activities across organizations, one begins to wonder just how much control there really is? How do companies manage their subsidiaries? And more fundamentally, why do many large Japanese companies choose to pursue such a strategy…

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  • Akira Mitsumasu, 2015. "Introduction," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Control and Coordination of Subsidiaries in Japanese Corporate Groups, chapter 1, pages 1-3, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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