Value-based Management Of The Rising Sun
Value-based Management Of The Rising Sun

Author: Yasuhiro Monden

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2006-07-07

Total Pages: 528

ISBN-13: 9814472956

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This book provides critical information on a wide selection of cases and theories that detail reforms and innovations in Japanese companies, in their decade-long struggle to recover from the 1991 bubble burst. It examines the Japanese concept of business value, business restructuring, organizational redesign and new business models.The book is unique in that the technique and models described are all originally developed in Japan. It will serve as a useful reference source for companies looking for ways to rejuvenate their businesses.

Management, Uncertainty, and Accounting
Management, Uncertainty, and Accounting

Author: Akira Nishimura

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-07-23

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9811089892

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This book is a capstone to the magisterial career of one of Japan's most senior scholars of risk, accounting, and management. How can companies and organizations navigate today's world, rife with unexpected challenges and opportunities? In this trenchant book, Nishimura offers case studies, theoretical models, and useful strategies for the new normal. This book will be useful to scholars, businesspeople, and bankers.

Japanese Management Accounting Today
Japanese Management Accounting Today

Author: Yasuhiro Monden

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9812779736

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This book investigates how different types of Japanese management systems are able to motivate stakeholders, including employees, top management, stockholders, customers and transaction partners, to participate actively in the organizational behavior that improves business performance. The various systems motivating stakeholders are examined in five sections: Strategy and Business Restructuring for Enhancing the Business Value; Management Control Systems and Budgeting; Cost Management; Management Accounting for Supply Chain and Shared Services; and Process Management. Sample Chapter(s). Part 1:1: How Japanese Legal and Accounting Rules Can Facilitate Business Group Restructuring (671 KB). Contents: Strategy and Business Restructuring to Enhancing Business Value: How Japanese Legal and Accounting Rules Can Facilitate Business Group Restructuring (Y Monden & Y Monden); Changes in the Concept of Capital and Their Effects on Economic Profit in Japan (S Hiraoka); Management Control Systems and Budgeting: Analysis of the Influence of Performance-Based Systems on Japanese Management Control (E Yokota); Questionnaire Survey on the International Financial Control Affecting the Responsibility Accounting of Overseas Subsidiaries (M Tomo); Cost Management: The Role of OC Hidden CostOCO in Cost Management (S Kon); Target Costing Brings Another Competitive Edge: Creation of Capacity Surplus through Information Capital Readiness by IT (Y Ogushi); Management Accounting for Supply Chain and Shared Services: Allocation of Joint Profit among Supply Chain Companies: Application of Core Theory (M Imabayashi); Characteristics of Japanese Shared Service Centers (T Sonoda); Process Management: Chain Effect among Objectives under Management by Objectives (N Ogura & S Nibuya); The Framework of Business Process Management and Dell Computers (G Lee & N Yamaguchi); and other papers. Readership: University students, researchers, and professionals and practitioners in business and management fields."

Business Group Management in Japan
Business Group Management in Japan

Author: Kazuki Hamada

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9814289515

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Pt. 1. Accounting information for group management and management control system. Management accounting information for consolidated group management / Kazuki Hamada. Management control system of Japanese pure holding companies / Makoto Tomo, Makoto Yori and Takayuki Asada -- pt. 2. M & A including MBO and outsourcing for group reformation. Influence of M & A on financial performance : measuring the performance of M & A from sustainability of utility / Kozo Suzuki. Management buyout of a Japanese business group / Naoyuki Kaneda. Managerial significance of strategic outsourcing / Shunzo Matsuoka. Acquisition price as an incentive price of M & A / Yasuhiro Monden -- pt. 3. Analysis of accounting information for consolidated and business group and segmental business units. Consolidated accounting information for business group management / Manabu Takano. Business evaluation of a company group in Japan : A case study of segment reporting by Panasonic Electric Works / Shufuku Hiraoka -- pt. 4. Management of inter-firm relations. How can management accounting achieve goal congruence among supply chain partners? / Yoshiteru Minagawa. How to maintain the bargaining position defined in Toyota's dealership control / Hiroshi Ozawa. Royalties and profit sharing : Focusing on Seven-Eleven Japan Co., Ltd. / Noriko Hoshi. Factors influencing control mechanisms in joint ventures : Evidence from Japanese manufacturing industries / Yuichi Kubota. Does inter-firm cooperation contribute to the performance of Japanese firms? Concept of incentive price for motivating inter-firm cooperation / Yasuhiro Monden -- pt. 5. Inter-organizational learning and autonomous organizations. Management of population-level learning and inter-organizational relations in Japan / Hiroki Kondo. Management control system in an empowered organization / Katsuhiro Ito

M & A for Value Creation in Japan
M & A for Value Creation in Japan

Author: Yasuyoshi Kurokawa

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9814287474

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1. Accounting problems encountered in M&As / Yasuyoshi Kurokawa -- 2. A study of goodwill and intangible fixed asset on business combination : pharmaceutical companies in Japan / Yujiro Okura -- 3. The method of payment in takeovers and earnings management / Kunimaru Takahashi -- 4. Income smoothing and the just-in-time system in the Japanese automobile industry / Michio Kunimura -- 5. M&A and its incentive system for the inter-firm organization / Yasuhiro Monden -- 6. The impact of market inefficiency on TOB in Japan / Tatsushi Yamamoto -- 7. A survey of public-to-private buy-out transactions in Japan / Keiichi Sugiura -- 8. Do M&As in Japan increase shareholder value? / Kotaro Inoue.

Management of Enterprise Crises in Japan
Management of Enterprise Crises in Japan

Author: Yasuhiro Monden

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 9814508519

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This book focuses on various business practices to manage ailing companies during economic depression or in the aftermath of man-made and natural disasters. The methods implemented by various Japanese enterprises, such as Japan Air Line, Tokyo Electricity Company, Nissan and Toyota, to overcome their challenges are elaborated in this book. The scope of the book covers: restructuring under government financial support; private turnaround management of huge conglomerates; reorganization of business domains; accounting for risk management, and robust supply chain management in the aftermath of disasters.

Lean Management Of Global Supply Chain
Lean Management Of Global Supply Chain

Author: Yasuhiro Monden

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2015-08-24

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 9814644994

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This book is the first among many books in supply chain management, which provides the readers with insights on how to select the best global supply chain out of inter-firm network, fables system or market firms. This process is clearly expounded in the book through case studies, which include Apple, Toyota, BMW, IKEA and Taiwan TSMC. The main editor, Prof Yasuhiro Monden, is the founding father of Lean Production Management who published Toyota Production System from IIE in 1983, which is called the classic of Lean System. This book will explain how the global supply chain (GSC) could be organized by considering causal relationships of the stage differences in (1) market needs, (2) product design architecture, and (3) product life-cycle, for the purpose of reducing the total costs of GSC.

Japanese Project Management
Japanese Project Management

Author: Shigenobu Ohara

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 9812778748

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This book provides a comprehensive look at the features of KPM, including its emphasis on creativity and teamwork, its broader OC open value systemOCO as opposed to a OC closed technical systemOCO, its close links with corporate strategy and human resource development, and the support infrastructure needed for advancing KPM. Chapters cover both the theory and practice of KPM, citing cases of information and communications technology (ICT) and pharmaceutical companies, among others. KPM holds special relevance today as global competition is increasingly reducing the lifecycle of organizations. Managers will find in KPM not only a way to survive the shake-up, but also a framework of value creation for the next generation.

Management of Service Businesses in Japan
Management of Service Businesses in Japan

Author: Yasuhiro Monden

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 9814374679

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With the service industry taking up the largest portion of its GDP, Japan has much to share in the area of managing service industry. This book explores and elucidates the unique management styles in non-manufacturing industries or service industries in contemporary Japan, both practically and theoretically through case studies. These specially selected cases are the management of the world No.1 convenience store chain of Seven-Eleven, the sales finance business and auto sales business of Toyota, application of TPS (Toyota Production System) to life insurance company, performance evaluation of local government, BSC (balance scorecard) in local government hospitals, cost and pricing policy of telecommunication company, Japanese-style OC hospitalityOCO in the retail industry, service level agreement (SLA) in IT and shared service companies, and ICT (Information & Communication Technology) applied to BPN (Business Process Network) of service industry.The analyses presented in this book were carefully laid out in regard to the business in general. It will be useful for business practitioners in service industry and beneficial to the scholars, students or general readers interested in this area.

Management of an Inter-firm Network
Management of an Inter-firm Network

Author: Yasuhiro Monden

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 9814324620

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This book focuses especially on financial and/or managerial accounting aspects of inter-firm network in three phases: (1) strategy for forming the inter-firm network; (2) management control of inter-firm network; and (3) task control of production, sales and logistics of inter-firm network.