Some human management aspects of M&A in Japan - obstacles and opportunities offered to foreign companies

• Main Author: Debroux, Philippe
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Utara Malaysia 1997
• Subjects: HD28 Management. Industrial Management
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/861/1/Philippe%2C_Debroux.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/861/; http://mmj.uum.edu.my

Out-in mergers and acquisitions activities in Japan have gradually increased but stay at a level extremely low compared with the situation in the Western World. Regulatory aspects remain important to explain this, but despite rapid changes in the socio-cultural environment, some idiosyncracies resulting from the concept of company remain. Japan is undertaking rapid socio-cultural changes and we should avoid being dragged into past perceptions far away from the modern reality. Nevertheless, as these characteristics lead, even today in a period of transition, to different management rules and labour attitudes and behaviour, they should still be considered with great care when doing business in Japan.