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Asian Inward and Outward FDI: New Challenges in the Global Economy
- 2014
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Ingår i: Asian Inward and Outward FDI: New Challenges in the Global Economy, ed. by Alvstam, Claes G., Harald Dolles and Patrik Ström. - Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampsshire : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9781137312204 ; , s. 243-248
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- Nakamura, Richard, 1970, et al.
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Digitalization and green economy transition: Smart Cities and Society 5.0
- 2023
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Ingår i: The 39th EAMSA2023 conference.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Originally a vision launched by the Japanese government in 2016, the Smart cities concept or Society 5.0 has attracted attention not only in Japan, but also in the EU in connection to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) of the UN. This development can be seen in the light of increasing climate challenges and the debate on how society needs a broader transformation, aided by digital means, to achieve a sustainable future. The transition has different connotations through policy development and is initiated with both a bottom-up and top-down perspective. In addition, this development coincides with the complexity of technological development and the evolution of society at large. These endeavors are, and will not, develop in an isolated context, but rather through globalization in trade and investment, bringing the economies of Japan and the EU closer together. The recent Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), the Strategic Partnership Agreement (SPA), and the Green Alliance are involving issues such as climate change and connectivity. Using Japan-EU relations and digitalization of the Japanese society as the units for discussion, this paper aims at studying challenges in the economic and business contexts associated with the Smart Cities and Society 5.0 concepts. Developing sustainable society and urban formations based on information and communication technology (ICT) requires a critical assessment on what stakeholders can bring in relation to the transition towards a green economy and how the public sector and private business can contribute in such a transformation. This development relates to the issue of how policy is being developed and anchored within a society.
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- Nakamura, Richard, 1970, et al.
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Japanese Business Reinvention in Europe: The case of Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Association of Japanese Business Studies, AJBS.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- With the turmoil associated with the Brexit vote in 2016, many Japanese MNCs started to prepare for relocating their activities out of the UK. Japanese MNCs had already a long history of investments in Europe. Japanese FDIs, ranging from being natural resource-seeking to strategic asset-seeking investments, to the EU can also be seen as a result of an organizational and managerial reorientation of the Japanese corporate landscape that did start by mid-1990s as a direct result of the bursting of the Bubble economy. In this context, Japanese acquisitions at the periphery of the EU is little known. In this study, we are taking Sweden as an example of a highly developed European industrial nation, home of several world-leading companies. We are analyzing four major Swedish companies acquired by large Japanese MNCs in the 2000s from locational, managerial, and R&D perspectives. Our results suggest that the Japanese parent MNCs have let the acquired Swedish firms be highly autonomous, allowing them to independently decide on operational issues, business decisions and R&D. We observe high level of trust and respect for the Swedish firms’ market and product knowledge and competencies while refraining from a heavy-handed HQ management by control and fiat.
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- Ström, Patrik, 1976, et al.
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Space Oddity – On Managerial Decision Making and Space.
- 2010
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Ingår i: Paper for the 1st International Symposium on Management Geography, Spaces of International Economy and Management, Kyoto, March 24-25.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)
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- Nakamura, Richard, 1970, et al.
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Japanese Economic Engagement With the EU: Geopolitics Meets Business
- 2022
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Ingår i: Journal of Applied Business and Economics. - : North American Business Press. - 1499-691X. ; 24:2, s. 24-39
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- During the recent years the world has experienced a shift towards complex relations being formed in the growinginterlacing between geoeconomics and geopolitics. This paper aims at bringing geoeconomics and geopolitics onthe macroeconomic level together with the potential implications for Japanese firms operating in Europe andmore specifically within the EU Single Market. The paper grounds the analysis within international politicaleconomy, international business and economic geography. This broad, eclectic theoretical foundation enables theanalysis to contribute to a deeper understanding of how firms respond to and potentially drive the politicaldevelopment of trade and investment relations. Hence, the paper strives to examine how geopolitics alter theflows of trade and investments, but also to map a new configuration taking place in parallel on the firm level ofindustrial dynamics and economic geographical footprint.
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