Global Business Strategy

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.

• 1. Introduction: Needs for New Global Strategies.- Part I. Global Business Strategy.- 2. Management Strategies for Global Businesses.- 3. Changes in the Global Economic Environment.- 4. Comparison of Economic Institutions in China and India.- 5. New Business Model as Response to Competition from Emerging Economies.- 6. India’s Neemrana Industrial Park for Japanese Firms.- Part II. Fundamentals Of Strategic Planning.- 7. Alliance-based Global Strategy.- 8. Hitachi Construction Machinery: Becoming a Wholly Owned Chinese Entity.- 9. Marketing Theory in Global Business Context.- 10. Shiseido Marketing in China.- 11. International R&D Management.- 12. Multinationals’ R&D in China and India.- 13. Thailand’s National Science and Technology Development Agency and Japanese Firms.- 14. Suzuki Motor’s Expansion in India.- 15. Strategy Integration at the Global Level.