| 書(shū)目名稱(chēng) | The Great East Japan Earthquake and Its Impact on German Firms |
| 副標(biāo)題 | An Empirical Study |
| 編輯 | Ralf Bebenroth |
| 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/911/910885/910885.mp4 |
| 概述 | The first published research to date on the impact on foreign firms of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake.Is relevant to researchers of Japanese economy as well to foreign investors who have an inte |
| 叢書(shū)名稱(chēng) | SpringerBriefs in Business |
| 圖書(shū)封面 |  |
| 描述 | This publication sheds light on how Japan-based German firms dealt with the impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake that occurred in March 2011. To gather data, a questionnaire was developed and sent out in April 2012 to 244 German subsidiaries based in the Kanto area, mainly in Tokyo, with replies received from the top managers of 84 firms. In addition, the author conducted follow-up interviews with top managers of 14 of those firms in Tokyo to illuminate interesting aspects of the responses given in the questionnaires. It is shown that the overall impact on the performance of German firms was comparatively low. Those firms have now returned to normal operation and face relatively few disaster-related problems. However, firms with higher autonomy more frequently moved their offices either to the Kansai area, including Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto, or at least temporarily closed down. In retrospect, the interviews made clear that relocating or suspending operations was a costly mistake. Incontrast to transaction cost theory, which states that subsidiaries should be given high autonomy in such cases of emergency, it would have been better for the headquarters offices to have communicated |
| 出版日期 | Book 2014 |
| 關(guān)鍵詞 | Backlash of Transaction Cost Theory; Great East Japan Earthquake; Influence of Subsidiary Autonomy on |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54451-7 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-4-431-54450-0 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-4-431-54451-7Series ISSN 2191-5482 Series E-ISSN 2191-5490 |
| issn_series | 2191-5482 |
| copyright | Ralf Bebenroth 2014 |
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