How Do Global Companies Conduct Group Management? —A Case of Japanese Companies—

Abstract

The form of management of group companies and organizational design depends on the business model. When the distribution of customers and a supply chain crosses country and international regions, management tends to be complicated.

When a company expands global business by M & A, it is a particularly important to carry out “ask, entrust and responsible management” with a clear role sharing system with a common management format. It is also desirable that the system and the evaluation of the result are directly connected as well. In addition, we point the inclusions of foreign executives and direct communications with the top management are also important points of view. In this paper, we study what kind of things we should pay attention to when conducting a global management throughout the cases of the Japanese global companies.