Cultural Translation of Management Philosophy in Asian Companies

Izumi Mitsui is a Professor of Business Administration at Nihon University, College of Economics. She was a Professor of Management Philosophy at Tezukayama University. She also taught at Fukushima University and was a Visiting Fellow at Yale School of Organization and Management. She holds a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Aoyamagakuin University.  She is a board member of The Academy of Management Philosophy (Japan), and Vice President of The Society for the History of Management Theories (Japan). Her research interests are the comparative study of the western and eastern management philosophy, and the history of management thought.

• Chapter 1. What is Cultural Translation of Management Philosophy?.- Chapter 2. Honda Motor Co., Ltd.'s overseas expansion and the transmission of its management philosophy: The power to realize the "dream".- Chapter 3. The Creation of a Corporate Philosophy in a JapaneseE-Commerce Company: A Case Study of Rakuten.- Chapter 4. Changes to the Corporate Philosophy in Response to Corporate Globalization: A case study of globalization in Olympus.- Chapter 5. Transmission of Management Philosophy: Beyond the Differences in Customs and Norms in Foreign Cultures.- Chapter 6. The Philosophy of the Yakult Group and its Propagator, The Yakult Lady.- Chapter 7. A Sociological Approach to Management Philosophy of Chinese Family Businesses in a Tran-sition Period: The case of Ningbo Fotile Group.- Chapter 8. Practicing the Company Philosophy to Survive: The Competitive World of Samsung Group.- Chapter 9. Asian Financial Crisis and LG Electronics Paradigm Shift.- Index.