ABSTRACT

This chapter describes the status of multinational management in 102 manufacturing corporations, the principles derived from it, and the transferability of the Japanese style of management. It provides a discussion on more than twenty Japanese subsidiaries in the USA, the Philippines, Malaysia and the UK, and conducted interviews with Japanese managers and local managers and on the analysis of statistical data. The level of multinational management is not related to the level of diversification or the level of vertical integration of the parent company. Relationship with other International strategy export having two problems which includes: whether multinational management increases or decreases exports, and whether multinational management is an alternative to exports or not. The chapter examines that organization in the USA and in the UK has more mechanistic characteristics and Japanese organization is more organisms.