The great East Japan earthquake and its impact on German firms [electronic resource] : an empirical study / Ralf Bebenroth.
Bebenroth, Ralf, author.
2014
HV600 2011 T64
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Title The great East Japan earthquake and its impact on German firms [electronic resource] : an empirical study / Ralf Bebenroth.
Author Bebenroth, Ralf, author.
ISBN 9784431544517 electronic book
4431544518 electronic book
9784431544500
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54451-7
Published Tokyo ; New York : Springer, [2014]
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 52 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-4-431-54451-7 doi
Call Number HV600 2011 T64
Dewey Decimal Classification 658.4092
Summary 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. In contrast 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 more intensively with the management of their subsidiaries.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 21, 2013).
Series SpringerBriefs in business.
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Disaster Impact
Subsidiary Autonomy and Expatriate Retreat
Subsidiary Dependency on Expatriate Departure and Headquarter Trouble
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