Dear colleagues, hope this email finds you well. Are you interested in Japan, Japanese business and management? Is Japan hot or not? What's the future of Japanese business? Check out our just published special issue with contributions from distinguished and emerging scholars, e.g. Shige Makino, Eleanor Westney, Mike Kotabe, Tomoki Sekiguchi, Derek Lehmberg, Hideaki Sakawa, Kiyohiro Oki, Genjiro Kosaka. Enjoy! Asian Business & Management<https://link.springer.com/journal/41291> Volume 19, Issue 1, February 2020 Special Issue: Japanese Business 1. Editorial The past and future contributions of research on Japanese management<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41291-019-00101-2> Shige Makino<https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Shige+Makino%22>, Derek Lehmberg<https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Derek+Lehmberg%22>Pages 1-7 Download PDF (504KB)<https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2Fs41291-019-00101-2.pdf> View Article<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41291-019-00101-2/fulltext.html> 2. Perspectives Reflecting on Japan's contributions to management theory<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41291-019-00079-x> Eleanor Westney<https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Eleanor+Westney%22>Pages 8-24 Download PDF (482KB)<https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2Fs41291-019-00079-x.pdf> View Article<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41291-019-00079-x/fulltext.html> 3. Perspective Japanese management and the climate of the time<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41291-019-00078-y> Masaaki Kotabe<https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Masaaki+Kotabe%22>Pages 25-35 Download PDF (500KB)<https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2Fs41291-019-00078-y.pdf> View Article<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41291-019-00078-y/fulltext.html> 4. Original Article The vertical keiretsu advantage in the era of Westernization in the Japanese automobile industry: investigation from transaction cost economics and a resource-based view<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41291-019-00074-2> Genjiro Kosaka<https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Genjiro+Kosaka%22>, Koichi Nakagawa<https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Koichi+Nakagawa%22>, Seiji Manabe<https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Seiji+Manabe%22>...Pages 36-61 Download PDF (815KB)<https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2Fs41291-019-00074-2.pdf> View Article<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41291-019-00074-2/fulltext.html> 5. Original Article Main bank relationship and accounting conservatism: evidence from Japan<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41291-019-00071-5> Hideaki Sakawa<https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Hideaki+Sakawa%22>, Naoki Watanabel<https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Naoki+Watanabel%22>Pages 62-85 Download PDF (880KB)<https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2Fs41291-019-00071-5.pdf> View Article<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41291-019-00071-5/fulltext.html> 6. Original Article Factory performance and decision-making authority between headquarters, expatriates, and local employees in Japanese MNCs in Southeast Asia<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41291-018-00054-y> Kiyohiro Oki<https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Kiyohiro+Oki%22>Pages 86-117 Download PDF (864KB)<https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2Fs41291-018-00054-y.pdf> View Article<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41291-018-00054-y/fulltext.html> 7. Original Article Attractiveness of Japanese firms to international job applicants: the effects of belongingness, uniqueness, and employment patterns<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41291-019-00068-0> Liang Huang<https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Liang+Huang%22>, Yunyue Yang<https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Yunyue+Yang%22>, Tomoki Sekiguchi<https://link.springer.com/search?facet-creator=%22Tomoki+Sekiguchi%22>Pages 118-144 Download PDF (822KB)<https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1057%2Fs41291-019-00068-0.pdf> View Article<https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41291-019-00068-0/fulltext.html> Best regards, Fabian ***** Fabian Jintae FROESE, Ph.D., Dr. oec. Professor and Chair of HRM and Asian Business University of Goettingen, Platz der Goettinger Sieben 5, 37085 Goettingen, Germany Tel: +49 551 3920491, Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>, www.hrm.uni-goettingen.de<http://www.hrm.uni-goettingen.de/> Twitter<https://twitter.com/FroeseFabian> / LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabian-froese-27767b25/> / Google scholar<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FWJ38N0AAAAJ&hl=de&oi=ao> / Researchgate<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Fabian_Froese> Editor-in-chief of Asian Business & Management<http://www.palgrave.com/gb/journal/41291> Chair (president) of Academy of International Business<https://aib.msu.edu/> Western Europe President of the Association of Japanese Business Studies<https://ajbs.org/About_AJBS.php> Associate editor of International Journal of Human Resource Management<https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rijh20/current> ____ AIB-L is brought to you by the Academy of International Business. 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