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Here I employed an innovative research approach by combining traditional research sources with accounts of restructuring as found in online diaries blogs. In their online diaries employees provide vivid accounts of experience at their work places and talk about their concerns and motivations in an employment system that is showing signs of grave changes.

In this project I looked at employee perspectives on three areas, the downsizing of corporations, changes in employment conditions for regular employees and the increasing number of non-regularly employed people and substantiated the findings from blog accounts through survey results from Japanese government agencies and think tanks. In the study of the Japanese distribution system I am looking at several areas: The first area is the development of Japanese retail formats.

In my book " Dynamics and Innovation in Japanese Retailing details see below I trace the development of retail formats in Japan from the s, beginning with the introduction of techniques such as self-service and chain management and leading to the conceptualization of food supermarkets, general merchandising stores, drug stores, home centers, and convenience stores. In looking at these developments I find it of special importance to look at changes in the environment.

For Japan emphasis has to be given to governmental distribution policy and I have especially looked at the political economy of the retail sector. Another major factor are manufacturer-retailer relationships.

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Japanese manufacturers have long strived for a dominance of their distribution channels and were slow in accepting mass-merchandisers as legitimate sales channels for their products. Since the s various changes have occurred in the relationship between retailers and manufacturers and I have tried to analyze these changes at an early stage. However, developments in retailing cannot be explained without looking at entrepreneurial initiative and as in other countries Japan's retail sector has produced its fare share of entrepreneurs.

I have looked at entrepreneurship in Japanese retailing in the past and today and have found it to be a fascinating area of research with entrepreneurs in this sector being strong and colorful personalities forcefully pursuing not only the growth of their companies but also the diffusion of their retail concepts and philosophies.

I have also looked at the activities of foreign companies in Japan and here especially at how they are trying to drive change in the Japanese distribution system a short outline is here. Within this research I focused on the marketing strategies of Japanese companies for the emerging markets of Southeast Asia. Together with a colleague Jochen Legewie I have led a project that looked at strategies of Japanese and European companies in Southeast Asia and have edited the book Corporate Strategies for Southeast Asia after the Crisis , myself focusing especially on issues of marketing.

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I have also done additional work on Japanese retailers in Southeast Asia. Publications Selection For details and table of contents please click on book covers. Dynamik im japanischen Einzelhandel.

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Introduction and Development of New Retail Formats J apans Wirtschaft im Umbruch. Spotlights from the German Institute for Japanese Studies. Editor with Jochen Legewie.

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Articles and Book Chapters. Social Science Japan Journal , 21 9 , pp. Japanese retailers in Southeast Asia: Flexibilisierung des japanischen Arbeitsmarkts: Flexibilisation of the Japanese labor market - employment opportunities for the young and the old, but at what price? Thomson Learning , pp.

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