Editor-in Chief
Professor Yasuhiro Monden (Professor Emeritus of Tsukuba University, Japan)

Managing Editors
Henry Aigbedo (Oakland University, USA)
Kazuki Hamada (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)
Shufuku Hiraoka (Soka University; Japan)
Mahfuzul Hoque (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Noriko Hoshi (Hakuoh University, Japan)
Tomonori Inooka (Kokushikan University, Japan)
Chao Hsiung Lee (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
Gunyung Lee (Niigata University, Japan)
Yoshiyuki Nagasaka (Konan University, Japan)

Editorial Advisory Board
Mohammad Aghdassi (Tarbiat Modarres University, Iran)
Mahmuda Akter (University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Takayuki Asada (Osaka University, Japan)
Takahiro Fujimoto (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Péter Horvá¡th (University Stuttgart, Germany)
Arnd Huchzermeier (WHU Koblenz, Germany)
Christer Karlsson (Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
Masanobu Kosuga (Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan)
Bruce Henry Lambert (Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship, Sweden)
Rolf G Larsson (Växjö University, Sweden)
John Y Lee (Pace University, USA)
Jose Antonio Dominguez Machuca (University of Sevilla, Spain)
Kenneth A Merchant (University of Southern California, USA)
Yoshiteru Minagawa (Nagoya Gakuin University, Japan)
Kanji Miyamoto (Osaka Gakuin University, Japan)
Tengku Akbar Tengku Abdullah (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia)
Jimmy Y T Tsay (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Susumu Ueno (Konan University, Japan)
Eri Yokota (Keio University, Japan)
Walid Zaramdini (UAE University, United Arab Emirates)


Japanese companies have been struggling under severe depression for the past ten years, but recently the bad loans of the banking section have been much removed or improved and at the same time the borrowing companies (debtors) are also revived these days. This book series discusses the management systems of “Japanese” companies recently developed. That is, the new Japanese-type management or new management systems developed in Japan will be examined to inform readers of Japanese strategic behaviors, management controls and operations management, and further the systems to promote actual achievement of goals and to evaluate the performance. The management systems originally developed in other countries are also examined from the viewpoints of Japanese applications. When foreign researchers or practitioners submit their papers to us, their oversea practices and systems will be included as comparative studies with Japanese systems.

The subjects to be included are management systems of organizations in a broad sense (including an inter-organizational network, etc.) and especially managerial accounting systems that support the organizations. They include topics of business strategy, organizational reform, corporate finance, M&A, environmental management, business models, operations management, managerial & financial accounting, performance evaluation & rewards systems for the managers, and revenue & cost management techniques, etc. The research methodology is interdisciplinary, which includes case studies, theoretical and empirical studies.

Themes to be covered by the series:

• Restoration of Japanese Companies
• How Bad-Loans are Removed and Companies Restored in Japan
• Japanese Corporate Governance
• Project Management Systems of Japanese firms
• Organizational Reforms of Japanese Firms
• Cases of Financial Reforms and Business Reforms in Japanese Firms
• Success of Mini-Profit Centers in Japan
• Japanese Holding Companies
• Japanese Intra-Company Systems
• Intangible Assets and Corporate Brand in Japan
• Financial Accounting Standards of Japan
• Design of Global Management Systems of Japanese Firms
• Shared Services and Outsourcing in Japan
• Sustainable Business Excellence in Japan
• Japanese Management Accounting
• Performance Evaluation Systems of Japanese Firms
• Japanese Corporate Finance
• Value-Based Business Models of Japanese Firms
• Success of Major Japanese Companies: Toyota, Matsushita, Canon and Sharp
• Innovations in Matsushita Electric: Its organizational Reform and Managerial Accounting
• Toyota Production Systems Nowadays in Japan and Overseas
• Cellular Manufacturing Systems in Japan
• Process Management of Japanese Firms in the Age of IT
• Knowledge Management of Japanese Firms
• B to B and B to C of Japanese Companies
• Engineering-Chain and Supply-Chain Management in Japan
• Environmental Management Accounting in Japan
• Target Cost Management of Japanese Firms
• Present-Day Japanese Cost Management

To contribute to this book series, contact editor@wspc.com

Published titles

Vol. 1
Value-Based Management of the Rising Sun (Japan)
edited by Yasuhiro Monden, Kanji Miyamoto, Kazuki Hamada, Gunyung Lee & Takayuki Asada

Vol. 2
Japanese Management Accounting Today
edited by Yasuhiro Monden, Masanobu Kosuga, Yoshiyuki Nagasaka, Shufuku Hiraoka & Noriko Hoshi

Vol. 3
Japanese Project Management
KPM — Innovation, Development and Improvement
edited by Shigenobu Ohara & Takayuki Asada

Vol. 4
International Management Accounting in Japan
Current Status of Electronics Companies
edited by Kanji Miyamoto

Vol. 5
Business Process Management of Japanese and Korean Companies
edited by Gunyung Lee, Masanobu Kosuga, Yoshiyuki Nagasaka & Byungkyu Sohn

Vol. 6
M&A for Value Creation in Japan
edited by Yasuyoshi Kurokawa

Vol. 7
Business Group Management in Japan
edited by Kazuki Hamada

Vol. 8
Management of an Inter-Firm Network
edited by Yasuhiro Monden

Forthcoming title

Vol. 9
Management of Service Businesses in Japan
edited by Yasuhiro Monden, Noriyuki Imai, Takami Matsuo & Naoya Yamaguchi

Copyright © 2012 World Scientific Publishing Co. All rights reserved.
Updated on 24 May 2012