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"This book is essential reading for anyone interested in cross-border mergers and acquisitions. It offers exclusive insights into Japanese overseas acquisitions obtained from extensive research into over 100 actual outbound transactions. The author explores why many of these deals have failed and what works for success. Matsumoto's innovative approach to analyzing post-acquisition management strategy not only contributes to academic achievement, but will also assist CEOs who are pursing overseas acquisitions."--Kazumasa Iwata, Professor Emeritus, the University of Tokyo, President, Japan Center for Economic Research and Former Deputy Governor, the Bank of Japan This book reviews the past 116 Japanese outbound acquisitions in three decades and determines success and failure, with the goal of explaining what works. Dr. Matsumoto emphasizes that such acquisitions are part of a long-term strategy and should not be judged based short-term gains and losses, especially short-term changes in company stock prices. The book also highlights common pitfalls hidden within the expected benefits of these overseas acquisitions. Dr. Matsumoto provides valuable insights for executives, corporate managers working on strategy, finance and overseas development, practitioners, researchers and MBA students trying to succeed in cross border merger and acquisitions using 16 case studies and careful investigation. Shigeru Matsumoto, Professor, Graduate School of Management, Kyoto University, earned his Ph. D. from Kobe University. For his doctoral dissertation, he conducted an in-depth study of Japanese cross-border M & A. He also has an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management, which he attended on the US Fulbright Program. He has 20 years' of experience in investment banking and advisory at global institutions, including HSBC (The Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corp.), Macquarie Capital, and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). He has served as an advisor on over 50 Japan-related cross-border M & A transactions in 20 countries, including the US, the UK, France, China, and Vietnam. In 2015, he won the 9th Grand Prize at the Mergers & Acquisition Forum for his recent publication on Japanese cross-border acquisitions

Globalizing suburbia -- A town of immigrants -- Community and communities -- Strategies of assimilation and distinction -- Accommodating "others" -- Remaking Asian ethnicity in suburbia -- Reconsidering assimilation and ethnicity in the American suburb.

Preface -- Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Numerical Analysis -- Optimization -- Dynamic Systems Including Simulations -- Game Theory and Oligopoly Theory -- Industrial Applications -- Economics -- Contributions -- Operations Research -- Developments on the Convergence of Some Iterative Methods -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Preliminaries -- 3 Semilocal Convergence -- 4 Local Convergence -- 5 Numerical Examples -- References -- The Non-symmetric L-Nash Bargaining Solution -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Preliminaries -- 3 The Main Result -- 4 Example -- 5 Discussion -- References -- 3 Analyzing the Impact of Process Improvement on Lot Sizes in JIT Environment When Capacity Utilization Follows Beta Distribution -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Model with Beta Distribution -- 3 The Impact of Process Improvement on Lot Sizes and Total Costs When x\thinspace \ge \thinspace ky -- 4 Estimating the Impact of Process Quality Improvement on the Variance of the Minimum Total Annual Cost -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- 4 Exploring Efficient Reward Strategies to Encourage Large-Scale Cooperation Among Boundedly Rational Players with the Risk and Impact of the Public Good -- Abstract -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Payoffs of Being a Cooperator and a Defector with Rewards in a Public Goods Game -- 3 Large-Scale Cooperation with the Risk and Impact of the Public Good -- 3.1 Behavioral Game-Theoretic Decision Model -- 3.2 The Realization of the Public Good with the Rewards -- 4 Individual Reward Strategies Based on Behavioral Game-Theoretic Decision Model -- 5 Conclusions -- References -- Dynamics -- Periodicity Induced by Production Constraints in Cournot Duopoly Models with Unimodal Reaction Curves -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Constrained Cournot-Rand Model with Piecewise Linear Reaction Functions

Do street children go to school, and if not, why not? What kind of education can be 'meaningful' to young people affected by conflict? The contributors explore groups of children and young people who have no, or very limited, educational opportunities in various contexts, including Vietnam, Ukraine, the UK, the USA, and India. They explore a number of educational initiatives that have contributed to improving the lives of disadvantaged children, drawing on the perceptions and experiences of disadvantaged children and young people themselves. Each chapter contains contemporary questions to encourage active engagement with the material and an annotated list of suggested reading to support further exploration.

The indisputable fact of Japan's rapidly aging population has been known for some time. But beyond statistics and implications for the future, we do not know much about the actual aging process. Senior citizens and their varied experiences have, for the most part, been obscured by stereotypes. This fascinating new collection of research on the elderly works to put a human face on aging by considering multiple dimensions of the aging experience in Japan. Faces of Aging foregrounds a spectrum of elder-centered issues-social activity, caregiving, generational bias, suicide, sexuality, and communi

This paper analyzes the role of nonseparable utility and nontradables in business cycles and portfolio choice. I find that nonseparability in utility can change the portfolio choice significantly. Unlike previous results in literature, the optimal portfolio of the traded-good sector equities is no longer a well diversified portfolio and becomes sensitive to parameter values. As a result, the model often generates extreme home bias or anti-home bias portfolios implying that some frictions in asset markets, which prevent agents from holding these extreme portfolios, can explain the lack of inter

Die Studie von Herrn Matsumoto vermittelt deutschen Lesern einen Überblick über das japanische Sozialversicherungsrecht. Ihre Einzigartigkeit liegt in der Perspektive, die dabei eingenommen wird: Über aktuelle Reformen in Japan wird vor dem Hintergrund der Reformen in Deutschland berichtet. Das ermöglicht nicht nur einen Vergleich der in Deutschland und Japan jeweils eingeschlagenen Wege. Sondern es eröffnet sich dem deutschen Leser, der "sein" Recht zu kennen glaubt, ein ganz neuer Blickwinkel auf dieses Recht, nämlich der des ausländischen Beobachters von außen.