Management Education in Japan (Electronic book text)

The changing nature of education and training systems in Japanese firms is reviewed with focus on developments of management education in Japanese universities. Based on a contextual model, this book examines whether the MBA education system in the Japanese business schools is useful for human resource development in Japanese firms and discusses the importance of developments of Japanese-specific methods of management education.
New research topics: few studies focussing on Japanese management educationSystematic and critical review of the up-to-date literature on management educationEmpirical evidence: interview data collected both from HR directors/managers and from employees who belongs to an MBA course