Publications on Japanese business have decreased as Japan continued to experience slow economic growth and fell behind other countries in competitiveness. While implementation of “Abenomics” policies has resulted in some encouraging economic growth, Japan faces additional challenges stemming from demographic change and globalization. These environmental trends along with technological change including digitalization and artificial intelligence appear likely to transform Japanese business and Japanese managerial practice as we know them, presenting new opportunities to learn from Japan. In this special issue, we reflect on the impact of past research on Japanese management, present several studies with implications about how Japanese business is changing, and pose questions for future research.

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日本管理研究的过去和未来贡献

由于日本经济增长持续放缓，竞争力落后于其他国家，有关日本商业的出版物有所减少。虽然“安倍经济学”政策的实施带来了一些令人鼓舞的经济增长，但日本面临着来自人口变化和全球化的额外挑战。这些环境趋势以及包括数字化和人工智能在内的技术变革似乎可能改变我们所了解的日本商业和日本管理实践，提供向日本学习的新机会。在本期特刊中，我们回顾了过去研究对日本管理的影响，展示了几项对日本商业如何变化有影响的研究，并为未来的研究提出了问题。