Japanese MNCs’ Global Leadership Challenges: Why Cultural and Emotional Intelligence Matter and Why They Do Not Have Enough of Them?
Abstract
The chapter introduces two case studies highlighting the significant difficulties many Japanese multinational corporations (MNCs) have faced in recent years. They reveal misalignment between global strategies, cross-border organizational structures, and such organizational capabilities as comparative management perspectives and cross-cultural communication based on compassion and mindfulness. In doing so, the chapter presents the much broader underlying issue of the embeddedness of firms in their home institutions and the influence of those institutions on their strategies, organizational structures, and capabilities.
Fields of Study & Subjects
Global and Cross-Cultural Management
International Student and Expatriate Challenges
International Business and FDI
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Emerald Group Publishing Limited eBooks
- Pages
- 101–113
- Publication date
- 10 January 2026
- Language
- EN
- Document type
- Book chapter