By Ralf Bebenroth
This e-book sheds mild on how Japan-based German enterprises handled the impression of the nice East Japan Earthquake that happened in March 2011. to assemble facts, a questionnaire used to be built and despatched out in April 2012 to 244 German subsidiaries established within the Kanto quarter, regularly in Tokyo, with replies bought from the head managers of eighty four corporations. furthermore, the writer performed follow-up interviews with most sensible managers of 14 of these organizations in Tokyo to light up attention-grabbing elements of the responses given within the questionnaires. it's proven that the general impression at the functionality of German companies used to be relatively low. these organisations have now again to basic operation and face fairly few disaster-related difficulties. notwithstanding, businesses with greater autonomy extra usually moved their workplaces both to the Kansai sector, together with Osaka, Kobe and Kyoto, or no less than quickly closed down. on reflection, the interviews made transparent that moving or postponing operations was once a high priced mistake. unlike transaction price idea, which states that subsidiaries will be given excessive autonomy in such situations of emergency, it can were greater for the headquarters places of work to have communicated extra intensively with the administration in their subsidiaries.
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