Management Integration Through Software Applications: Japanese Manufacturing Firms in the UK...

Through the 1970s to the present time the governance of the Japanese firm overseas has changed, moving towards a more international form of operation rather than operating as a peripheral organisation based solidly on the Japanese headquarters office. Notwithstanding the evolution of their formal and informal management structures this research questions in detail the nature of computer software that may have been imported from Japan to the UK to control imported production systems and/or to control management data flows. This research stems from noting in the 1980s that imported