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White paper · November 2026 · 30 pages

Between Headquarters and Japan

Seven tensions that cost European companies performance in Japan, and what it takes to resolve them. Free to download for our 20th year.

Cover of the white paper Between Headquarters and Japan

What you find in it

  • The seven tensions between a European headquarters and its Japan unit, each with what works against it.
  • Why the strategy is usually sound and the implementation is not, and why culture is a factor to manage, not an excuse.
  • 24 questions for your next management meeting.

Drawing on dozens of organisational fitness checks and a screening of more than 250 studies, surveys and reports. Foreword by David Syrad, Dr. Tilo Schmid-Sehl and Markus Schädlich.

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