The horizontally and vertically linked industrial structure of Japan´s private economy. Horizontally linked groups include a broad range of industries linked by banks and trading companies. Vertically linked groups are centered around parent companies, with subsidiaries frequently serving as suppliers,…
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A set of financial and non-financial values used to measure the success of an organization or a particular activity, e.g. a project or contract deliverables.
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Knowledge of how to do something, expertise. In international trade, Know-how can be defined as confidentially in the form of unpatented inventions, designs, drawings, procedures and methods, together with accumulated skills and experience in the hands of a licensor firm’s professional…
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