Welcome to the 1990s; Japanese business.(Japan's electronics conglomerates discover focus)(Brief Article)(Industry Overview)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: October 12, 2002 | Copyright information

At last, Japan's electronics conglomerates discover focus

JAPAN remains the land of the conglomerate. Its leading electronics firms are known, with good reason, as the "big five". Unlike Europe and America, where most electronics firms have split the design and manufacturing sides of their businesses and narrowed their focus, Japan still trudges on with five vertically integrated electronics giants. They do everything from making the chips that go into electronic devices...

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