Works
- Japanese spinoffs: unexplored survival strategies, Strategic Management Journal 16(6), 431 to 446, 1995
In Organizational Structures
Known for
Research on Japanese corporate spinoffs
Ideas
The spinoff as a Japanese growth instrument. Analyzing Japanese firms' spinoffs as an instrument of corporate growth, Ito argued that spinoffs may be created to balance the costs of managing diversified businesses, to grow on core competencies, and to pursue an efficient internal labor market, and that in a changing environment the spinoff has been a widely used flexible arrangement and an alternative way to diversify. Caveat: The sample is not stated in the abstract.