I The Societal and Economic Outlook 1 Why Japan's digital transformation
is inevitable (Anshuman Khare, Kriti Khare and William W. Baber)2 Rating
Japan's Readiness for an Evolving Digital Economy (Jerry Platt)3 Digital
Transformation Execution in Japan (Kieran Gane)4 Digital Transformation
challenges in the Japanese Financial Sector: A practitioner's
perspective (Raja Karim)5 The Japanese B2C Retail Industry in the
Digital Age (Philippe Huysveld)6 Does the Japanese Work Ethic Conflict
with the needs of Retail in the Digital Era? (Hiroki Ishikura and
Anshuman Khare)II Innovations in Businesses7 Business Model Innovation:
A Japanese SME driven to full digitalization by corporate philosophy
(William W. Baber, Makoto Sarata and Muga Tsukamoto)8 A Study of a
Three-part Entrepreneurial Strategy in an MRO e-Procurement Platform in
Japan (Yutaka Mizuno and Nobutaka Odake)9 The Beginnings of Automated
Loan Decisioning During Japan's Lost Decades ? The Case of Gate Finance
(James Howard10 Innovation of Small and Medium-sized Manufacturers in
the Digital Age (Nobutaka Odake)11 Digitalization and evolution of
business model pathways among Japanese software SMEs William W. Baber,
Arto Ojala and Ricardo Martinez)12 Digital Disruption in Japanese Market
Research: Disrupters and a Startup Connecting Incumbents with New
Technology (Genjiro Kosaka)13 Recovery from Significant Adversity: How
Japanese Retailers Deal with Digital Disruption (Katrin Horn and Sierk
Horn)14 Foreign investors' acceptance and usage of PropTech in the
Japanese real estate market Daniel J. Mills and David Gotsill)III The
Future 15 Artificial Intelligence in Japan: Policy, prospects and
obstacles in the automotive industry (Faith Hatani)16 The Evolution and
Strategic Operations Perspective on 3D Printing ? The Global and
Japanese Experience (Abubaker Haddud, Anshuman Khare and Hiroki
Ishikura)17 The future of Fintech in the context of the Japanese main
bank system (Kanji Kitamura)Index
