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Subject: Case Study - Seven Eleven - Managing a Network Organization
| CASE 25 SEVEN-ELEVEN JAPAN: MANAGING A NETWORK ORGANIZATION I. CASE ABSTRACT As the Executive Manager of New Business Development in the ItoYokado department store and supermarket retail chain, Toshifumi Suzuki negotiated with the U.S. Southland Corporation to open SevenEleven stores in Japan. From its beginning in 1974 with two stores in Tokyo suburbs, Seven-Eleven Japan grew to 6,420 Japanese stores by 1996. From the beginning, Suzuki realized that the Southland concept had to be adapted to the Japanese market and that the U.S. operational know-how could not be directly adapted to the compli |
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