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Mirroring Consensus

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Mirroring Consensus is a cooperative research project in which the universities of Rotterdam, Tilburg, Nijmegen and Maastricht have been involved.1 This project has been one of the many activities to celebrate the commemoration of 400 years relations between Japan and the Netherlands and focusses on the analysis of business practices of Japanese companies in the Netherlands and Dutch companies in Japan. This study concerns consensus and decision making and is based upon the following considerations.

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Stam, J.A. (2001). Mirroring Consensus. In: Holzhausen, A. (eds) Can Japan Globalize?. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-11285-4_24

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