Instead of imposing Japanese management styles abroad, they hope to learn about western ways of running companies.

ECONOMIST: Japanese companies

Young CEOs, most of them armed with management degrees from abroad, are looking at liberalization as a big opportunity to recast hidebound family firms into go-getting, competitive enterprises.

CNN: Recasting the Mind

The wave of accounting and management scandals has invited some abroad to disparage anew the American model.

FORBES: Sidelines

The trio says they provided the local management expertise and Transworld brokered the commodities abroad.

FORBES: Emerging Market Gold

Gordon Bajnai, Hungary's caretaker prime minister, has won plaudits abroad for his careful fiscal management (the budget deficit is now 4% of GDP, down from 9% in 2006).

ECONOMIST: A likely win for Fidesz that some hope may halt the far-right

After learning agile management at home, most want to follow Nintendo abroad.

ECONOMIST: Small firms in Japan

Dawn Chandler, a management professor at California Polytechnic State University, notes that spending time abroad can teach workers to deal with very different leadership styles.

FORBES: Magazine Article

CRISIL, an impressive outfit, is furthest down this path with half its sales from abroad, mainly from helping banks with equity research and risk-management models, demand for which has soared thanks to more regulation in the rich world.

ECONOMIST: Credit-rating agencies

It has been aggressive in expanding abroad, while maintaining and building on the strengths of its particularly Japanese-style management culture.

FORBES: Whither Japanese stocks: Komatsu

The Post Office management is keen on commercial independence, which would give it the freedom to compete with rivals abroad.

ECONOMIST: The Post Office