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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Japanese Firms"”.
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Succession rules for CEO in Japanese firms : institutions and agency
… the interests of the employees. Also, a Japanese CEO enjoys considerable autonomy from stakeholder influence, where he is usually the sole authority in deciding the timing of his own retirement as well as his successor. Although main banks provide a limit to CEO power, they tend to …
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Gender Differences on Organizational Commitment of U.S. and Japanese Firms in Thailand
… and behavioral commitment of ten U.S. and Japanese transplants in Thailand. The study proceeds in two steps. First, the relationship between four categories of independent variables and two dimensions of organizational commitment, gender and other independent variables as well as the firms' …
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Japanese firms in the EU: Europeanization of lobbying strategies and enduring national characteristics
The number of Japanese firms in Brussels has increased since the creation of the European Single Market. At the same time, large European firms have become independent political actors and harmonized their lobbying pattern, creating a distinctive business-government relationship in the EU. Yet, it …
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Fluctuations in the supply of credit and its effects on the capital structure of Japanese firms
… applied in a large sample of public and private firms, clearly indicate that fluctuations in the supply of credit affect capital structure and also that Japanese firms face financial constraints. The pecking order hypothesis is proven to be the winner of the “horse race” test and trade credit is …
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Values and Organizational Behavior: A Comparative Study of Japanese and American Managers of the Japanese Firms in the United States
… cultural differences between American and Japanese managers of Japanese firms in the U.S. and the impact of cultural differences on job satisfaction, decision making styles and performance evaluation of the two groups of managers.
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The Influence of Japanese Domestic Interfirm Networks in Japanese Cooperative Ventures in North America: Partner Choice, Speed of Venture Establishment, and Survival
… the findings of this research suggest that Japanese firms have mobilized their domestic network relationships to reduce the risk of internationalization. Yet, the research also shows that the Japanese firms have not entered into these domestic relationships to the exclusion of ventures with …
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Architecting Absorptive Capacity: Systems Framework for Open Innovation in Japanese Enterprises
… the potential of collaborative R&D between large Japanese firms and external actors to drive innovation through open innovation practices. The research focuses on absorptive capacity - defined as an organization's ability to recognize, assimilate, and utilize external knowledge - as a critical …
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The Effect of IFRS and SOX-like Regulations on Earnings Management in East Asian Countries
… not. Secondly, in the post-IFRS period, listed firms in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore experience a decline in income smoothing, especially those with a high level of income smoothing in the pre-IFRS period. These firms seem to switch from accruals to real activity manipulation, …
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Managerial Limits to International Expansion by Acquisitions and Greenfields: An Empirical Examination of Japanese Direct Investments in the United States
I test these hypotheses using a sample of Japanese manufacturing investments made in the United States between 1978 and 1990. The results show that Japanese firms that followed acquisition strategies had lower growth than those that employed greenfield strategies in three cases: (1) when the …
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Unleashing knowledge in oil retailing : integrated knowledge sharing within the Japan Energy Corporation, retail marketing group
… and methodology can be seen between Western firms and Japanese firms nowadays. The importance of "Knowledge Management" is one example. As systematized and practiced in many Western firms, knowledge management is known as "management based on knowledge assets" and includes the skillful use of …
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Essays in Financial Economics
… exchange rate risk. In their income statements, firms report such exchange rate gains and losses, signaling their exposure to currency risk. We focus on two countries, Japan and the United States, that exhibit a similar trade openness but two very different shares of foreign currency invoicing. …
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The effectiveness of quality control systems in Australia and Japan : a comparative analysis
… is a comparative analysis of the literature in Japanese and in English, to highlight the differences in the interpretation of quality management systems. The second is the analysis, through extensive interviews, of five case studies (including Japanese firms in Japan, Japanese subsidiaries in …
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Confucianism in firms : a comparative study of South Korea, China and Japan
… in this thesis on South .Korean, Chinese and Japanese firms, intending to find some similarities and differences which will shed light on the reinterpretation of Confucianism for modem commerce. While Japan and South Korea are further along the path of industrialization, these findings will be …
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Analysis of Japanese Software Business
… software and information systems, various firms in various countries have entered the business of software seeking for prosperity. Some have succeeded, some have failed. What distinguishes these firms is its ability to manage and deliver quality products on demand, on time, at a low cost. …
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Strategy for diversity management : women's leadership and work-life balance in Japan by
… One solution is to increase the participation of Japanese women in the workforce. Over the past decade Japanese society, its government and companies have started this process. "Diversity Management" and "Work-Life Balance" are focus areas for executives in Japanese companies with the combined …
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Essays on economic geography and networks
… three chapters that analyze how the networks of firms, people, and locations shape socio-economic activities. The first chapter analyzes the role of supplier to buyer matching in the firm-to-firm trade as a source of geographic concentration of economic activities. Using a panel of firm-to-firm …
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Labor reallocation, Productivity and Output Volatility in Japan
… of job reallocation rates among relatively large Japanese firms. The main results show that job reallocation follows a steady decline in volatility between 1967 and 1997 and exhibits little deviation from its long-run trend in the 1990s. At the same time, the idiosyncratic effects of job …
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A Comparative Study of the Usefulness of Accounting Systems
… than other accounting systems in estimating firms' value by using a new method of comparing alternative accounting systems. This method examines whether one accounting system is superior to another accounting system with its ability to correctly measure a firm's worth, represented by the …
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An approach to developing a resilient high-speed rail enterprise architecture through digital transformation
Japanese Shinkansen has been a safe and reliable mode of transportation in Japan, and JR-Central has developed a well-organized operating system architecture to ensure safety, reliability, and profitability. However, now is the time for the company to transform its architecture because the …
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Scale and timing of foreign direct investment of Japanese electronics firms in the U.S. and Canada
… the foreign direct investment (FDI) of firms. The propositions are tested with data about the FDI of Japanese electronics firms in the U.S. and Canada. The first part of the study employs LISREL structural equation models to analyze the influence of firm-specific assets, i.e., ownership …
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