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Alliance Capitalism
Business practices in Japan inspire fierce and even acrimonious debate, especially when they are compared to American practices. This book attempts to explain the remarkable eco...
Banks and Corporate Control in Japan
Using a large sample of Japanese firm level data, we find that Japanese banks act primarily in the short term interests of creditors when dealing with firms outside bank groups....
The Structure of Corporate Ownership in Japan
ABSTRACT I examine the structure of corporate ownership in a sample of Japanese firms in the mid 1980s. Ownership is highly concentrated in Japan, with financial institutions by...
Does Governance Matter? <i>Keiretsu</i> Alliances and Asset Specificity as Sources of Japanese Competitive Advantage
This empirical study suggests that Japanese competitive advantage in complex-product industries is at least partly due to differences in value chain governance and interfirm ass...
Atmospheric Radiocarbon Calibration to 45,000 yr B.P.: Late Glacial Fluctuations and Cosmogenic Isotope Production
More than 250 carbon-14 accelerator mass spectrometry dates of terrestrial macrofossils from annually laminated sediments from Lake Suigetsu (Japan) provide a first atmospheric ...
Advancing Knowledge about Co-Offending: Results from a Prospective Longitudinal Survey of London Males
Perhaps the most frequently documented conclusion about delinquent behavior is that most offenses are committed with others rather than by persons acting alone.Breckenridge and ...
The Rate of Underascertainment of Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Infection: Estimation Using Japanese Passengers Data on Evacuation Flights
From 29 to 31 January 2020, a total of 565 Japanese citizens were evacuated from Wuhan, China on three chartered flights. All passengers were screened upon arrival in Japan for ...
Photo- and Mechano-Catalytic Overall Water Splitting Reactions to Form Hydrogen and Oxygen on Heterogeneous Catalysts
Abstract Recent progress of overall water splitting by photocatalysts and mechanocatalysts is briefly reviewed. In photocatalytic reactions, several new materials have been intr...
I Keeping Good Company
Abstract It matters to all of us that companies should be governed effectively. The prosperity of many associated with the company-whether directly as managers and employers, or...