We analyze the determinants of the decision to invest abroad in particular configurations of overseas plants for 120 Japanese firms active in 36 well-defined electronic product markets. We find support for a structured internationalization decision model in which the decision to produce abroad...

The open source movement is a group of volunteer programmers that has recently caused quite a stir in the software market. The volunteers of this group develop computer operating systems, programming languages, and other software. They work together in teams that communicate via the Internet....

Conditional logit analysis of the locational choice by Japanese electronics firms in China''s regions and provinces during 1990-1995 confirms a major impact of general industry, Japanese, and keiretsu-specific agglomeration benefits. Further analysis reveals a substantial aggregation bias due to...

This paper analyzes the determinants of the R&D intensity of 434 foreign affiliates, drawing on MITI''s benchmark survey of Japanese multinational firms in 1993. Acquired affiliates are responsible for more than half of overseas R&D expenditure and have significantly higher R&D intensities than...

South West-Flanders is a region in Belgium with an almost unique concentration of firms - mainly SMEs - in what could be called the Ahousing and home furnishing@-business cluster. The extreme geographical concentration of these small and medium sized firms does not translate itself into a...

In Vlaanderen liggen alle plattelandsgebieden op relatief korte afstanden van stedelijke centra. Vaak zijn de afstanden naar het werk en naar bepaalde nutsvoorzieningen - net zoals in Nederland trouwens - niet groter dan voor inwoners van stedelijke gebieden. De economische interacties tussen...

As transaction costs have become an increasing part of the economy''s overall costs, reducing transaction costs has become increasingly important in economic organisation. An example where this is pertinent is the organisation of standardization processes in, notably, Information and...

De zonevreemde bedrijven vormen in Vlaanderen een belangrijk probleem binnen de huidige ruimtelijke planning. Zonevreemde bedrijven hebben niet alleen een ruimtelijke component (ze zijn zonevreemd) maar ook een economische component (het zijn bedrijven). Een realistische oplossing voor deze...

After reviewing the stylised facts concerning Japan''s low level of inward investment and the explanations for these facts put forward in the literature, this paper examines the licensing and investment behaviour of Dutch multinational enterprises in Japan. It is shown that aggregate data on...

Since the early 1990s, electronic organisers or electronic agendas have been evolving towards fully fledged, but miniature, computers. This paper is a case study about this market. Uniquely, and reminiscent of the home computer market in the 1980s, this is a market for personal computers not...