Drone delivery is an emerging service at the early adoption stage. It is imperative to understand what it takes for the public to accept such emerging services. This study asks what mechanism influences people's switching intention in e-commerce drone delivery services. A 7 points Likert scale...

Conventional political economy models predict taxation will increase when the franchise is expanded to include more low-income voters. We argue that in societies where social status is a cleavage, extensions of the franchise to low-status groups may lead to not only greater redistribution but...

While researchers in alliance management have identified the duality of cooperation and control within alliances, comparative governance scholars have not yet developed a coherent framework for relating the costs of cooperation to governance choices. This paper proposes a theory of cooperation...

Despite extant research on how established firms manage interdependences and complementarities in an ecosystem, little is known regarding the ecosystem strategies that entrepreneurs can take to found and grow a new firm with resource constraints. Especially, there was no study on how startups...

Research in transition economies like China has sought and found explanations for strategic behaviour based on institutional and other social processes, leading to descriptions of China's emerging business system as 'network capitalism'. This paper argues, however, that organizational...

This paper considers methods of estimating a static correlated random coefficient model with panel data. We mainly focus on comparing two approaches of estimating unconditional mean of the coefficients for the correlated random coefficients models, the group mean estimator and the generalized...

Drone delivery is an emerging service at the early adoption stage. It is imperative to understand what it takes for the public to accept such emerging services. This study asks what mechanism influences people's switching intention in e-commerce drone delivery services. A 7 points Likert scale...

In this paper, we trace out how a decline in industrial production in one region can be propagated throughout Japan. We model Kanto as the dominant region, which includes the Tokyo area, and then use the model to analyze how a shock to industrial production in Tohoku–owing to the earthquake...