, globalization has resulted in an increasing number of multinational corporations to adopt a platform strategy for their customers in …

This paper focuses on two distinct facets of globalization: the decrease in the trade costs of goods and the decline of …

We analyze diversification of boundaries of local firms in developing countries under the economic globalization. The … globalization has an aspect of homogenization of the world economy, but also has another aspect of diversification through …

Recent empirical studies which utilize plant- or establishment-level data to examine globalization's impact on … productivity have discovered many causal mechanisms involved in globalization's impact on firms' productivity. Since these pathways … globalization become visible. This strategy is useful for detecting missing links within and across the existing studies as well as …

other developed countries, activists and scholars in Japan rarely connected, as was also the case with the fields of womenâ …€™s issues in Japan and WID/GAD related to ‘other’ women. By re-examining these notions and looking more deeply into …

market more than in the domestic financial market because of globalization and integration among financial markets. …

uniform addition. We illustrate the method using prefectural data from Japan for the period 1955 to 1998. Japan experienced a … functions using panel data for prefectures in Japan, we apply the new decomposition approach to identify each production factorâ …