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On the Evolution of the Spatial Economy with Multi-unit/Multi-plant Firms: The Impact of IT Development
Fujita, Masahisa; Gokan, Toshitaka - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2004
This paper examines how the decline of communication costs between management and production facilities within firms and the decrease in trade costs of manufactured goods affect the spatial organization of a two-region economy with multi-unit/multi-plant firms. The development of information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005534141
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Supply chain collaboration and responsiveness : a comparison between Thai automotive and electronics industries
Ueki, Yasushi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
This paper examines factors that promote firms to develop supply chain collaborations (SCC) with their partners and relationships between SCC and supply chain operational performances (SCOP), using a questionnaire survey on Thai automotive and electronics industries in 2012. This paper also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691400
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Formation of supply chain collaboration and firm performance in the Thai automotive and electronics industries
Ueki, Yasushi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
This paper examines factors that encourage firms to go into supply chain collaborations (SCC) and relationships between SCC and supply chain performances (SCP), using a questionnaire survey on Thai automotive and electronics industries in 2012. OLS regression results show firms established...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147332
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Globalization and the Evolution of the Supply Chain: who gains and who loses?
Fujita, Masahisa; Thisse, Jacques-Francois - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2004
This paper focuses on two distinct facets of globalization: the decrease in the trade costs of goods and the decline of communication costs between headquarters and production facilities within firms. When the unskilled have about the same wage in the two regions, the decrease of these costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005222503
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Promoting institutional connectivity in the Asia Pacific region : a study of supply chain and trade in services
Ishido, Hikari - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
This paper analyzes "institutional connectivity", or the degree of seamless trade in services centering on the distribution sector. Foreign equity participation in mode 3 (commercial presence) of trade in services and business firms’ investment performance has been studied closely. Net...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011134432
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Taiwan strait crises and Chiang Kai-shek's strategic thinking : a perspective from the Taiwan's archive
Matsumoto, Haruka - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
mainland China and the defense of the Da-chen islands before and after the initiation of the First Taiwan Strait Crisis in 1954 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010938732
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Assessing agglomeration economies in the Yangzi River Delta, China : a bayesian spatial econometric approach
Hashiguchi, Yoshihiro; Chen, Kuang-hui - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
the agglomeration effect, in the Yangtze River Delta, China. A spatial Durbin model is presented that makes explicit the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941676
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A closer look at the diffusion of ChinaGAP
Lei, Lei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
To enhance Chinese agricultural production, improve food quality, build consumer trust, and encourage the export of agricultural products, the Chinese government designed the Chinese version of Good Agricultural Practice (ChinaGAP) based on the main principles of the GlobalGAP combining the...
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The voices and protests of China's labour NGOs and their effort to promote migrant worker rights
Yamaguchi, Mami - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
Labour NGOs in China are relatively new organizations that emerged in the 1990s and have spread during the 2000s …. Migrant workers in China are weak both socially and economically and have been lacking ways of voicing grievances and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213713
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Product quality and intra-industry trade
Ito, Tadashi; Okubo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
quality improvement of Chinese export goods in its IIT with Germany. We compare the case of China with those of Eastern … between Germany and Eastern European countries is clearly narrowing. However, China's export prices to Germany are much lower … than Germany's export prices to China, and this gap has not narrowed over the last 23 years. This is at odds with the …
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