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Competitiveness of the knitwear industry in Bangladesh : a study of industrial development amid global competition
Bakht, Zaid; Salimullah, Md.; Yamagata, Tatsufumi; … - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008
This paper assesses the technical efficiency and profitability of the knitwear industry in Bangladesh taking into … gauge the extent and determinants of the profitability of the industry based on firm-level data collected in 2001. The … estimation results indicate the high profitability of the knitwear firms. In Bangladesh, the dynamic development of the industry …
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Has Low Productivity Constrained Competitiveness of African Firms? : Comparison of the Firm Performances with Asian Firms
Fukunishi, Takahiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2007
It has been argued that poor productive performance is one of critical sources of stagnation of the African manufacturing sector, but firm-level empirical supports are limited. Using the inter-regional firm data of the garment industry, technical efficiency and its contribution to...
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Competition of the mechanisms : how Chinese home appliance firms coped with default risk of trade credit?
Watanabe, Mariko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
During the transition period from a planned economy to a market economy in 1990s of China, there was a considerable …
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Location choice of multinational enterprises in China : comparison between Japan and Taiwan
Chang, Kuo-I; Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Matsuura, Toshiyuki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2010
This paper examines and compares the location choice of Japanese and Taiwanese MNEs in China. Furthermore, we …'s linguistic and cultural advantages in China, it is expected that the location choice mechanics are different between Japanese and …
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Firm-level impacts of natural disasters on production networks : evidence from a flood in Thailand
Hayakawa, Kazunobu; Matsuura, Toshiyuki; Okubo, Fumihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
. Second, damaged young firms and damaged old firms are more likely to raise the shares of imports from Japan and China …
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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...
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What motivates female operators to enter the garment industry in Pakistan in the post-MFA period?
Makino, Momoe - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
Pakistan's knitwear exports had been struggling since the quota phase-out until 2009. A particular feature of Pakistan's garment industry is that hiring more male sewing operators at piece rates. Recently, a few surviving knitwear factories have adopted a strategy of shifting from male...
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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...
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Adoption of ISO9001 through supply chain in Vietnam : impacts of FDI and product-related environmental regulation
Iguchi, Hakaru; Arimura, Toshi H.; Michida, Etsuyo - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
The objective of the present study is to examine the determinants of ISO 9001 certification, focusing on the effect of Product-related Environmental Regulations on Chemicals (PRERCs) and FDI using the answers to several questions in our Vietnam survey conducted from December 2011 to January...
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Technology Choice, Change of Trade Structure, and A Case of Hungarian Economy
Yoshino, Hisao - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008
In the IT industry, there has been a remarkable increase in the demand for system LSI. A system LSI must be tailor-designed for each electrical appliance, and then produced. It is said that in recent years, this production method has made the IC cycle ambiguous. It can be sought that the choice...
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