Beginning in 2008, we ran a randomized controlled trial that changed management practices in a set of Indian weaving … management practices adopted in the original experimental plants had been dropped, there was still a large and significant gap in … control plants, suggesting lasting impacts of effective management interventions. Second, while few management practices had …

existing firms or -- much more frequently -- exploited by new entrants in the U.S. In Japan this new dominant technology has … organizational change is necessary for incumbent firms to remain competitive and, ultimately, to survive. Japan's sharply higher … organizational change/new entry ratio compared to the U.S. during the biotech revolution is related to Japan's relatively compact …

Using a unique dataset on all major corporate restructuring events in Japan between 1981 and 2010, we examine how bank …-led rescue operations in Japan have changed over time. The incidence of restructuring by distressed firms has become less … findings as strong indicators of changing corporate governance in Japan, in particular in terms of the decline in corporate …

Within Japanese multinational firms, parent exports from Japan to a foreign region are positively related to production … in that region by affiliates of that parent, given the parent's home production in Japan and the region's size and income …

This study examines the relationship between Japan's manufactured exports to individual markets and the economic … in the context of a typical gravity model explaining the cross-country variation of Japan's manufacturing exports. Second …. The level of Japan's manufactured exports to a country is almost always positively related to employment in foreign …

) to Japan. Despite possibly large estimation errors due to statistical deficiencies, the framework is very useful for … analyzing the relationship of the Japanese economy to the world economy. We find that Japan is special in the following four … affiliates, rather than depending on cross-border exports by parent firms located in Japan. Second, the much smaller activities …