This book is one of the very few published investigations of international business in a Japanese context, based on an up-to-date overview of the Japanese mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market in particular. The author explicates recent developments in Japanese business and shows how Japanese...

This book contributes to the debate on the decoupling of emerging economies from the advanced economies with a new, empirical investigation approach. Taking counterfactual experiments performed using a time-varying panel VAR model, the author argues that over the last thirty years, emerging...

Jan Hauke Holste analyzes how a company can innovate and change its business model to the degree that it can climb up the value chain. His research synthesizes a combination of the global value chain and the business model literature to create a new framework of local firm upgrading. The...

Part I Theory -- A World with Borders -- How Borders Affect the World -- Managing Across Borders -- A Crossing Borders of/and Cultures -- Methodologies for Cross-Border Research -- Part II Method -- Solving Fair Division Problems -- Cross-Border Behaviors as Games -- Advancing Cross-Border...

Welcoming Remarks (Hiroshi Okada) -- Session 1: Financial System Stability and Competition in the Financial Industry -- Keynote Speech: Current Situation, Challenges and Future of Regional Finance in Japan (Hisashi Ono) -- Session 2: Finance to SMEs through Banks, Capital Markets and Other...