Inui, Tomohiko; Kneller, Richard; Matsuura, Toshiyuki; … - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and …
This paper investigates why plants belonging to multi-plant firms are more likely to exit. Using Japanese plant data linked to firm data we study the process of plant closure among domestic multi-plant firms as well as multi-plant multinationals. As elsewhere in the literature these...