This paper examines the current Japanese film industry, where it is well known that certain directors and production teams repeatedly work together to produce a series of films that often show high economic and artistic performance. Firstly, through historical examination, we describe how these...

This paper focuses on the roles of regional entrepreneurship, especially university researchers and the effectiveness of their legitimization in the process of establishing academic spin-off ventures for the commercialisation of new technologies. Using regional university-originated spin-off...

"Drawing on the rich, qualitative-interview-based data from Japanese firms and dual-career workers, the author discusses Tenkin, cultural and gendered corporate transfers, workers' agency, and argues the need to incorporate the concept of care in career management"--

The use of GARCH models with stable Paretian innovations in financial modeling has been recently suggested in the literature. This class of processes is attractive because it allows for conditional skewness and leptokurtosis of financial returns without ruling out normality. This contribution...