This report approaches Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Japan and Austria. It was elaborated by students in the frame of a Task Forceʺ seminar. It addresses empirically the issues of 1) public and private reporting of CSR, 2) case studies on responsible management in small and medium...

The paper discusses the conditions under which new markets are created, and tries to identify them by an empirical case study of Japan's silver market. It starts from the perspective that the source of competitive advantage under fundamental uncertainty lies in the integration of objective and...

Local governments in Japan account for about 80 per cent of general government spending when excluding social security expenditures. Therefore, for the implementation of fiscal policy it is important how local governments will behave. On the basis of the economic theories on fiscal federalism it...