Globalization of business activities is imperative for Japanese manufacturers, as an international market, particularly in emerging economies, grows much faster than domestic market. In this regards, the relative importance of their overseas subsidiaries to home base headquarter become greater....

Effect of Non-practicing entities (NPE) on innovation society has been a controversial issue owing to their having both positive and negative impacts. However, measuring the net effect as well as finding ways to reduce the probable negative effects of the NPEs has been a challenge. In this...

In this paper we compare sources of economic growth in Japan and the United States from 1975 through 2003, focusing on the role of information technology (IT). We have adjusted Japanese data to conform to U.S. definitions in order to provide a rigorous comparison between the two economies. The...