Sweden, Germany and Japan - long regarded as typical coordinated market economies - have been swept by a wave of change as a new market environment emerges from the process of globalization. This paper looks at these three countries' industrial relations systems, a key element of their...

Although it is often pointed out that the software industry in Japan is not competitive, the development process of the innovation system in this industry has not been fully explored and we do not know whether or not it has any problems. In this study, we conducted an empirical analysis of the...

This paper analyzes factors determining the scale of business start-ups using data sets from Japan. It shows that age, education, parents' occupation (company manager), business experience, and assets owned at the time of start-up have a significant positive impact on the scale of start-up...

This paper investigates how the pre-startup circumstances surrounding an entrepreneur, during the time when he or she decides to start a business, affects the post-startup performance. Based on the original dataset, sample selection models are estimated connecting nascent entrepreneurs'...

Discrepancy between saving rates in the System of National Accounts (SNA) and the Family Income and Expenditure Survey (FIES) has been resolved using newly available statistics. While the known factors such as differences in coverage and definition of savings explain around 70% of the...

Among present Japanese Greenhouse Gas Emission quantification methodologies, the methodology for Limestone and Dolomite origin carbon dioxide quantification is pointed out that there may be some duplication, oversight and over estimation due to the methodology mixes both industrial and...

Investment spikes have affected the movement in aggregate investment in Japan. On average, 15% of total listed firms in Japan conducted large-scale investments that created spikes in investment during the past 30 years. From the results in our Probit estimation, we find that large scale...

A question this paper seeks to answer is what kinds of people working in what kinds of companies felt their working hours were becoming longer in the early 2000s. For about 15 years after the economic bubble burst, Japanese companies implemented a number of management and human resource reforms....

This paper reports the results of an international comparison of productivity in automotive product development in Japan, the U.S. and Europe. This comparative survey was commenced by Harvard University in 1985. The first survey analyzed data from the 1980s, and detailed results showing the...

There are a number of arguments (including performance-based allocation, competitive allocation, and concentration of research funds) about financing national universities. It is, however, questionable as to whether those arguments are set out based on a sufficient understanding of the functions...