This article reviews major theoretical and empirical work on vertical and horizontal
Japanese keiretsu. We first outline the history, characteristics, and strategic and …

The impact of strategies used to appropriate innovation rents on firm performance is
analyzed using a sample of US public manufacturing firms. Stronger appropriability at the …

Measuring the private returns to R&D requires knowledge of its private depreciation or
obsolescence rate, which is inherently variable and responds to competitive pressure …

Using a sample of 2902 listed non-financial firms over the period 2004 to 2017 and recently
available Nikkei NEEDS CGES database, this study provides the first comprehensive and …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the impact of investment in Intangible
Assets on the corporate performance of Indian companies for a period of twelve years from …

Consistent with a bank-centered governance system, Japanese firms exhibit an
exceptionally low level of performance variability. The increased involvement of foreign …

How do new industries emerge? This paper aims to answer this question by analyzing the
key actors in this process. We focus on the new industry of service robot. By using data of …

This study examines the market's reaction around and subsequent to the announcement of
an Information Technology Investment (ITI). The Scholes-Williams' and Dimson's betas, a …

We analyse the structure of corporate boards in Japan to determine whether they are
matched to each firm's specific needs. Consistent with US findings, our results show that …

Using firm-level data from Changzhou, a prefectural city in China's Yangzi River Delta, we
investigate the performance of both internal and external research and development (R&D) …