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- SHIMIZU,
T.
The longevity of the Japanese big businesses
Though survival is important to firms, especially to
the Japanese big businesses, there are few empirical studies on their longevity.
This paper conducts the statistical analysis on the longevity of the Japanese
big businesses using data on 1,273 listed firms in the first section of
Tokyo Stock Exchange. The result indicates that the longevity of the Japanese
big businesses may go beyond a century on average, and the longevity had
increased gradually in the post-WWII period. These findings suggest that
the Japanese big businesses are stable. This paper also explores the relationship
between this stability and the Japanese corporate systems.
Keyword: Longevity, Japanese big businesses, corporate systems
- FUJITA, H.
The reproduction of Hofstede model
G. H. Hofstede (1980) Culture's Consequences is a result
of an extensive research on the international comparison of corporate culture
in 40 countries through 1967 to 1973. Hofstede identified four dimensions
of culture from the investigation data of IBM's 40 subsidiaries. He developed
four indices, but did not explicitly present the exact computation formulas
for Individualism index and Masculinity index. This paper reproduces the
formulas and proves how to conduct a factor analysis that Hofstede employed
for development of these indices. Hereafter, supplementary analysis could
be done using all four indices of Hofstede. Also a factor analysis could
be done in Hofstede's method.
Keyword: Hofstede, dimensions of culture, factor analysis
- IGARI, E.
Learning process of core technology in
sporting gun industry of Japan
Japanese sporting gun manufacturers have competitive
advantage in the world market. The unfavorable conditions after World War
II resulted in improving the sporting gun processing technology drastically,
during which the core technologies and their learning process had shifted
in four phases.
Keyword: learning process, improvement in quality, competition and selection
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