Using the dataset collected for assessment of a post-harvest technology project in rural Cambodia, we focused on the heterogeneous social preferences of project implementers, often overlooked in the literature of Randomized Controlled Trials (RCT). Our study focuses on the gimplementer effecth...

Organizational socialization is the learning process of its specific culture and value. Foreign subsidiary socialization has been considered as a useful approach in transferring home basefs knowledge. But it has the potential risk that socialized foreign subsidiaries are not able to adjust to...

Divergent interests of bank managers and financial regulators potentially compromise the efficacy of bank rescue operations. This paper analyses an agency problem encountered in a capital injection program implemented in Japan. We hypothesize that the operationfs requirement to downsize lead...

About the phenomenon of overseas M&A made by emerging market firms, research on the management of post- M&A phase is still limited. To address this problem, in this study, we examined a serial successful overseas M&A cases made by Lenovo, including their background and the resource allocation in...

This paper investigates how farmersf risk attitudes affected the adoption of agricultural technology in a rural area in Cambodia. We incorporated prospect theory to farmersf utility function and examined the effect of the risk attitude of farmers to the adoption of two technologies: adoption of...

Although much research has been conducted on employeesf extra-role behaviors (ERBs), the topic of how newcomers to an organization engage in ERBs remains relatively underexplored. Following social cognitive theory, we develop a dynamic model of newcomersf helping and voice as two types of ERBs....

This paper provides a theoretical explanation for why the presence of asset bubbles can lead to higher economic growth in concurrence with high consumption by using a simple endogenous growth model. In the model economy, long-lived valuemaximizing firms continuously improve the quality of their...

We estimate the stocks of patents and their growth rates in the Italian textile and chemical industries between 1904 and 1937. The stocks and growth rates by nationality are estimated for Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Switzerland, and the USA. The Italian patent stock in the textile industry...

This study finds out one of the explanations about the failure of high technology business from the case analysis of Panasonicfs plasma TV business. By the in-depth historical survey of secondary information sources, this study shows that "authority of Kunio Nakamura", "idolization of Kunio...

This paper investigates the effect of the size and composition of the board of directors of Shinkin Banks on their efficiency and risk taking. Because employees are important stakeholders in Japanese firms, we define the relative size of the board of directors as the number of directors per...