Political embeddedness and corporate social responsibility (CSR) in a state-led developing country: evidence from China

Li, Jiarong：Masato Sasaki
『Asian Business & Management』 1-25頁 （2024/02/03）

In many countries, the government plays a regulative role in corporate social responsibility (CSR) as an external overseer of economic and public market sectors. However, owing to the politically embedded nature of extensive corporations in China, the government's influence over CSR is not only exogenous but may even endogenously shape…

The impact of state ownership on corporate social responsibility reporting: A comparison between state-owned and non-state-owned enterprises in China

Li, Jiarong：Masato Sasaki
『Management Communication Quarterly』 （2023/10/23）

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting is a communication channel between companies and stakeholders. As the literature has largely been confined to exploring p…

K-pop’s internationalization in the product adaptation and the upstream music supply chain in Korea, China, Japan, and the West

Kim, Byeongsik：Byeongwoo Kang
『Asia Pacific Business Review』 Vol. 29 No. 5 1369-1393頁 （2023/06/01）

The success of Korean popular music (K-pop) in foreign markets has attracted considerable attention from researchers. Previous studies have highlighted the factors in K-…

Telework, Management, and Technology

Ohyama, Atsushi：Ryo Kambayashi
No.375 ESRI Discussion Paper Series （2023/04/01）

We empirically examine what factors facilitate remote work arrangements by using the data from the 2020 JP MOPS. In this study, we exploit variations in establishment ch…

Structure of university licensing networks

Modic, Dolores：Borut Lužar：Tohru Yoshioka‑Kobayashi
『Scientometrics』 Vol.128 Issue2 901-932頁 （2023/02/01）

We study the structure and evolution of networks of inventors involved in university licensing and patenting. In particular, we focus on networks of inventors that have successfully licensed a university patent (i.e., licensing networks), and investigate levels of their fragmentation, cliquishness, and whether they exhibit the small wo…

From Samurai to Skyscrapers: How Transaction Costs Shape Tokyo

Yamasaki, Junichi：Kentaro Nakajima：Kensuke Teshima
E-2020-02 TDB-CAREE Discussion Paper Series （2023/02/01）

Whether transaction costs to assemble or split land can persistently hinder urban land use remains unknown. Constructing a 100 m*100 m-cell-level dataset of central Tok…

Satellite-Based Vehicle Flow Data to Assess Local Economic Activities

Go, Eugenia：Kentaro Nakajima：Yasuyuki Sawada：Kiyoshi Taniguchi
F-1209 CIRJE Discussion Paper Series （2023/01/01）

Spatially and seasonally granular measures of local economic activities are increasingly required in a variety of economic analyses. We propose using novel vehicle density data obtained from daytime satellite images to quantify the local economic activity involving human and goods traffic flows. Validation exercises show that vehicle …

Mechanisms for Long-Term Innovation:Technology and Business Development of Reverse Osmosis Membranes

Fujiwara, Masatoshi; Yaichi Aoshima
Springer Nature Singapore, 372pp.（2022/12/16）

This book explores how a long-term innovation can take place based on historical analyses of the development of reverse osmosis (RO) membrane from the early 1950s to the mid-2010s. The RO membrane is a critical material for desalination that is a key to solve water shortages becoming serious in many places of the world. The authors …

The determinants of parallel invention: Measuring the role of information sharing and personal interaction between inventors

Kang,Byeongwoo: Rudi Bekkers
WP#22-06 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2022/11/07）

Historical accounts describe numerous cases of parallel invention. Nowadays, with over half a million inventions yearly that apply for patent protection at the USPTO alone, it is likely that there are a lot of parallel inventions among these. Yet, the mechanisms behind creating similar knowledge remain unstudied. From both a theoretica…

Invention by Collage Graduates in Science and Engineering during Japan's Industrialization

Yamaguchi, Shotaro：Hiroyasu Inoue：Kentaro Nakajima：Tetsuji Okazaki：Yukiko Umeno Saito：Serguey Braguinsky
22-E-104 RIETI Discussion Paper Series （2022/11/01）

During Japan's industrialization from the late 19th to the first half of the 20th century, the adoption of foreign technologies was　increasingly complemented by domestic…

Scientific rewards for biomedical specialization are large and persistent

De Rassenfosse, Gaétan: Kyle Higham: Orion Penner
『BMC Biology』 Vol. 20 Article Number 211 （2022/09/30）

Background: While specialization plays an essential role in how scientific research is pursued, we understand little about its effects on a researcher’s impact and care…

Determinants of Ph.D. progression: student’s abilities and lab local environment

Yoshioka-Kobayashi, Tohru: Sotaro Shibayama
『Higher Education』 Published online: 29 September, 2022 （2022/09/29）

Ph.D. training is an important mechanism for developing scientists who will serve our knowledge-based society. Because the quality of students who join Ph.D. programs si…

Overcoming the liability of foreignness in US capital markets: the case of Alibaba and Coupang

Pesqué-Cela, Vanesa：Jiarong Li：Yun Kyung Kim
『Asia Pacific Business Review』 Vol,29 Issue2 323-349頁 （2022/09/21）

Drawing on signalling theory and using the cases of Alibaba and Coupang, we investigate whether and how venture capital-backed companies from emerging markets use CSR to overcome the liability of foreignness when going public in the US. Our findings suggest that such firms strategically increase their CSR activities prior to their IPO …

Language Barriers and the Speed of Knowledge Diffusion

Higham, Kyle: Sadao Nagaoka
22-E-074 RIETI Discussion Paper Series （2022/08/18）

Springing Forward and Falling Back on Health: The Effect of Daylight Saving Time on Acute Myocardial Infarction

Tanaka, Shinsuke：Hideto Koizumi
medRxiv （2022/07/08）

We examine the effects of Daylight Saving Time (DST) on the incidence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) over three distinct time frames: short, medium, and long run. By exploiting the unique circumstances in Indiana, our findings highlight substantial short-term costs of increased AMI admissions at the spring transition by 27.2%, wh…

Multilayer patent citation networks: A comprehensive analytical framework for studying explicit technological relationships

Higham, Kyle: Martina Contisciani: Caterina De Bacco
『Technological Forecasting and Social Change』 Vol. 179 （2022/06/01）

The use of patent citation networks as research tools is becoming increasingly commonplace in the field of innovation studies. However, these networks rarely consider the contexts in which these citations are generated and are generally restricted to a single jurisdiction. Here, we propose and explore the use of a multilayer network fr…

The Economics of Spatial Mobility: Theory and Evidence Using Smartphone Data

Miyauchi, Yuhei： Kentaro Nakajima： Stephen J. Redding
No. 28497 NBER Working Paper （2022/04/01）

The Role of Face-to-face Contact in Innovation: The Evidence from the Spanish Flu Pandemic in Japan

Inoue, Hiroyasu： Kentaro Nakajima： Tetsuji Okazaki： Yukiko Umeno Saito
22-E-026 RIETI Discussion Paper Series （2022/03/01）

On the Use of Satellite-Based Vehicle Flows Data to Assess Local Economic Activity: The Case of Philippine Cities

Go, Eugenia： Kentaro Nakajima： Yasuyuki Sawada： Kiyoshi Taniguchi
No. 652 ADB Economics Working Paper Series （2022/03/01）

Local Labor Market Effects of Chinese Imports and Offshoring: Evidence from Matched-Foreign Affiliate-Domestic Parent-Domestic Plant Data in Japan

Kiyota, Kozo： Kentaro Nakajima： Miho Takizawa
22-E-13 RIETI Discussion Paper Series （2022/03/01）