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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
Working Paper(outside IIR)
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https://hermes-ir.lib.hit-u.ac.jp/hermes/ir/re/79717/070careeDP-E-2002.pdf
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 …
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 …
Annual Meeting of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) （2022/12/10）
Findings in extant research on how the home country matters in cross-border M&As by emerging-market firms are inconclusive. To take stock of extant research and investigate commonalities as well as disparities, we conducted a systematic literature review of 59 empirical articles on this topic. We categorize previous findings according …
Study/Lecture Record/Oral History/Conference Paper
Annual Meeting of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) （2022/12/09）
How do different types of expatriates react to immediate disaster risk? This study seeks to acknowledge expatriate diversity by mapping reactions while paying special - albeit not blind - attention to expatriate type. I interviewed 12 expatriates in the Tokyo area one year after the 2011 Tohoku disasters. While the earthquake and tsuna…
Study/Lecture Record/Oral History/Conference Paper
URL：
https://www.conftool.org/eiba2022/index.php?page=browseSessions&form_session=596
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…
IIR Working Paper
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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…
Annual Conference of the Euro-Asia Management Studies Association (EAMSA) （2022/10/29）
Conference Paper: submitted by Padrón-Hernández, Ivar
Study/Lecture Record/Oral History/Conference Paper
URL：
https://sites.google.com/view/eamsa2022tokyo/programme/sat-29th-october
Annual Conference of the Euro-Asia Management Studies Association (EAMSA) （2022/10/29）
Findings in extant research on how the home country matters in cross-border M&As by emerging-market firms are inconclusive. To take stock of extant research and investigate commonalities as well as disparities, we conducted a systematic literature review of 59 empirical articles on this topic. We categorize previous findings according …
Study/Lecture Record/Oral History/Conference Paper
URL：
https://sites.google.com/view/eamsa2022tokyo/programme/sat-29th-october
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…
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…
Higham, Kyle: Sadao Nagaoka
22-E-074 RIETI Discussion Paper Series （2022/08/18）
Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) （2022/07/11）
On February 1st, 2019, the EU-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EJEPA) entered into force. The agreement was lauded in terms such as “the world’s largest free trade …
Study/Lecture Record/Oral History/Conference Paper
URL：
https://sase.confex.com/sase/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/20628
Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) （2022/07/11）
How do global and local actors interact in institutional maintenance and change? This study addresses this perennial question in organization theory and international bu…
Study/Lecture Record/Oral History/Conference Paper
URL：
https://sase.confex.com/sase/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/19733
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…
