Overcoming Organizational Silos: Role of New Clients in Post-Merger Integration

76th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management （2016/08/09）

Conference Paper: submitted by Karube, Masaru

Today's Oral History: Ghosn Reforms and the Power of CFTs as Explained by Mr. Jun-ichi Endo Who Became the Second Youngest Managing Director from within in Nissan's History

Nishiguchi, Toshihiro: Satoru Oguchi
WP#16-08 (in Japanese) Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/08/09）

Review of Juroh Hashimoto, Sengo Nihon Keizai no Seichou Kouzou: Kigyō System to Sangyō Seisaku no Bunseki (The Structure of Postwar Japan's Economic Growth: an Analysis of Enterprise Systems and Industrial Policy)

Yonekura, Seiichiro, Takeda, Haruhito（編）『Micro-Performance During Postwar Japan's High-Growth Era』 pp. 153-156
Springer（2016/08/01）

Community Capital: The Prosperity and Limits of China’s Wenzhou Entrepreneurial Networks

Nishiguchi, Toshihiro: Motoko Tsujita
Yuhikaku, 458 pages (The Shoko Research Institute’s (SRI) prestigious Annual Award for Outstanding Studies on Small Business 2017 and the Tadao Kiyonari’s JASVE Award 2017)（2016/07/31）

Global spread of pharmaceutical patent protections: micro evidence from the international equivalents of the drug patents in Japan

Okada, Yoshimi : Sadao Nagaoka
WP#16-07 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/07/13）

We investigate the global spread of pharmaceutical patent protections as acquired by firms, based on a novel global patent database for all significant medical drugs introduced in Japan. It gives us the propensity of filing and grant rate for each country for the granted patents in Japan. Major findings are the following. Both the fili…

Is Higher Status an Indicator of Higher Quality? Evidence from Japanese Audit Industry, 2002-2014

28th Annual Meeting of SASE (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics) （2016/06/24）

Conference Paper: submitted by Karube, Masaru

Analysing R&D in the Japanese Construction Industry

Konno, Yukiko
WP#16-06 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/04/08）

This study examines the reasons for research and development (R&D) inactivity in the Japan’s construction industry. It focuses on the impact of Japan’s public works bid…

The measurement of scope economies using multi-product composite cost function

Konno, Yukiko
WP#16-05 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/04/08）

This study employs a multi-product composite cost function to examine whether the major Japanese general contractors obtain scope economies by diversification. The analysis results indicate that the contractors do not obtain scope economies by the sector and client diversification.

Claim Length as a Value Predictor of a Patent

Okada, Yoshimi : Yusuke Naito : Sadao Nagaoka
WP#16-04 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/04/07）

The claim of a patent defines the scope of patent right and provides crucial information on patent value. However, most empirical research uses only the number of claims as an indicator of patent value. We show that the breadth of a claim of Japanese patents, measured by the inverse of claim length, has significant explanatory power fo…

"Can You Teach a Lion to Roar?" Selected African Skills Development and Capacity Building Perspectives: Breaking Down Old Paradigms and Creating New Opportunities

Dumisani Magadlela
WP#16-03 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/03/31）

This research paper explores selected sub-Saharan African skills development and capacity building priorities needed for the sub-continent to achieve its growth targets …

The Changing Networks of the Wenzhou Apparel Industry: Descriptive Features and Cluster Analysis

Nishiguchi, Toshihiro: Motoko Tsujita
WP#16-02 (in Japanese) Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/03/22）

Brand Royalty and Generic Competition

Wan, Yunyun(Jiangyun)
WP#16-01 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2016/01/13）

Facing generic competition, a brand-name drug company sometimes launches its own generic called an "authorized generic"(AG) through a third-party entity. If an authorized party transfers a substantial part of its profits to the brand-name drug company, the letter's total profit increases as a result and every branded drug that comes of…

Can the Wenzhou Model That Has Led Spontaneous Capitalism in China Outgrow Itself?: The Prosperity and Limits of Wenzhou Firms’ Community Capital

Nishiguchi, Toshihiro: Motoko Tsujita
『Hitotsubashi Business Review』 Vol. 63 No. 3 pp. 18-33 (in Japanese) （2015/12/24）

Entrepreneurship and Job Relatedness of Human Capital

Ohyama, Atsushi
『Economica』 （2015/12/01）

Motivating and Enabling Firm Innovation Effort: Integrating Penrosian and Behavioral Theory Perspectives on Slack Resources

Malen, Joel
『Hitotsubashi Journal of Commerce and Management』 Vol.49 No.1 pp.37-54 （2015/10/29）

This paper investigates why some firms make more effort to innovate than others. Building on ideas articulated by Edith Penrose in The Theory of the Growth of the Firm (2009), I develop a theoretical framework articulating how the intensity with which firms engage in innovation development to heterogeneity in levels of human and physic…

The Samurai Company: Double Creative Response in Meiji Japan

Yonekura, Seiichiro
『Hitotsubashi Journal of Commerce and Management』 Vol.49 No.1 pp. 1-23 （2015/10/29）

Japanese People Have Regained Confidence,

JETRO Switzerland Newsletter, Issue 78 （2015/10/01）

Aoshima, Yaichi pp.1-2

The Merger Paradox and R&D

Miyagiwa, Kaz : Yunyun(Jiangyun) Wan
WP#15-21 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2015/09/28）

The merger paradox is revisited in the presence of cost-reducing R&D in Cournot oligopoly. Two cases are found, in which merger is profitable without satisfying the 80-percent threshold requirement of Salant et al (1983).

From My Bookshelf: The Earthly Bible / Tocqueville, Alexis de, De la Democratie en Amerique

Nishiguchi, Toshihiro
『Hitotsubashi Business Review』 Vol. 63 No. 2 P. 89 (in Japanese) （2015/09/24）

Initial Public Offering and Financing of Biotechnology Start-ups: Evidence from Japan

Honjo, Yuji : Sadao Nagaoka
WP#15-20 Hitotsubashi University IIR （2015/09/10）

This paper explores the initial public offering (IPO) and financing of biotechnology start-ups in Japan. Using a unique data set, we find that biotechnology start-ups in…