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2019-08: Analyzing the determinants of non-financial information disclosure in the integrated report from the viewpoint of content elements: Evidence from Japan

Tadanori Yosano

2019-03: Going Places: Rail Transport in Japan

Fumitoshi Mizutani

2019-01: Do Sustainability Reports Strategically Employ Rhetorical Tone?: An evidence from Japan

Yuriko Nakao, Katsuhiko Kokubu and Kimitaka Nishitani

2018-07: Lending by Regional Financial Institutions Driven by Hometown Tax Donation and Ensuing Prospects for Intra-regional Industry-Government-Banking Collaboration

Takaaki Hoda and Yuichiro Kubo

2017-19: Introductory analysis of sustainable consumption and production: Factors of corporate social responsibility management in Japan

Michiyuki Yagi and Katsuhiko Kokubu

2017-17: The Effect of Corporate International Diversification on Firm Risk

Charee Kwak

2017-05: Why is the motivation of non-regular employees not low? From the viewpoints of Equity Theory and Social Comparison Processes Theory

Mitsutoshi Hirano and Chika Kasatani

2017-04: The Influence of Management's Work-Life Balance on the Organizational Behavior of Employees in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises -Empirical Analysis Focusing on Spillover and Crossover Effects-

Mitsutoshi Hirano and Atsushi Yogo

2016-14: Financial Risk, Main Bank System, and Cost Behavior: Empirical Evidence from Japan

Mami Koyama, Tomohisa Kitada and Takehisa Kajiwara

2016-13: Introductory analysis of sustainable production in Southeast Asia and Japan: Corporate disclosure, green purchasing, and macro situation

Michiyuki Yagi and Katsuhiko Kokubu

2016-12: Finitely Repeated Games with Automatic and Optional Monitoring

Yasuyuki Miyahara and Tadashi Sekiguchi

2016-08: BAYESIAN ESTIMATION OF BETA-TYPE DISTRIBUTION PARAMETERS BASED ON GROUPED DATA

Kazuhiko Kakamu and Haruhisa Nishino

2016-07: The Effect of Supervisors' Transformational Leadership on Subordinates' Psychological Empowerment and Work-Life Balance

Saki Kishino and Mitsutoshi Hirano

2016-06: Study on Determinants of Part-Time Workers' Sense of Fairness: From the Viewpoint of Systems for Converting to Regular Employees and Part-Time Workers' Career Orientation

Atsushi Yogo and Mitsutoshi Hirano

2016-02: Factors Affecting Inefficiency Level: Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Public Utility Firms in Japan

Fumitoshi Mizutani and Eri Nakamura

2015-27: An empirical examination of how the corporate governance and strategy affect GHG emissions efficiency

Bowen Zhou, Michiyuki Yagi and Katsuhiko Kokubu

2015-26: How do firms' climate-related management and strategy affect climate change risks and opportunities awareness?

Yuchen Shen, Mohammad Tazul Islam, Michiyuki Yagi and Katsuhiko Kokubu

2015-25: Determinants of the efficiency of CDM and JCM projects: Viewing from financial and environmental outcomes

Mai Huong Hoang, Mohammad Tazul Islam, Michiyuki Yagi and Katsuhiko Kokubu

2015-24: Does corporate environmental performance change through environmental policies between pre and post 2011? Evidence from firm-level data in Germany and Japan

Lara Makowski, Qi Wu, Michiyuki Yagi and Katsuhiko Kokubu

2015-21: To What Extent Do Public Interest and Private Interest Affect Regulations? An Empirical Investigation of Firms in Japan

Fumitoshi Mizutani and Eri Nakamura

2015-20: Unique Dividends for Retail Shareholders: Evidence from Shareholder Perks

Katsushi Suzuki

2015-18: Estimation of Social Costs of Highways in Japan

Fumitoshi Mizutani, Yusuke Suzuki and Shuji Uranishi

2015-10: An Analysis of Household Electricity Saving Behavior Using the Stochastic Frontier Function

Fumitoshi Mizutani and Eri Nakamura

2015-08: Determinants of University Tuition in Japan

Fumitoshi Mizutani, Noriyoshi Nakayama and Tomoyasu Tanaka

2015-02: The Effect of Demand Response on Electricity Consumption in Japan

Fumitoshi Mizutani, Takuro Tanaka and Eri Nakamura

2014-38: Postal Services: Governments and Firms' Perspective

Fumitoshi Mizutani, Shuji Uranishi and Eri Nakamura

2014-37: Comparing the Costs of Vertical Separation, Integration, and Intermediate Organisational Structures in European and East Asian Railways

Fumitoshi Mizutani, Andrew Smith, Chris Nash and Shuji Uranishi

2014-34: Systemic Complexity in Integrated Thinking

Erik Bjurstrom, Tadanori Yosano and Ulf Johanson

2014-32: The Role of Environmental, Social and Governance Initiatives in Securing Employee Retention

Oksana Arshynnikova, Michiyuki Yagi and Katsuhiko Kokubu

2014-31: How do firms disclose environmental information on climate change in aspects of both business risks and opportunities?

Honami Sakaguchi, Michiyuki Yagi and Katsuhiko Kokubu

2014-30: Expanding the Horizon: An Empirical Study of Sustainable Supply Chain Management and Firm Performance

Xichen Sun, Michiyuki Yagi and Katsuhiko Kokubu

2014-29: Why Should Companies Implement Environmental and Social Policies?

Kohei Matsumoto, Michiyuki Yagi and Katsuhiko Kokubu

2014-27: Measurement of Creativity: The tripartite approach for creative thinking

Akira Horikami and Kiyoshi Takahashi

2014-24: Looking Beyond Europe with a Special Focus on Japan

Fumitoshi Mizutani

2014-22: What Most Affects A Firm' s Costs: Internal or External Factors, or Both?

Fumitoshi Mizutani and Eri Nakamura

2014-15: IMPACTS OF EAST-JAPAN' S DISASTER ON PRODUCTION OF A SMALL-MEDIUM CARDBOARD MANUFACTURER IN FUKUSHIMA

Hideki Murakami and Akiko Yanagida

2014-09: Leadership in the Prisoner's Dilemma with Inequity-Averse Preferences

Koji Abe, Hajime Kobayashi and Hideo Suehiro

2013-38: Management Forecasts, Idiosyncratic Risk, and Information Environment

Norio Kitagawa and Shin' ya Okuda

2013-31: Dynamic effect of inter-airline rivalry on airfares and consumers' welfare: Japan' s full-service vs. new air carriers

Hideki Murakami and Yoshihisa Amano

2013-28: Product lifecycle and choice of transportation modes: Japan' s evidence of import and export

Hideki MUurakami, Yukari Matsuse, Koji Mukaigawa and Yushi Tsunoda

2013-25: Regulation, Competition, Diversification, Governance and Costs: An Empirical Analysis of Public Utility and Manufacturing Firms in Japan

Fumitoshi Mizutani and Eri Nakamura

2013-19: Organizational Field Comprising Competitive Relationships: The Case of the ``Galapagos Syndrome" in the Japanese Mobile Phone Industry

Satoko Uenishi and Noboru Matsushima

2013-03: Corporate Real Estate Holdings: Fool' s Gold or Crown Jewel?

Takanori Fukushima, Nobuyuki Isagawa, Tomohiro Mae, Satoru Yamaguchi and Takashi Yamasaki

2012-25: Dynamic Effect of Low-Cost Entry on the Conduct Parameter: An Early-Stage Analysis of Southwest Airlines and America West Airlines

Hideki Murakami

2012-20: Knowledge production connected to the social construction of the Urgent Project System in Sharp Co.: Revisiting social constructionism

Toshihiro Kanai, Noboru Matsushima and Mitsuhiro Urano

2011-49: The role of network boundary information in intellectual capital measure

Tadanori Yosano, Eric Bjurstrom and Ulf Johanson

2011-48: Isomorphic Change of Accounting Standards against the Background of Globalization

Tadanori Yosano

2011-47: Exploring to Acquire the Legitimacy Management and Disclosure of Intellectual Capital Information Practice

Tadanori Yosano

2011-41: The Roles of Relationship Lending and Utilization of Soft Information on Bank Performance in Competitive Local Markets

Tadanori Yosano and Takayoshi Nakaoka

2011-35: An empirical analysis of the effect of multimarket contacts on air carriers' pricing behaviors: A case of the U.S

Hideki Murakami and Ryota Asahi