Japanese companies trim spending on research

Analysis of Thai Flooding Effects on Japanese Insurance Companies

In this paper, we analyzed effects of the 2011 Thai flooding on Japanese economics. In the paper, we propose, as a new time series economics data analysis method, an integrated approach of Singular Value Decomposition on stock data and news article text mining. There we first find the correlations among companies’ stock data and then in order to find the latent logical reasons of the associatio...

Adaptation to e-Learning by Japanese companies

This paper describes what Japanese corporations need to address in adapting to e-Learning. Some of the issues involve changing corporate culture, re-engineering training processes, and understanding the Digital Divide within the company.

Do Japanese companies have a competitive strategy ?

Responding to Michael Porter’s claim that “Japanese companies rarely have a strategy”, this paper argues that the competitive advantage of Japanese enterprises is not to be found in traditional practices. Rather it is due to the way these practices are upgraded and reinforced by ideological factors such as the “community of fate”, as well as the formation of governance structures that cultivate...

Public Spending on Health Services and Policy Research in Canada: A Reflection on Thakkar and Sullivan; Comment on “Public Spending on Health Service and Policy Research in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States: A Modest Proposal”

Vidhi Thakkar and Terrence Sullivan have done a careful and thought-provoking job in trying to establish comparable estimates of public spending on health services and policy research (HSPR) in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States. Their main recommendation is a call for an international collaboration to develop common terms and categories of HSPR. This paper raises two additional q...

NPD - Process and Planning in Japanese engineering companies – Findings from an interview research