OBJECTIVES Japan has a universal healthcare system, and this paper describes the reality of the healthcare services provided, as well as current issues with the system. METHODS Academic, government, and press reports on Japanese healthcare systems and healthcare guidelines were reviewed. RESULTS The universal healthcare system of Japan is considered internationally to be both low-cost and e...

Over the past years, we have witnessed a fundamental economic transformation. Economists generally acknowledge that a profound shift has occurred in the role that knowledge and technology play in driving productivity and economic growth (Stiglitze, 1999 cited from Kozma, 2003), a phenomenon referred to as the “Knowledge economy.” These changes entail new skills, abilities, attitudes, and habits...

Most research in corporate environmental management and environmental accounting indicate a substantial gap between the espoused environmental attitudes of business leaders and the actual practices of their companies. In this paper, we apply institutional theory in an effort to explain this gap. In exploring the emerging embryonic stage of China’s environmental management issues and more specif...

It is widely recognized that e-commerce represents a critical resource for most business organizations. With over 1.3 billion people and double-digit economic growth, China could potentially emerge as the largest Internet and telecommunications market in the world if certain economic, environmental, and organizational barriers are effectively addressed. This chapter develops a descriptive profi...

a r t i c l e i n f o This study addresses the impact of equity market liquidity on Canadian economic growth and investigates how consumer attitudes/sentiments affect the dynamic macro-liquidity relationship. Using various market liquidity proxies (e.g., illiquidity ratio and open interest of equity futures) while controlling for a specific set of variables, we obtain the following main results...

This paper investigates the role played by labor market risk in shaping individual social policy preferences and political orientations. Do outsiders in the labor market, which are insecure about their future income, express a higher redistributive demand than their insider counterparts do? Does their marginalization in the labor market translate into political disenchantment? When they take pa...