This study examines the similarities and d@erences of outsourcing strategies of medium-sized manufacturing firms in the U.S. and Japan. Analyses of the questionnaire data, obtained from 234 Japanese firms and 94 American firms showed that: (I) Japanese Jirms tended to use more process-oriented R&D outsourcing, while American firms tended to depend on result-oriented R&D outsourcing; (2) Japanes...

Comparative analysis on five technopoleis shows that there has been a major change in terms of roles of the central government and the local governments. The recent technopoleis are initiated by the local governments while the earlier ones are initiated by the central government. Also operation by the 3 sector is getting popular. This shift is well accepted by the central government. The govern...

A major issue in the current economic debate is related to the striking difference between Europe, Japan and US concerning the level and evolution of unemployment. This paper explores the micro determinants of these observed stylized facts. In a first part, a theoretical framework is presented allowing to address this comparative analysis. The starting point is the definition of different micro...

Past research revealed issues with artificial event data used for comparative analysis of process mining algorithms. The aim of this research is to design, implement and validate a framework for producing artificial event logs which should increase discriminatory power of artificial event logs when evaluating process discovery techniques.

Facebook and Twitter, two of the most popular social networking sites, have different network structures and communication purposes. To examine how their differences affect users’ language use, we conducted a comparative analysis on the linguistic pattern of Facebook status updates and tweets. Differences were found in word categories indicating verbal immediacy, emotionality, topic, and colloq...

Many scholars study shows that the background music is restaurant controllable environmental factor that can affect the customer waiting time, which has some management implications for solving customer wait time problem in the service sector. This article used experimental management method, randomly selected a large restaurant, and then observed each customer just coming in, recorded backgrou...

In this paper, a descriptive comparative analysis is used to compare the use of educational technology in the developed and developing countries. In European countries advanced information technology is used in working groups while African countries have been unable to independently create and use new technologies in their education system. Iran is investing in information technology to be able...