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Foreign Direct Investment: Ownership Advantages, Firm Specific Factors, Survival And Performance

By: Mehdi Rasouli Ghahroudi,Yasuo Hoshino,Stephen John Turnbull

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Foreign Direct Investment: Ownership Advantages, Firm Specific Factors, Survival And Performance

By: Mehdi Rasouli Ghahroudi,Yasuo Hoshino,Stephen John Turnbull

The purpose of the book is to extend and develop the literature on foreign direct investment (FDI) and multinational corporation (MNCs) subsidiaries. There are several reasons for studying foreign investment and ownership. First, firms need to identify which host country industry factors are important in choosing among the various type of equity ownership (e.g. international joint ventures or wholly-owned subsidiary). Second, international diversification through foreign market entry can provide growth and profitability at rates unavailable in home markets. A third reason this warrants some attention is that type of ownership can affect attempts to counter international competition by engaging foreign rivals on their home turf. Fourth, firms have the option of choosing the appropriate equity ownership for international markets based on balancing their resources, capabilities, and international experience with their desire for ownership and control. This book extends the literature in FDI by providing empirical support for several theories and previously defined and/or tested constructs. For example, the parent and subsidiary's factors measured in this study suggest the importance of internalization and ownership advantages of Dunning's eclectic theory.

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World Scientific

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9813238461

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9789813238466

Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence

Second International Conference, MDAI 2005, Tsukuba, Japan, July 25-27, 2005, Proceedings

By: Vicenç Torra,Yasuo Narukawa

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Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence

Second International Conference, MDAI 2005, Tsukuba, Japan, July 25-27, 2005, Proceedings

By: Vicenç Torra,Yasuo Narukawa

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence, MDAI 2005, held in Tsukuba, Japan in July 2005. The 40 revised full papers presented together with an introduction by the editors and 4 invited lectures were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 118 submissions. The papers are devoted to theory and tools for modeling decisions, as well as applications that encompass decision making processes and information fusion techniques. Special focus is given to applications related with risk, security and safety.

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481

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540278710

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9783540278719

Atlas of the Ear

By Scanning Electron Microscopy

By: Yasuo Harada

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Atlas of the Ear

By Scanning Electron Microscopy

By: Yasuo Harada

The physiology of the semicircular canals was my main research interest before I began to study their morphology. In 1966, by utilizing the isolated semicircular canal of the frog, I was able to show that cell activity in the horizontal semicircular canal has the opposite polarity to that in the vertical canals, which was the first physiological proof of Ewald's law. Several transmitting electron microscope (TEM) studies had already reported on the morphology of the semicircular canal cristae; however, my morphological work was motivated by a strong desire to see whether the morphological polarity accorded to the physio logical polarity. In 1968 I happened to see the paper written by Dr David Lim, one of my close friends. His findings concerning the vestibular morphology, when examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), fascinated me a great deal because of the three-dimensional quality of the micro graphs. This stimulated me to become involved in vestibular morphol ogy. In the beginning, however, I faced many problems with specimen preparation for SEM, and the first few years were spent simply solving technical problems, especially those of artifacts. Many of the figures in this book have been photographed with a JEOL JSM U-3 scanning electron microscope over a decade. The sharpness of these pictures still, I think, bears comparison to the defi nition of those taken by the more sophisticated SEM scopes currently available.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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9400965982

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9789400965980

National Integration and Local Power in Japan

By: Yasuo Takao

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National Integration and Local Power in Japan

By: Yasuo Takao

First published in 1999, this book offers a new study of local government in Japan. There is an enormous amount of information about Japanese local government that has not yet appeared in English. With the author’s local familiarity, elected local officials and local residents have been extraordinarily open and forthcoming. This allows a rethinking of the topic by mobilising a multitude of solid factual material. Japan has dealt with the dramatically increased public sector, but has done so in a setting of institutional centralisation. How has central authority sought to find ways of managing the continuous expansion of state activities? How have local authorities responded to central government’s initiative in integrating state administration? The answers the book gives to these questions present an alternative understanding of Japanese local government.

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Routledge

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0429820062

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9780429820069

The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy

By: Yasuo Yuasa

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The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy

By: Yasuo Yuasa

This book is an inquiry into ki-energy, its role within Eastern mind-body theory, and its implications for our contemporary Western understanding of the body. Yuasa examines the concept of ki-energy as it has been used in such areas as acupuncture, Buddhist and Taoist meditation, and the martial arts. To explain the achievement of mind-body oneness in these traditions he offers an innovative schematization of the lived body. His approach is interdisciplinary and cross-cultural, offering insights into Western philosophy, religion, medical science, depth psychology, parapsychology, theater, and physical education. To substantiate the relationship that ki-energy forms between the human body and its environment, Yuasa introduces contemporary scientific research on ki-energy in China and Japan, as well as evidence from acupuncture medicine and from the experience of meditators and martial arts practitioners. This evidence requires not only a rethinking of the living human body and of the mind-body and mind-matter relation, but also calls into question the adequacy of the existing scientific paradigm. Yuasa calls for an epistemological critique of modern science and explores the issue of the relation of teleology to science.

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SUNY Press

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0791416232

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9780791416235

Book's by Yasuo Hoshino

Foreign Direct Investment: Ownership Advantages, Firm Specific Factors, Survival And Performance

Foreign Direct Investment: Ownership Advantages, Firm Specific Factors, Survival And Performance

Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence

Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence

Atlas of the Ear

Atlas of the Ear

National Integration and Local Power in Japan

National Integration and Local Power in Japan

The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy

The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy

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