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Go Shimada - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a quantitative study of social capital in the tertiary sector of kobe has social capital promoted Economic Reconstruction since the great hanshin awaji earthquake
International journal of disaster risk reduction, 2017Co-Authors: Go ShimadaAbstract:Abstract After a huge natural disaster, what are the factors that make recovery of the society possible? This paper examines how social capital has worked in the process of recovery and Reconstruction in Kobe, Japan, since the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake in 1995. After ten years, the population of Kobe returned to its pre-earthquake level. It looks as though the city has recovered well. However, if we look closer, ward by ward data gives a different picture. Even if each ward suffered a similar level of damage, some have recovered faster than others. For this reason, this paper looks further into the factors that caused this difference. To analyze these factors, this paper focuses on the tertiary sector within Kobe because there has been a structural shift away from the secondary sector due to the damage caused by the earthquake. Additionally, the tertiary sector accounted for 80% of employment, the most important factor for Reconstruction over the mid- and long-term. The paper uses panel data from 1995 to 2010, and employs social capital proxies, such as households where three generations live together and crime rates, to examine the factors of recovery. The empirical analysis found that social capital is the factor that generates more jobs in the tertiary sector, thus, the factor that created the differences in the pattern of recovery among wards. The findings indicate the ways a recovery can be made faster after future natural disasters so as to create resilient societies.
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a quantitative study of social capital in the tertiary sector of kobe has social capital promoted Economic Reconstruction since the great hanshin awaji earthquake
Research Papers in Economics, 2014Co-Authors: Go ShimadaAbstract:Social capital is thought to have both positive and negative aspects. This paper examines how social capital has worked in the process of recovery and Reconstruction in Kobe since the Great Hanshin Awaji Earthquake. The paper focuses on the tertiary sector of Kobe because since the earthquake there has been a structural shift from the secondary sector due to the damage caused by the earthquake, and because the sector accounted for 80% of employment, the most important factor for Reconstruction in the mid- and long-term. The paper proves that both bonding and bridging social capital are important factors for employment. This finding provides empirical evidence for the on-going debate on how to rebuild Tohoku.
Sigmund Wagnertsukamoto - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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is god an economist an institutional Economic Reconstruction of the old testament
2009Co-Authors: Sigmund WagnertsukamotoAbstract:Introduction The Economic Approach to Reconstructing the Bible The Eden Story and Dilemma Analysis: A Paradise Lost On the Genesis of the Wealth of Nations On the Exodus of the Wealth of Nations Economic and Non-Economic Interpretations of God in the Old Testament Conclusions and After-Thoughts on the Economic Reconstruction of the Old Testament
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consumer ethics in japan an Economic Reconstruction of moral agency of japanese firms qualitative insights from grocery retail markets
Journal of Business Ethics, 2009Co-Authors: Sigmund WagnertsukamotoAbstract:The article reconstructs, in Economic terms, managerial business ethics perceptions in the Japanese consumer market for fast-moving daily consumption products. An Economic, three-level model of moral agency was applied that distinguishes unintentional moral agency, passive intentional moral agency and active intentional moral agency. The study took a qualitative approach and utilized as empirical research design an interview procedure. The study found that moral agency of Japanese firms mostly extended up to unintentional and intentional passive moral agency. Certain myopic managerial views were found to affect active moral agency. This leaves room for business ethics program that aim at the development of active moral agency.
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scientific management revisited did taylorism fail because of a too positive image of human nature
Journal of Management History, 2008Co-Authors: Sigmund WagnertsukamotoAbstract:Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to critically question conventional views of the one‐dimensional, mechanistic and negative image of human nature of Scientific Management. Both for worker behavior and for managerial behavior positive aspects of an image of human nature are reconstructed in organizational Economic terms.Design/methodology/approach – Through institutional Economic Reconstruction, drawing on the methods and concepts of organizational and institutional Economics, the portrayal of workers and managers by Scientific Management is critically assessed.Findings – It is suggested that a conceptual asymmetry exists in Taylor's writings regarding the portrayal of human nature of workers and managers. Whereas for workers a model of self‐interest was applied (through the concepts of “systematic soldering” and “natural soldiering”), Taylor portrayed managers through a positive, behavioral model of human nature that depicted the manager as “heartily cooperative”. The key thesis is that by modeling m...
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an institutional Economic Reconstruction of scientific management on the lost theoretical logic of taylorism
Academy of Management Review, 2007Co-Authors: Sigmund WagnertsukamotoAbstract:I argue that Taylor was a pioneer in theorizing principles of institutional Economics, and I challenge conventional preconceptions that scientific management is theoretically unsophisticated and aimed at disadvantaging certain organization members. I identify in Taylor's writings the institutional Economic ideas of dilemmatic interaction conflict regarding capital contributions and capital distributions, conflict resolution through incentives management, mutual gains as the outcome of conflict resolution, and the model of Economic man, and I suggest that Taylor's behavioral concept of hearty cooperation deviated from the Economic principles he had espoused regarding worker opportunism.
Yukari Shirota - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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stock prices growth pattern by the emergency demand after the great east japan earthquake
Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, 2017Co-Authors: Kenji Yamaguchi, Yuriko Yano, Yukari ShirotaAbstract:In many Japanese companies, stock prices were declining just after the Great East Japan Earthquake in Fukushima prefecture on March 11th, 2011. Especially, the North-East Japan companies were a lot damaged. However, on the other hand, some companies’ stock prices rose in the prefectures, such as YAMAYA. YAMAYA is an alcohol wholesaler and retailer company, and the headquarters are located in Sendai-city, the capital and biggest city of Miyagi Prefecture next to Fukushima. From our previous analysis, we concluded that the reason for the rapid growth of YAMAYA would be an increase of alcohol consumption by building construction workers, and others who gathered in Sendai-city. Therefore, their alcohol consumption was considered to be one of the triggers for the Economic Reconstruction in Sendai-city. In the paper, we conducted an analysis by the Random Matrix Theory to find growth companies in Japan similar to YAMAYA’s pattern. As a result, we found out that the emergency demand for drinking water had promoted the growth of drinking water makers like Coca-Cola CENTRAL JAPAN. The paper describes our Random Matrix Theory based approach to find out the similar growth pattern to YAMAYA.
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trigger of Economic Reconstruction from the east japan earthquake disaster
IEEE Region Humanitarian Technology Conference, 2013Co-Authors: Yukari Shirota, Takako Hashimoto, Takami SakuraAbstract:In many companies of the province of Tohoku (North-East Japan), stock prices were declining just after the East-Japan earthquake. However, on the other hand, some companies' stock prices rose in Tohoku. We have analyzed the reasons using text mining technologies on web data. In our studies, a combination of a stock price analysis and the text mining of the company can weave unexpected facts like a word associative game. First we surveyed stock prices of all listed companies that were headquartered in the damaged three prefectures in Tohoku. Then, we found the remarkable growth of YAMAYA which was an alcohol wholesaler and retailer company. The headquarters are located in Sendai-city, the capital and biggest city of Miyagi prefecture. On the other hand, we found YAMAZAWA's growth which was the same kind of an alcohol retailer company as YAMAYA. Although stock prices of almost all super markets in Tohoku intensely grew just after the disaster, the growth of YAMAYA and YAMAZAWA was distinguished. Therefore we conducted text mining to seek the reason of the company's stock price increase. As a result, we thought the alcohol consumption in Sendai-city caused the rapid stock price rises. In addition, from the comparison, we found that the recovery of YAMAZAWA's was quicker than that of YAMAYA's. We think that the reason for the YAMAYA's delay is that the earthquake damage in Sendai-city was larger than that in Yamagata. YAMAWA is headquartered in Sendai-city and YAMAZAWA is headquartered in Yamagata prefecture. The difference about locations would make the delay in the stock price recoveries. From the analysis, we inferred that an increase of alcohol consumption was one of the triggers for the Economic Reconstruction in Sendai-city. The paper discusses the Economic Reconstruction processes through increases of stock prices in the Tohoku province.
Jinwu Pang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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implementing china s water agenda 21
Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2006Co-Authors: Xiaoliu Yang, Jinwu PangAbstract:China's per capita available water is only 2220 m3, about a quarter of the world average. As a result, China faces an imbalance between the supply and demand of water for agricultural and general population use. Poor water resource development, wasteful usage, and water pollution are all exacerbating the problem. Water-related issues have seriously hampered Economic development in China, especially in recent decades, while the country has undergone rapid Economic growth. Implementing a sustainable water resource strategy is therefore vital. To meet the goals of national Economic Reconstruction and development, and to solve the water shortage problem, China's “Water Agenda 21” was formulated in 1998. This paper focuses on the implementation of this strategy and discusses China's approach to solving its water-shortage problems in order to safeguard sustainable socioEconomic development.
Takami Sakura - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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trigger of Economic Reconstruction from the east japan earthquake disaster
IEEE Region Humanitarian Technology Conference, 2013Co-Authors: Yukari Shirota, Takako Hashimoto, Takami SakuraAbstract:In many companies of the province of Tohoku (North-East Japan), stock prices were declining just after the East-Japan earthquake. However, on the other hand, some companies' stock prices rose in Tohoku. We have analyzed the reasons using text mining technologies on web data. In our studies, a combination of a stock price analysis and the text mining of the company can weave unexpected facts like a word associative game. First we surveyed stock prices of all listed companies that were headquartered in the damaged three prefectures in Tohoku. Then, we found the remarkable growth of YAMAYA which was an alcohol wholesaler and retailer company. The headquarters are located in Sendai-city, the capital and biggest city of Miyagi prefecture. On the other hand, we found YAMAZAWA's growth which was the same kind of an alcohol retailer company as YAMAYA. Although stock prices of almost all super markets in Tohoku intensely grew just after the disaster, the growth of YAMAYA and YAMAZAWA was distinguished. Therefore we conducted text mining to seek the reason of the company's stock price increase. As a result, we thought the alcohol consumption in Sendai-city caused the rapid stock price rises. In addition, from the comparison, we found that the recovery of YAMAZAWA's was quicker than that of YAMAYA's. We think that the reason for the YAMAYA's delay is that the earthquake damage in Sendai-city was larger than that in Yamagata. YAMAWA is headquartered in Sendai-city and YAMAZAWA is headquartered in Yamagata prefecture. The difference about locations would make the delay in the stock price recoveries. From the analysis, we inferred that an increase of alcohol consumption was one of the triggers for the Economic Reconstruction in Sendai-city. The paper discusses the Economic Reconstruction processes through increases of stock prices in the Tohoku province.
