Asia Pacific Business Review Vol. 14‚ No. 3‚ 285–291‚ July 2008 Innovation in Japan: An Introduction KEITH JACKSON* & PHILIPPE DEBROUX** *Centre for Financial & Management Studies (CeFiMS)‚ School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS)‚ University of London‚ London‚ **Faculty of Business Administration‚ Soka University‚ Tokyo‚ Japan ABSTRACT Because of the depth and scope of its innovation system‚ Japan is a reference country in terms of developments in the management of innovation. Japan
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Schoolhouse or Home School? What do George Washington and the Hanson brothers have in common? Do you give up? Well‚ the answer is that both of them were educated in their homes. Queen Elizabeth‚ Thomas Edison‚ and Theodore Roosevelt were also educated at home. According to the Home Education Research Institute‚ 1.5 million students are staying home for class today. This number is five times more than ten years ago (Kantrow and Wingert 66). This trend leads to many questions. Does home school education
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Reading Response to "The Importance of Work" "The Importance of Work" is an essay from The Feminine Mystique‚ by Betty Friedan. It states that women should hold jobs equivalent to men‚ since "women‚ like men‚ can only find their identity in work that uses their full capacities (578)." Friedan wrote this to help inspire women to go into the work force and seek "self-realization‚ self-fulfillment‚ and identity (576)." She warns that if women do not put forth the effort to become all they can
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The importance of music – Felix Jansson SA2 + Alicia’s comments Music has infiltrated every aspect of our society and culture during the course of thousands of years. In ancient Greece‚ music where everywhere from the slums to the palaces‚ today is no different. Music exists everywhere in our society and culture today and does an excellent job of reflecting it. Looking through the history of music‚ one can learn a lot since it reflects the time in which it was produced; the hardships of the
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to fulfill a mission as large as the one Army undertakes. That mission summarized boils down to national defense with the primary responsibility being the land domain. The focus of this essay being the importance of accountability in the scope of Army operations. We will discuss the importance of accountability as it pertains to personnel‚ equipment‚ and time. At the end‚
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In organization Synergy becomes very important. Take an organization of your choice and bring out the importance of Synergy in making the organization more productive. Synergy means that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. In organizational terms‚ synergy means that as separate departments within an organization cooperate and interact‚ they become more productive than if each were to act in segregation. The concept of synergy is resulting from the systems approach in which the management
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WHY READING LITERATURE IS/IS NOT IMPORTANT? A Personal Definition of Literature There are a lot of things that come to mind when a person hears the word literature. Usually‚ one thinks of a book‚ story‚ classical work or some variation of the aforementioned but to ask someone to define the term literature‚ proves to be a much trickier task. Many are stumped when asked this question. People often answer by giving examples of literary works but fail to actually give an encompassing definition
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Introduction: HRM‘s role and importance within an organization has increased rapidly in the modern business world as the individuals’ inputs are becoming increasingly important to the organization’s performance. Hence HRM is becoming more important as it plays an important role in the people-aspect and social-aspect of the organization. This paper will briefly explain the definition of HRM and its history. Then this paper will list and explain the important functions of HRM. Furthermore‚ this
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THE IMPORTANCE OF MATHEMATICS W. T. Gowers It is with some disbelief that I stand here and prepare to address this gathering on the subject of the importance of mathematics. For a start‚ it is an extraordinary honour to be invited to give the keynote address at a millennium meeting in Paris. Secondly‚ giving a lecture on the significance of mathematics demands wisdom‚ judgment and maturity‚ and there are many mathematicians far better endowed than I am with these qualities‚ including several
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important in each area. Without any form of language‚ any cooperation and communication would be almost‚ if not totally impossible. Since equality cannot be measured in this case‚ I will explain my thesis in the following manner: I will clarify the importance of language by explaining its role in each category. As well as explaining how the other ways of knowing are not as significant in the areas of knowledge but it is included as my counter claim. The issues concerning language and knowledge call
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