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INDUSTRIAL PERFORMANCE AND COMPETITION: THE CASE OF JAPANESE MANUFACTURING
Author(s) -
Bhattacharya Mita
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
pacific economic review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.34
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1468-0106
pISSN - 1361-374X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2007.00375.x
Subject(s) - openness to experience , competition (biology) , economics , profit (economics) , industrial organization , manufacturing , economies of scale , product differentiation , international economics , international trade , business , market economy , microeconomics , marketing , welfare , psychology , social psychology , ecology , biology
. The paper analyses the competitive process and performance behaviour of Japanese manufacturing between 1985 and 1997. Technological changes, international competition and reducing barriers in domestic and international markets are playing a significant role to speed up the performance behaviour in Japanese manufacturing. Scale economies, product differentiation and openness of the economy are used in explaining profit behaviour of manufacturing firms. Findings are compared with existing studies from Japan as well as from other developed countries such as Australia and the USA.