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Toru Yoshikawa

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Convergence of corporate governance: Critical review and future directions

T Yoshikawa, AA Rasheed - Corporate Governance: An …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT Manuscript Type: Review Research Question/Issue: Convergence in corporate
governance across countries has been a subject of interest and controversy in a variety of …

Overwork-related disorders in Japan: recent trends and development of a national policy to promote preventive measures

T Yamauchi, T Yoshikawa, M Takamoto, T Sasaki… - Industrial …, 2017 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Overwork-related disorders, such as cerebrovascular/cardiovascular diseases (CCVD) and
mental disorders due to overwork, are a major occupational and public health issue …

Effects of board structure on firm performance: A comparison between Japan and Australia

I Bonn, T Yoshikawa, PH Phan - Asian Business & Management, 2004 - Springer
This article compares the effects of board size, proportion of female directors, proportion of
outside directors and average age of directors on firm performance in Japanese and …

Do shareholders or stakeholders appropriate the rents from corporate diversification? The influence of ownership structure

P David, JP O'Brien, T Yoshikawa… - Academy of Management …, 2010 - journals.aom.org
Prior work on the performance consequences of corporate diversification has treated all
powerful owners as seeking the same benefits from diversification (ie, higher profit rather …

The implications of debt heterogeneity for R&D investment and firm performance

P David, JP O'Brien, T Yoshikawa - Academy of Management …, 2008 - journals.aom.org
An assumption in prior research is that debt is homogeneous and provides inappropriate
governance for R&D investments. We argue that debt is heterogeneous: although …

Family control and ownership monitoring in family‐controlled firms in Japan

T Yoshikawa, AA Rasheed - Journal of Management Studies, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
abstract This paper focuses on a type of firms that have been traditionally neglected in both
family business and governance research, namely, family‐controlled, publicly‐listed firms …

[PDF][PDF] Comparative analyses of copy-number variation in autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia reveal etiological overlap and biological insights

I Kushima, B Aleksic, M Nakatochi, T Shimamura… - Cell reports, 2018 - cell.com
Compelling evidence in Caucasian populations suggests a role for copy-number variations
(CNVs) in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia (SCZ). We analyzed 1,108 …

Strategic investments in Japanese corporations: Do foreign portfolio owners foster underinvestment or appropriate investment?

P David, T Yoshikawa, MDR Chari… - Strategic Management …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates the effect of foreign ownership on strategic investments in Japanese
corporations. Foreign owners are typically portfolio investors who frequently buy and sell …

Corporate governance reform as institutional innovation: The case of Japan

T Yoshikawa, LS Tsui-Auch… - Organization science, 2007 - pubsonline.informs.org
To address the convergence-divergence debate in corporate governance, we conduct a
multiple-case, multiple-level study to analyze the diffusion of governance innovation in …

Participatory intervention for workplace improvements on mental health and job performance among blue-collar workers: a cluster randomized controlled trial

A Tsutsumi, M Nagami, T Yoshikawa… - … of Occupational and …, 2009 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To explore the effect of participatory intervention for workplace improvement on
mental health and job performance. Methods: Eleven assembly lines were randomly …