PUBLICATIONS

Papers Published in Refereed Journals (English)

  1. [New!] ``Complementarities among Authority, Accountability, and Monitoring: Evidence from Japanese Business Groups,'' Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 22 (2008): 207-228 (joint with Tatsuya Kikutani and Osamu Hayashida).
  2. ``Moral Hazard and Other-Regarding Preferences,'' Japanese Economic Review 55 (2004), 18-45. (abstract)
  3. ``Corporate Restructuring in Japan, Part I: Can M-Form Organization Manage Diverse Businesses?'' Japanese Economic Review 54 (2003), 49-73. (abstract)
  4. ``Moral Hazard and Renegotiation with Multiple Agents,'' Review of Economic Studies 68 (2001), 1-20 (joint with Shingo Ishiguro). (abstract)
  5. ``Job Design, Delegation, and Cooperation: A Principal-Agent Analysis,'' European Economic Review 38 (1994), 691-700. (abstract)
  6. ``Coalitions, Incentives, and Risk Sharing,'' Journal of Economic Theory 60 (1993), 410-27. (abstract)
  7. ``Cooperation in Hierarchical Organizations: An Incentive Perspective,'' Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 8 (2) (1992), 321-45.
  8. ``Japanese Human Resource Management from the Viewpoint of Incentive Theory,'' Ricerche Economiche 45 (1991), 345-76.
  9. ``Incentives to Help in Multi-Agent Situations,'' Econometrica 59 (1991), 611-36.
  10. ``Information Processing Capacities of the Firm,'' Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 1 (1987), 299-326. (abstract)

Chapters in Books (English)

  1. ``Business Portfolio Restructuring of Japanese Firms in the 1990s: Entry and Exit Analysis,'' in Masahiko Aoki, Gregory Jackson, and Hideaki Miyajima (eds.), Corporate Governance in Japan: Institutional Change and Organizational Diversity. Oxford UK: Oxford University Press, 2007, 227-256. (Joint with Tatsuya Kikutani and Osamu Hayashida)
  2. ``Do Positions and Tenure of Top Executives Affect Their Attitude?'' in T. Tachibanaki (ed.), Who Runs Japanese Business?: Management and Motivation in the Firm. Edward Elgar, 1998. (Joint with Hiroshi Teruyama)
  3. ``Effort Incentives: Evidence from Japanese Data,'' in T. Tachibanaki (ed.), Who Runs Japanese Business?: Management and Motivation in the Firm. Edward Elgar, 1998. (Joint with Hiroshi Teruyama)
  4. ``Decentralised Personnel Management,'' in I. Ohashi and T. Tachibanaki (eds.), Internal Labour Market, Incentives and Employment. Macmillan Press, 1998. (Joint with Osamu Hayashida.)
  5. ``Coordination, Specialization, and Incentives in Product Development Organization,'' in M. Aoki and R. Dore (eds.), The Japanese Firm: The Sources of Competitive Strength. Oxford University Press (1994).

Others Scholarly Articles (English)

  1. ``Job Design and Incentives in Hierarchies with Team Production,'' Hitotsubashi Journal of Commerce and Management 36 (2001), 1-17. (pdf)
  2. ``The Economics of the `Company Man' '' Japanese Economic Studies 24 (6), November-December 1996, 29-55.
  3. ``Social Relations and Incentive Contracts,'' Kyoto University Economic Review 41 (1991), 35--55. (pdf)

Others

  1. [New!] ``Organizational Innovation and Corporate Performance,'' Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 22 (2008): 143-145 (joint with George Baker and Takeo Hoshi).
  2. Book Review: Small Firms in the Japanese Economy by D. Hugh Whittaker, Cambridge University Press. Journal of Economic Literature 36 (December 1998), 2186-8.
  3. ``Guest Editor's Introduction,'' Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 11 (1997), 314--318.
  4. Translation: Paul Milgrom and John Roberts, Economics, Organization and Management. Prentice-Hall, 1992 (with Masahiro Okuno-Fujiwara and Haruo Imai).
  5. Translation: John McMillan, Games, Strategies, and Managers: How Managers Can Use Game Theory to Make Better Business Decisions. Oxford University Press, 1992 (with Osamu Hayashida).
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