THE ROLE OF INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES IN MAKING REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICIES: HOKKAIDO AS A CASE STUDY

The role of international development strategies in making regional development policies: Hokkaido as a case study

During the past decades, national governments and international institutions have both searched for ways to equalise disparities and revitalise lagging regions.Although ideas and examples of the most effective ways to achieve these goals originate in various places, their influence is inclined to permeate elsewhere.Therefore, the processes involved

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Strategic reactions to information content of dividend change: applying BCG growth share matrix when signalling hypothesis identified

The signaling hypothesis has been vastly under investigation for here many years.There are two attitudes towards this phenomenon; some believe that firms increase (decrease) their dividend to signal about the future increases in earnings due to asymmetric information that managers have.Adversely, others believe that firms usually increase their div

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