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  1. Impacts of management training on workers: Evidence from Central America and the Caribbean region

    Article • Review of Development Economics, March 2021, Wiley

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  2. Teaching KAIZEN to small business owners: An experiment in a metalworking cluster in Nairobi

    Article • Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, September 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  3. Willingness to pay for managerial training: A case from the knitwear industry in Northern Vietnam

    Article • Journal of Comparative Economics, August 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe, Vu Hoang Nam

  4. Differences in Management Practices and Productivity in Micro and Small Enterprises in Industrial Clusters

    Article • Journal of International Commerce Economics and Policy, June 2014, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  5. Cluster-Based Industrial Development

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  6. What determines the performance of small enterprises in developing countries? Evidence from the handloom industry in Bangladesh

    Article • International Journal of Business and Globalisation, January 2013, Inderscience Publishers

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe, Dr Khondoker A. Mottaleb

  7. The Development Process of Rural Informal Industries in Developing Countries: The Case of Bangladesh

    Article • The Journal of Developing Areas, January 2013, Project Muse

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe, Dr Khondoker A. Mottaleb

  8. FIGHTING CORRUPTION IN BANGLADESH: A POLICY PROPOSAL

    Article • International Journal of Development and Conflict, December 2012, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  9. Productivity Growth and Job Creation in the Development Process of Industrial Clusters

    Article • November 2012

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  10. How Can Micro and Small Enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa Become More Productive? The Impacts of Experimental Basic Managerial Training

    Article • World Development, March 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  11. Global Value Chains and Market Formation Process in Emerging Export Activity: Evidence from Ethiopian Flower Industry

    Article • The Journal of Development Studies, March 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  12. Virtual Incubation in Industrial Clusters: A Case Study in Pakistan

    Article • The Journal of Development Studies, March 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  13. The role of human capital in firm performance: evidence from the engineering industry in Bangladesh

    Article • International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, January 2012, Inderscience Publishers

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe, Dr Khondoker A. Mottaleb

  14. An Inquiry into the Rapid Growth of the Garment Industry in Bangladesh

    Article • Economic Development and Cultural Change, October 2011, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe, Dr Khondoker A. Mottaleb

  15. How Can Micro and Small Enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa Become More Productive? The Impacts of Experimental Basic Managerial Training

    Article • August 2011

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  16. A Cluster-Based Industrial Development Policy for Low-Income Countries

    Article • June 2011

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  17. Entrepreneurial Skills and Industrial Development: The Case of a Car Repair and Metalworking Cluster in Ghana

    Article • Journal of the Knowledge Economy, May 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  18. Efficiency of Land Allocation through Tenancy Markets: Evidence from China

    Article • Economic Development and Cultural Change, April 2011, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  19. Cluster-Based Industrial Development

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  20. Business Incubators in China: An Inquiry into the Variables Associated with Incubatee Success

    Article • Economics, January 2011, ZBW - German National Library of Economics

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  21. Development of Science and Technology Parks in China, 1988–2008

    Article • Economics, January 2011, ZBW - German National Library of Economics

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  22. An Inquiry into the Development Process of Village Industries: The Case of a Knitwear Cluster in Northern Vietnam

    Article • The Journal of Development Studies, February 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe, Vu Hoang Nam

  23. An inquiry into the transformation process of village-based industrial clusters: The case of an iron and steel cluster in northern Vietnam

    Article • Journal of Comparative Economics, December 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe, Vu Hoang Nam

  24. An Exploration into the Successful Development of the Leather‐Shoe Industry in Ethiopia

    Article • Review of Development Economics, October 2009, Wiley

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  25. The growth process of informal enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa: a case study of a metalworking cluster in Nairobi

    Article • Small Business Economics, July 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  26. Beyond the Environmental Kuznets Curve: a comparative study of SO2 and CO2 emissions between Japan and China

    Article • Environment and Development Economics, June 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  27. Industrial development in the inland region of China: A case study of the motorcycle industry

    Article • Journal of Comparative Economics, December 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  28. The Division of Labor and the Formation of Industrial Clusters in Taiwan

    Article • Review of Development Economics, February 2006, Wiley

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  29. Cluster-Based Industrial Development

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  30. Time path in innovation, imitation, and growth: the case of the motorcycle industry in postwar Japan

    Article • Journal of Evolutionary Economics, April 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  31. From inferior to superior products: an inquiry into the Wenzhou model of industrial development in China

    Article • Journal of Comparative Economics, September 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  32. Changing Roles of Innovation and Imitation in Industrial Development: The Case of the Machine Tool Industry in Taiwan*

    Article • Economic Development and Cultural Change, October 2003, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  33. Productivity Effects of TVE Privatization: The Case Study of Garment and Metal Casting Enterprises in the Greater Yangtze River Region

    Article • April 2003, National Bureau of Economic Research

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  34. A new decomposition approach to growth accounting: derivation of the formula and its application to prewar Japan

    Article • Japan and the World Economy, January 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  35. Evolution of land tenure institutions and development of agroforestry: evidence from customary land areas of Sumatra

    Article • Agricultural Economics, June 2000, Wiley

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  36. EDITORS' INTRODUCTION

    Article • Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, December 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  37. Business Incubators in China: An Inquiry into the Variables Associated with Incubatee Success

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  38. An Inquiry into the Development of Science and Technology Parks in China

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Science Electronic Publishing

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe

  39. Productivity Effects of TVE Privatization

    Article • University of Chicago Press

    Professor Tetsushi Sonobe