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Issues on Entrepreneurship and Human Resource Development in Japanese Farm Business

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This chapter presents brief views of the situation of the studies on entrepreneurship and human resource development in Japanese farm business from theoretical and empirical perspectives. Then, it clarifies the characteristics of the entreprenurship and human resource development in farm business based on the comparative analysis with SME of manufacturing. Finally it shows the research issues on this topic.

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Kiminami, A. (2019). Issues on Entrepreneurship and Human Resource Development in Japanese Farm Business. In: Kiminami, A. (eds) Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Japanese Agriculture. New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, vol 32. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-8055-6_1

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