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Japanese New Product Advantage: A Comparative Examination

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  1. College of Business Administration, University of Illinois-Chicago, USA

    Cheryl Nakata (Associate Professor of Marketing and International Business)

  2. College of Business, San Francisco State University, USA

    Subin Im (Assistant Professor of Marketing)

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  1. Institut für Technologie- und Innovationsmanagement, TU Hamburg-Harburg, Schwarzenbergstrasse 95, 21073, Hamburg, Germany

    Cornelius Herstatt  & Christoph Stockstrom  & 

  2. Technology and Innovation Management, ETH Zürich, Kreuzplatz 5, 8032, Zurich, Switzerland

    Hugo Tschirky

  3. Graduate School of Engineering Management of Science and Technology (MOST), Tohoku University, 04 Aza-Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai City Miyagi Prefecture, 980-8579, Japan

    Akio Nagahira

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Nakata, C., Im, S. (2006). Japanese New Product Advantage: A Comparative Examination. In: Herstatt, C., Stockstrom, C., Tschirky, H., Nagahira, A. (eds) Management of Technology and Innovation in Japan. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31248-X_13

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