Akihiko Ohno
Biographic Data
| ID | 6494520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Akihiko Ohno |
| GIVEN NAMES | Akihiko |
| FAMILY NAME | Ohno |
| SIGNATURE | OHNO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aoyama Gakuin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6119-7789 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Managers' Beliefs About Employees and Human Resource Management Strategies
This article explores how plant managers' beliefs regarding their employees influence human resource management (HRM) strategies, emphasizing the contrasting perspectives of economics and organizational science. The data for this study were collected from 629 sewing machine operators and 105 plant managers in Myanmar's garment industry. The findings reveal three key points: (1) Economic and social exchanges shape employees' behavior; (2) Managers…
Savings Groups and Rural Financial Markets
Savings groups/credit unions serve as a financial intermediary within a village by mobilizing savings from rural households and extending loans to them. This system often encounters an issue of excess funds when total savings exceed loan demands within a credit union. In Thailand rural financial markets created by savings groups are segregated not only from those created by other savings groups but also from formal financial markets. Excess funds…
Informal Network Finance as a Risk Coping Device in Mountainous Laos ( Savings Groups in Laos from a Comparative Perspective)
Rural households in developing countries face difficulty in no small part in managing emergent expenditures on various events. It is commonly observed that rural households put up money for each other and swap small amounts of rice or other food stuffs with neighbors to cope with idiosyncratic shocks. This network finance plays an important role in supporting rural households facing an emergency with little or no administrative cost, especially i…
Performance of Savings Groups in Mountainous Laos under Shifting Cultivation Stabilization Policy ( Savings Groups in Laos from a Comparative Perspective)
The shifting cultivation stabilization policy after the mid-1990s in northern Laos had a fundamental impact on rural lives, including an accelerated migration of non-Lao ethnic people. Based on household-level detailed data collected in 2010.11 from eight villages in Luang Prabang Province, we analyze first the differential impacts of such a policy on different types of villages in terms of location (access to urban centers), land endowments, eth…
An Analysis on Borrowing Behavior of Rural Households in Vientiane Municipality
Since the late 1990s the savings groups have been introduced in the villages of Laos. This movement has offered new borrowing opportunities for the rural people. Based on household survey using a structured questionnaire in four study villages (N=684) in Vientiane Municipality during 2007.08 we analyzed the role and performance of the savings group in rural financial markets, especially focusing on who borrows, from which sources, and for what pu…
Introduction
In Laos, ROSCAs called "houei" can be widely observed in rural areas
Attitudes and Behavior of the First Generation of Factory Wokers
The mode of working life required in moderD factories differs markedly from that in agriculture or rural household industries In the initial phase of industrialization factory workers socialized in a traditional working mUieu are obliged to strictly observe factory rules and constantly apply themselves to their assignment under the hierarchy of forma - lized supervision The purpose of this research is to empirically explore the attitudebehavior l…
Market Formation in the Rural Garment and Weaving Industries in Northern Thailand
The aim of this paper is to identify the socioeconomic factors that facilitated the market competitiveness of two rural household industries the hand -weaving and garment industries in northern Thailand From the mid -1980 the reg on witnessed the dynamic growth of these industries in concurrence with the emergence of largescale factories In this situation rural entrepreneurs created apprQpriate new strategies for placing their products on the urb…
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Market Formation in the Rural Garment and Weaving Industries in Northern Thailand
The aim of this paper is to identify the socioeconomic factors that facilitated the market competitiveness of two rural household industries the hand -weaving and garment industries in northern Thailand From the mid -1980 the reg on witnessed the dynamic growth of these industries in concurrence with the emergence of largescale factories In this situation rural entrepreneurs created apprQpriate new strategies for placing their products on the urb…
Attitudes and Behavior of the First Generation of Factory Wokers
The mode of working life required in moderD factories differs markedly from that in agriculture or rural household industries In the initial phase of industrialization factory workers socialized in a traditional working mUieu are obliged to strictly observe factory rules and constantly apply themselves to their assignment under the hierarchy of forma - lized supervision The purpose of this research is to empirically explore the attitudebehavior l…
Savings Groups and Rural Financial Markets
Savings groups/credit unions serve as a financial intermediary within a village by mobilizing savings from rural households and extending loans to them. This system often encounters an issue of excess funds when total savings exceed loan demands within a credit union. In Thailand rural financial markets created by savings groups are segregated not only from those created by other savings groups but also from formal financial markets. Excess funds…
Informal Network Finance as a Risk Coping Device in Mountainous Laos ( Savings Groups in Laos from a Comparative Perspective)
Rural households in developing countries face difficulty in no small part in managing emergent expenditures on various events. It is commonly observed that rural households put up money for each other and swap small amounts of rice or other food stuffs with neighbors to cope with idiosyncratic shocks. This network finance plays an important role in supporting rural households facing an emergency with little or no administrative cost, especially i…
Performance of Savings Groups in Mountainous Laos under Shifting Cultivation Stabilization Policy ( Savings Groups in Laos from a Comparative Perspective)
The shifting cultivation stabilization policy after the mid-1990s in northern Laos had a fundamental impact on rural lives, including an accelerated migration of non-Lao ethnic people. Based on household-level detailed data collected in 2010.11 from eight villages in Luang Prabang Province, we analyze first the differential impacts of such a policy on different types of villages in terms of location (access to urban centers), land endowments, eth…
An Analysis on Borrowing Behavior of Rural Households in Vientiane Municipality
Since the late 1990s the savings groups have been introduced in the villages of Laos. This movement has offered new borrowing opportunities for the rural people. Based on household survey using a structured questionnaire in four study villages (N=684) in Vientiane Municipality during 2007.08 we analyzed the role and performance of the savings group in rural financial markets, especially focusing on who borrows, from which sources, and for what pu…
Introduction
In Laos, ROSCAs called "houei" can be widely observed in rural areas
Managers' Beliefs About Employees and Human Resource Management Strategies
This article explores how plant managers' beliefs regarding their employees influence human resource management (HRM) strategies, emphasizing the contrasting perspectives of economics and organizational science. The data for this study were collected from 629 sewing machine operators and 105 plant managers in Myanmar's garment industry. The findings reveal three key points: (1) Economic and social exchanges shape employees' behavior; (2) Managers…
Business (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Economic growth (3 works) · Finance (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Microfinance and Financial Inclusion (3 works) · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies (3 works) · Agriculture (2 works) · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact (2 works) · Loan (2 works)