Extracting new variables and empirical study in the comparative research of industrial agglomeration.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate mechanisms and institutions of Japanese glasses industry and glasses-frame industrial agglomeration that has maintained competitive advantage, despite labor-intensive industry. The data used in this research was as follows. One was the text data that was collected by interview, and consists of 1,500,000 characters. Another was the text data that was extracted from trade magazines of 40 years, and consists of 1,800,000 characters. From the result of this analysis, we concluded that the prime cause of low business performance of Japanese glasses-frame industrial agglomeration was not low-cost imported goods, but institutional environment which prevented companies of glasses industry from adapting to environmental change.