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Research on the Relation Between Organizational Change of Company and Social Change

Research Project

Project/Area Number 01450034
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research InstitutionKansai University

Principal Investigator

TAKASE Takenori  KANSAI UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF SOCIOLOGY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 社会学部, 助教授 (90187956)

Project Period (FY) 1989 – 1990
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 1990)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000)
Fiscal Year 1990: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 1989: ¥2,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,600,000)
KeywordsOrganization / Social Change / Company / Population Ecology / Life Time Analysis / Structural Inertia / 工場組織
Research Abstract

In order to integrate social change theories and population ecological model for organizational analysis I examined the applicability of organizational ecology model to the study on Japanese organizations. I compiled longitudinal data about the life time of factory organizations in 5 prefectures and company organizations in 1 prefecture from back numbers of directories and records of interviews. Especially I used the data of Kanagawa prefecture to investigate the validity of the assumptions of the model.
As a result, I found that we need to revise some assumptions of population ecological perspective to apply it to the organizations in Japan. Above all, In the analysis of the data, I found some remarkable tendencies of 'structural inertia' that is one of the most basic assumptions of the perspective.
1 When organizational environment is not stable, we can observe an age effect on structural inertia, but when the environment is stable, we cannot.
2 We can observe the inertia in some respects such as staying in the same industry but we cannot observe it in size in both capital and the number of members.
3 How successful an organization can adapt to its environment is dependent on the initial conditions of itself and independent on the strategies which it adopts in its life course.

Report

(3 results)
  • 1990 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 1989 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All Other

All Publications (7 results)

  • [Publications] 高瀬 武典: "構造的慣性か戦略的適応か" 理論と方法. 第4巻第2号. 41-55 (1989)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 高瀬 武典: "組織の生成期における安定化過程について" 関西大学社会学部紀要. 第21巻第2号. 181-203 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] TAKASE, Takenori: "Structural Inertia or Strategic Adaptation ?" Sociological theory and Methods. Vol. 4, No. 2. 41-55 (1989)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] TAKASE, Takenori: "On the Stabilizing Processes of New Organizations." Bulletin of the Faculty of Sociology, Kamsai University. Vol. 21, No. 2. 207-222 (1990)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      1990 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 高瀬 武典: "組織の生態学" 直井優・盛山和夫・間々田孝夫編『日本社会のニュ-ウェ-ブ』所収(東京大学出版会)平成4年3月刊行予定.

    • Related Report
      1990 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 高瀬武典: "構造的慣性か戦略的適応か" 理論と方法. 4巻2号. 41-55 (1989)

    • Related Report
      1989 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] 高瀬武典: "組織の生成期における安定化過程について" 関西大学社会学部紀要. 21巻2号. (1990)

    • Related Report
      1989 Annual Research Report

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Published: 1989-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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