| Project/Area Number |
12630140
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Business administration
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
SAKANO Tomoaki Waseda University, School of Commerce, Professor, 商学部, 教授 (40139506)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
FUJITA Makoto Waseda University, School of Commerce, Professor, 商学部, 教授 (00199340)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2002
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| Project Status |
Completed (Fiscal Year 2002)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥3,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
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| Keywords | Organizational Restructuring / Strategy / Financial Services / Global Firms / IT / Retailers / NOFIA / ノンバンク / 情報化 / アジア経済危機 / 金融業 / 流通業 / 情報技術 |
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| Research Abstract |
The overall goal of this research project was to create s longitudinal data base of publicly available accounts published in newspaper, magazines, and annual reports for strategy changes and organizational restructurings in Japanese retailing, financial services and automobile industries between 1985 and 2001. Ultimately we attempted to search for the new dominant corporate strategies and organizational designs. After completing the data collection process, a restructuring classification grid was created. Each account is classified on two dimensions, type of change and locus of change in the organization. Next each account was analyzed in regards to creating and achieving capabilities of flexibility, adaptability and responsiveness and in terms of innovating organization forms and practices.
Based on the database we performed several empirical studies. For example, we set out to investigate changes in marketing practices by European, Japanese and US firms after the Asian economic crisis. The nation-state form of capitalism created a system of constraints which affected the type and direction of changes. Japanese firms generally did not engage in radical changes. US firms were willing to engage in radical changes. European firms went between them. Also, we analyzed the impacts of rate ceiling introduced in June 2000 on strategy changes of Japanese financial services firms. The firms greatly intensified exploitation strategy responses relative to exploration responses. We furthermore found the mediating effect of size. Smaller firms tended to engaged in incremental strategic changes while larger firms implemented radical changes.
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