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Research on organizational structure of public utilities and determinants of efficiency from transaction-cost perspective

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15K17049
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Economic policy
Research InstitutionKobe University

Principal Investigator

Nakamura Eri  神戸大学, 経営学研究科, 准教授 (00611071)

Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) MIZUTANI Fumitoshi  神戸大学, 経営学研究科, 教授 (60263365)
SHOJI Kenichi  神戸大学, 経営学研究科, 教授 (70127372)
SAKAI Hiroki  神戸大学, 海事科学研究科, 准教授 (20612336)
Project Period (FY) 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,950,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥450,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Keywords公益事業 / ガバナンス / 取引費用 / 組織の経済学 / 鉄道事業 / コンフリクト / 最適組織 / 非効率性
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project revealed the relationship between transaction costs in a corporate group and governance on group firms. Transaction costs are the costs required for a certain transaction including monitoring and searching costs. The analysis on railway groups revealed that of managers' temporary transfer to group firms contributes to a reduction on transaction costs and that this effect of managers' temporary transfer could be substituted for human resource development scheme or organizational structure. The analysis on information and communication industry revealed that group size involved in a transaction and the duration and the frequency of transaction are the important factors in measuring transaction costs between group firms.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (11 results)

All 2018 2017 2016 2015

All Journal Article (9 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 5 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (1 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 1 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] The Effect of Demand Response on Electricity Consumption under the Existence of the Reference Price Effect: Evidence from a Dynamic Pricing Experiment in Japan2018

    • Author(s)
      Mizutani, F., T. Tanaka, and E. Nakamura
    • Journal Title

      The Electricity Journal

      Volume: 31(1) Issue: 1 Pages: 16-22

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.tej.2018.01.004

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Regulation, Public Interest, and Private Interest: An Empirical Investigation of Firms in Japan2018

    • Author(s)
      Mizutani, F. and E. Nakamura
    • Journal Title

      Empirical Economics

      Volume: - Issue: 4 Pages: 1433-1454

    • DOI

      10.1007/s00181-017-1389-0

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Measuring and Exploring Intra-Organisational Transaction Costs of Spontaneous and Intentional Governance: Case Study of the Austrian Telecommunication Industry2017

    • Author(s)
      Eri Nakamura
    • Journal Title

      Kobe University Discussion Paper Series 2017.31

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Managers’ Temporary Transfer to Reduce Transaction Costs between Business Units: Case Study on Japanese Railway Groups having Holding Company Structure2017

    • Author(s)
      Eri Nakamura, Hiroki Sakai, and Ken'ichi Shoji
    • Journal Title

      Kobe University Discussion Paper Series

      Volume: 3 Pages: 1-19

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] How Do Governance Factors Affect Inefficiency? A Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Public Utility Firms in Japan2016

    • Author(s)
      Fumitoshi Mizutani and Eri Nakamura
    • Journal Title

      Economia e Politica Industriale

      Volume: -

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Is Corporate Social Responsibility in Japanese Firms at the Theoretically Derived Achievable Level? An Analysis of CSR Inefficiency Using a Stochastic Frontier Model2016

    • Author(s)
      Nakamura, E.
    • Journal Title

      Business and Society Review

      Volume: forthcoming

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Journal Article] Electricity Saving Behavior of Households by Making Efforts, Replacing Appliances, and Renovations: Empirical Analysis using a Multivariate Ordered Probit Model2016

    • Author(s)
      Nakamura, E.
    • Journal Title

      Kobe University Discussion Paper Series

      Volume: 01 Pages: 1-25

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] Factors Affecting Inefficiency Level: Stochastic Frontier Analysis of Public Utility Firms in Japan2016

    • Author(s)
      Mizutani, F. and E. Nakamura
    • Journal Title

      Kobe University Discussion Paper Series

      Volume: 02 Pages: 1-21

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] The Bidirectional CSR Investment – Economic Performance Relationship2015

    • Author(s)
      Nakamura, E.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Global Responsibility

      Volume: 6(1) Pages: 128-144

    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] The Effects of Managers’ Temporary Transfer on Transaction Costs between Business Units: A Case Study on Holding Company Management of Japanese Railway Group2017

    • Author(s)
      Eri Nakamura
    • Organizer
      European Regional Science Association, Groningen, Netherlands, 1st September, 2017.
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] The Routledge Companion to Network Industries2016

    • Author(s)
      Mizutani, F., S. Uranishi, and E. Nakamura
    • Total Pages
      423
    • Publisher
      Routledge
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report

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Published: 2015-04-16   Modified: 2019-03-29  

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