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The study on the purchasing of Ministry of Communications and corporate activity in the interwar period

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17530271
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Economic history
Research InstitutionAoyama Gakuin University

Principal Investigator

HASEGAWA Shin  Aoyama Gakuin University, School of Business, Professor, 経営学部, 教授 (40144050)

Project Period (FY) 2005 – 2006
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2006)
Budget Amount *help
¥1,800,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000)
Fiscal Year 2006: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,100,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000)
Keywordstelecommunications / communication equipment industry / Ministry of Communications / automatic switchboard / industrial policy / Nippon Electric Co. / optional contract / 経済史
Research Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze the change of Ministry of Communications purchasing, focusing on corporate activity in the Interwar Period. In 2006, the corporate activity of the main communication equipment makers, which became "a designated factory" of Ministry of Communications, was mainly studied. The name of a main communication equipment maker as "a designated factory" entered in the specifications of Ministry of Communications, and Ministry of Communications got authority to place an order for optionally depending on technology and productive capacity for communication equipment makers. As Ministry of Communication got possible to grasp inside information about technology and productive capacity of main makers, Ability for adjustment of Ministry of Communications rose, and a smooth supply of communications equipment was enabled thereby. On the other hand, the communication equipment makers concluded a cartel agreement about an automatic switchboard and began from partial cooperation and came to make minute use of a cartel agreement. From a viewpoint of a long-term change of a purchasing method, the optional contract method was formed during the beginning in 1930's from the end in 1920's. The optional contract method is succeeded as a purchasing method by Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Public Corporation after World War II and changed in a flow of deregulation after 1980's greatly. The research theme that is not solved is to analyze a purchasing policy of NTT and a behavior of communication equipment makers in the postwar period.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2006 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2005 Annual Research Report

Research Products

(6 results)

All 2007 2006 2005

All Journal Article Book

  • [Journal Article] 通信機ビジネスと沖牙太郎の企業家活動2007

    • Author(s)
      長谷川信
    • Journal Title

      青山経営論集 42・2(forthcoming)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] The telecommunication apparatus business and the role of Kibataro OKI2007

    • Author(s)
      Shin Hasegawa
    • Journal Title

      AOYAMA Journal of Business vol.42 no.2(forthcoming)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Modern Japanese Economy (Gendai Nippon Keizai)2006

    • Author(s)
      Juroh Hashimoto, Shin Hasegawa, Hideaki Miyazima
    • Journal Title

      Yuhikaku

      Pages: 1-462

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 日本電気の経営権委託に関する一考察2005

    • Author(s)
      長谷川信
    • Journal Title

      青山経営論集 40巻3号

      Pages: 21-38

    • NAID

      110006237848

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 現代日本経済[新版]2006

    • Author(s)
      橋本寿朗, 長谷川信, 宮島英昭
    • Total Pages
      462
    • Publisher
      有斐閣
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2006 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Book] 現代日本経済[新版]2006

    • Author(s)
      橋本寿朗, 宮島英昭, 長谷川信
    • Total Pages
      462
    • Publisher
      有斐閣
    • Related Report
      2006 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2005-03-31   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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