Why do firms repeat the same failures?: Dynamics of organizational learning from failures

• Project/Area Number: 17K13783
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Management
• Research Institution: Sophia University
• Principal Investigator: MIN Jungwon 上智大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (30632872)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2021)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,030,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥930,000); Fiscal Year 2020: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000); Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2017: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
• Keywords: 組織学習 / 事故 / 組織危機 / 失敗からの学習 / 組織事故 / 危機 / 世界原子力発電所 / 経営学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aims to contribute to the literature on organizational learning by providing theory and the empirical evidences for organizational learning from failures. To achieve this goal, this study conducted empirical analysis using data on organizational accidents or errors in two empirical contexts: global airline industries and world nuclear power plants, the representative High Reliability Organizations (HROs). Using the data, four empirical research projects have been carried out.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

911テロ事件や3.11原発事故からも明らかなように，組織事故は，それを起こした企業だけではなく我々の社会に対して極めて大きなインパクトを持つ。本研究では，高信頼性組織のコンテクスト用いて，産業内で発生する事故から組織がどのように学習を行い，どのように将来の事故を予防できるか，に関する提言を行うことができた。したがって，組織事故に対する直接な予防戦略を提示することにより社会に対するインパクトも高いと考える。

Research Products

• [Int'l Joint Research] Hongik University(韓国)
• [Int'l Joint Research] Catolica Porto Business School(Portugal)
• [Int'l Joint Research] CUHK Business School(Hongkong)
• [Journal Article] Does social trust slow down or speed up the transmission of COVID-19? (2020)
  • Author(s): Min, Jungwon
  • Journal Title: PLoS ONE Volume: 15(12) Issue: 12 Pages: e0244273-e0244273
  • DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0244273
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
• [Journal Article] Learning from multiple failures: Evidence from figure skating competitions (2019)
  • Author(s): Min, J. and Mitsuhashi, H.
  • Journal Title: Sophia Economic Review Volume: 64 Pages: 1-16
• [Presentation] Black companies love you, the challenge-seekers: A symbolic disguising of black companies in Japan (2021)
  • Author(s): Jungwon Min
  • Organizer: Academy of Management 2021 Annual Conference
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The scramble for top positions: Gender differences in interim leaders’ performance in dynamic tournaments (2019)
  • Author(s): Min, J. and Mitsuhashi, H.
  • Organizer: 日本行動計量学会第47回大会
• [Presentation] Normalization of human errors in organizations and the roles of early disaster environments (2019)
  • Author(s): Min, J. & Yasuda Naoki
  • Organizer: Asia Academy of Management 2019
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Open versus closed alliance networks as a precaution for organizational disruptions (2018)
  • Author(s): Min, J.
  • Organizer: Academy of Management 2018 Annual Conference
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] The role differentiation problem in reassembled innovation teams (2018)
  • Author(s): Mitsuhashi, H. and Min, J.
  • Organizer: Academy of Management 2018 Annual Conference
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] No Pain, Yet Gain? Learning from Vicarious Crises in an International Context. (2017)
  • Author(s): Min, J.
  • Organizer: Academy of Management 2017 Annual Conference
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] Unhappy endings? Exploring the effect of accidents severity on alliance terminations (2017)
  • Author(s): Corbo, L. and Min, J.
  • Organizer: Academy of Management 2017 Annual Conference
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Book] Protecting Trustworthiness in Strategic Alliances: Open versus Closed Alliance Networks as a Precaution for Organizational Disruptions. In T. K. Das (Ed.), Research Strategic Alliances: Managing Trust in Strategic Alliances (2018)
  • Author(s): Min, J.
  • Total Pages: 334
  • Publisher: Information Age Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781641135313