Cultural imprinting and sociopolitical engagement of small and medium-sized enterprises
| Project/Area Number |
21K13345
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 07080:Business administration-related
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
Wang Tao 京都大学, 経済学研究科, 准教授 (70899260)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2021)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
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| Keywords | Corporate philanthropy / Place / Institution / Entrepreneurs / Networking / Crisis / Relisience / Emotion / Corporate social action / Corp. political activity / Imprinting / Community / SMEs |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
Small and medium-sized enterprises navigate and operate in a web of different and sometimes contradictory governance modes across corporate, political and social domains. Drawing on organization theory, and non-market strategy literature, this project proposes the concept of cultural imprinting, including a socio-spatial view of community imprinting and a political-ideological view of norm imprinting. Adopting a mixed research design, this project empirically demonstrates how SMEs in China manage the interdependence between self-governance, market-based standards, and multi-stakeholder rules.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This project was set out to examine how firms' social and political actions are shaped and conditioned by localized institutional arrangements. In the past year, a comprehensive literature review was conducted regarding the intricate relationship between place and corporate philanthropy. This paper was published in a special issue of "International Journal of Management Reviews". This review paper laid a solid foundation for further empirical investigations. In addition, an empirical paper focusing on how entrepreneurs navigate institutional transition in managing their networking styles was published in "Entrepreneurship Research Journal". A third paper examining tourists' enactment of the COVID-19 crisis on the cruise ship the Diamond Princess was published in "Tourism Management".
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The research project is progressing well, despite the COVID-19 crisis, which created difficulties in organizing field trips for data collection, and visiting collaborators for exchanges.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
The plan for this project is twofold: first, data collection including interviews and field trips will be organized in the year to come. Second, working papers will be submitted to high quality academic conferences and journals.
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Research Products
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