| Budget Amount *help |
¥17,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥13,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥4,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥5,980,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,380,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥7,020,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,620,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In developing countries, an urgent policy agenda is to mitigate the severe shortage of management knowledge in order to enhance industrial development. For this purpose, this study collected and analyized the panel data of firms in Ethiopia, where the government is leading the movement toward the diffusion of Kaizen, Japanese management practices. It has turned out that Kaizen diffusion has begun from large firms that keenly sense the need to improve product quality and productivity. Among other major findings are that there are opportunities of knowledge spillovers among firms, that firms adopting Kaizen in an Ethiopian way tend to succeed in making the knowledge adoption contribute to business performance, and that unlike the diffusion of piecemeal engineering technology, the diffusion of management knowledge can be assisted by media campaign effectively.
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