| Budget Amount *help |
¥13,780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥10,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,180,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥2,470,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥570,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥3,640,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥840,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥3,770,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥870,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
We have investigated so called Kyoto Kigyo to find their uniqueness and strength. Yasuda investigated social networks of top managers of Kyoto based firms. She is making case study of the strength of an old bar as a hub of Kyoto top-class managers and presidents' network. Her findings succest their social networking behavior can be called strategic closure and unintended brokarage. Ikuine focused on game industry and Nintendo. Azuma's research is mainly on motor cycle industry and refined theories of Monozukuri in motor cycle business based on hearing and interviews.
Yasuda also focused on developing Japanese manuals of network analysis tool, Muxviz and Pajek. MuxViz is a new strong social visualization tool, which has been developed in Spain and not widely known in Japan. Yasuda Lab has several stable machine to use MuxViz with Windows and Mac.
Yasuda has also translated Social Networks and healh written by Thomas Valente into Japanese, with Dr, Mori Toru. The book is now in press,
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