1991 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A History of British Business System
| Project/Area Number |
01530074
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
商学・経営学
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| Research Institution | Meiji daigaku-Tankidaigaku, Womens' Coleege, Meiji University |
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Principal Investigator |
OKAYAMA Reiko Womens' College, Meiji University, Professor, 短期大学, 教授 (90201392)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
IWAUCHI Ryoichi Meiji Univ. Business Administration, Professor., 経営学部, 教授 (20104599)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1989 – 1991
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| Keywords | British business history. / Business strategy / Managerial hierarchy / Internal labor market / Education system / Capitalization / Business finance |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this project is to clarify peculiar characteristics of British businesses in terms of business strategies and of human resources management from the turn of this century to the 1970s.
Through the period that this research grant was given, OKAYAMA, the head investigator, and IWAUCHI, the collaborative investigator, worked up materials into a comprehensive list of references. At the same time, OKAYAMA concentrated on research into the development of mergers and aquisitions, managerial structures and organizations, and human resources management. Whereas IWAUCHI concentrated on industrial training and educational systems. OKAYAMA has published an article concerning the development of labor management in British industry and also has given a paper entitled Shop-floor management in British automobile industry.
Although there have been still left some questions to be explored, in particular, in the field of capitalizations in industry, we have come to a conclusion that since the second industrial revolution British industrialists were very much behind their counterparts in other industrialized countries in managerial organization developments, which resulted in poor managerial hierarchies in the firm. This organizational incapability of the British firm was much to do with its defensive strategies of marketing. We note that the business strategies and structures that British firms had developed since the early twentieth century have been crucial facotrs responsible for. a decline in the economy in the postsecond-world war period.
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