2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
The Business Historical Research on Competition and Compatible Existence of large and smaller Enterprises in Japanese Paper-Pulp Industry after the World War II Period
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12630077
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Economic history
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| Research Institution | Hirosaki University |
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Principal Investigator |
SINOMIYA Toshiyuki Hirosaki Univ., Faculty of Humanities, Professor, 人文学部, 教授 (80113801)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2002
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| Keywords | Big and medium-small enterprises / Competition and parallel continuation / The fittest economy of scale and scope / Industrial accumulation / Paper and pulp industry |
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| Research Abstract |
Japanese paper and pulp industry is now on the world's leading level as to efficiency of operational technology, diversity of raw material trees, recycling of waste paper, quality and fell of paper, scale and scope of markets. A few of big enterprises as Oji Paper Co. and Japan Unipack Group have composed oligopolistic competitive structure in the industry. On the other hand, there are still many medium and small enterprises, including paper processing industries. And the latter have kept up peculiar competitive power against the former.
As in generally known, the big enterprises has established their superiority through the economy of scale and scope. But their economy was not a definite competitive factor in every respects. Medium and small enterprises also have been able to continue business through their fittest economy in not a few field of the industry, such as the tissue paper manufacturing. So the big and medium-small enterprises have been competed with each other and continued just like a tessellated.
In this case, one of the important conditions for medium-small enterprises is a regional accumulation of paper and pulp allied industries in special manufacturing centers like Fuji City in Shizuoka Prefecture. As a result, though Japanese paper and pulp industry assumes oligopolistic aspect, it has been containing historically and constitutionally hot and complicated competition.
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