2001 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Research on Unintended Consequences in Management Studies
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12630126
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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 |
Business administration
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| Research Institution | Hitotsubashi University |
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Principal Investigator |
NUMAGAMI Tsuyosli Hitotsubasbi University, Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Professor, 大学院・商学研究科, 教授 (80208280)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2001
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| Keywords | Management Studies / Unintended Consequence / History of Management Thoughts / Methodology / Thought cast |
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| Research Abstract |
It is not an exaggeration to say that research on unintended consequences has been main target for social sciences since its inception as discipline. But, the area of management studies has been an exception to this authentic style of other social sciences.
First, through examining the history of management studies, this research project has made it clear that both in America and Japan, there has been few research that contributed to understanding of unintended consequences, almost all of their research aimed at establishing management theory as a science. However, at the same time, there emerges a new mind-set that emphasizes the importance and possibilities of research on unintended consequences in the area of management studies.
Secondly, after examining the historical progress of management studies, the research project advanced to clarify how to make out unintended consequences when doing research. The project finally reached three types of thought process : naive action description, variable system description, and action system description. Dialectic interaction between the last two thought processes, which is between variable system perspective and action system perspective, is one of the promising paths to get to uncovering unintended consequences.
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