2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Support System for Beginning Businesses in Hanshin Region
| Project/Area Number |
12791005
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for University and Society Collaboration
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Business administration
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| Research Institution | Kobe University |
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Principal Investigator |
TANI Takeyuki Kobe University, Graduate School of Business, Professor, 大学院・経営学研究科, 教授 (00030718)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
KOU Lin Kobe University, Graduate School of Business, Professor, 大学院・経営学研究科, 教授 (40225363)
OKABE Takayoshi Kobe University, Graduate School of Business, Professor, 大学院・経営学研究科, 教授 (60067676)
SAKASHITA Akonobu Kobe University, Graduate School of Business, Professor, 大学院・経営学研究科, 教授 (10093684)
HARADA Tsutomu Kobe University, Graduate School of Business, Professor, 大学院・経営学研究科, 助教授 (20294192)
TAKASHIMA Katsuyoshi Kobe University, Graduate School of Business, Professor, 大学院・経営学研究科, 教授 (30197090)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2000 – 2002
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| Keywords | process of beginning businesses / support system for beginning businesses / collaboration with Chinese companies / technological learning capability / collection of cases for supporting beginning businesses / movies contents for supporting beginning businesses |
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| Research Abstract |
The objectives of the research are firstly to investigate the process of beginning businesses and the social system (the support system) that support the beginning of businesses and secondly to build and run the support system for beginning businesses that is fitted to the Hanshin region. The research has been carried out in collaboration with the Kansai Productivity Center that is successful in educating and supporting entrepreneurs.
In the first fiscal year survey research was conducted. Questionnaire was prepared based on literature review and field study and mailed to the 4459 listed companies with 498 respondents. It was found that the positive organizational culture was created and the HP was highly used in the small companies with high growth rate. Therefore, it can be said that the creation of the positive organizational culture and the effective HP is important in the process of beginning businesses.
In the second fiscal year we held the workshop to discuss with Chinese researchers and specialists of distribution system with change of Chinese market after joining the WTO. We also conducted the survey research, where questionnaire were sent to small companies in Higashiosaka to analyze the impacts of technological performance caused by intensive communication with external organization.
In the third fiscal year, we analyzed the results of survey research to know that the technological learning capability is highly affected by the tehnological performance from older technology.
In addition to the above mentioned investigations, we prepared 42 cases and 35 movie contents to support beginning businesses.
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