Research on organizational structure of public utilities and determinants of efficiency from transaction-cost perspective

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K17049
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Economic policy
• Research Institution: Kobe University
• Principal Investigator: Nakamura Eri 神戸大学, 経営学研究科, 准教授 (00611071)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): MIZUTANI Fumitoshi 神戸大学, 経営学研究科, 教授 (60263365) ; SHOJI Kenichi 神戸大学, 経営学研究科, 教授 (70127372) ; SAKAI Hiroki 神戸大学, 海事科学研究科, 准教授 (20612336)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 公益事業 / ガバナンス / 取引費用 / 組織の経済学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This project revealed the relationship between transaction costs in a corporate group and governance on group firms. Transaction costs are the costs required for a certain transaction including monitoring and searching costs. The analysis on railway groups revealed that of managers' temporary transfer to group firms contributes to a reduction on transaction costs and that this effect of managers' temporary transfer could be substituted for human resource development scheme or organizational structure. The analysis on information and communication industry revealed that group size involved in a transaction and the duration and the frequency of transaction are the important factors in measuring transaction costs between group firms.

Free Research Field

組織の経済学