2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
New Organization Design for Innovation
Project/Area Number |
19K13782
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
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Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
Review Section |
Basic Section 07080:Business administration-related
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Research Institution | Keio University (2021-2022) Meiji Gakuin University (2019-2020) |
Principal Investigator |
Iwao Shumpei 慶應義塾大学, 商学部(三田), 准教授 (50823895)
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Project Period (FY) |
2019-04-01 – 2023-03-31
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Keywords | イノベーション / 組織形態 / 人工社会実験 / 知識創造 / 資源とアイデアの滞留 |
Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this study, we found that the shape of an organization affects the ease with which its members can connect with each other. I expressed this "ease of connection among organizational members" as "organizational breadth. It was then found that the shape of the organization affects the breadth of the organization, and that the breadth of the organization affects the occurrence of innovation. Specifically, it was found that when ideas and resources stagnate in separate locations within an organization, innovation is less likely to occur. In other words, even if an organization has an abundance of ideas and resources, respectively, it may not necessarily be able to innovate. The research derived from this finding has been widely published in international and national journals, commercial journals, and books.
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Free Research Field |
経営学
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Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
これまで、イノベーションの阻害要因を、アイデアの欠如に求めたり、資源不足に求めたりする言説が流行していた。しかし、本研究によって、こうした言説が大きな間違いを抱えている可能性が分かった。すなわち、実際には、アイデアも資源も十分すぎるほど存在しており、それら2つが出会わないことこそが問題となる場合が発見されたのである。このことは、近年、イノベーションの必要性が叫ばれる中で、企業のイノベーション・マネジメントだけでなく政府のイノベーション政策に対しても再考を求めるという意味で社会的意義があるといえる。また、学術的にもこうした発見は、これまでなされてきていなかった。
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