2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A study on the role of the nonprofit and cooperative sector in the market economy
| Project/Area Number |
20530207
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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 |
Applied economics
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| Research Institution | University of Hyogo |
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Principal Investigator |
MIKAMI Kazuhiko University of Hyogo, 経済学部, 教授 (30229653)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
MIZUNO Keizo 関西学院大学, 商学部, 教授 (40229703)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 経済システム論 |
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| Research Abstract |
Nonprofit and cooperative firms have often been discussed from historical and conceptual viewpoints so far. In this research project, I attempted to study these types of firms from an analytical standpoint based on economics as a social science.
The results obtained in this research project can be summarized as follows. First, I compared several organizational forms of firms in standard microeconomic theory. Second, in this analytical framework, I showed that the sunk costs of physical capital play an important role in the determination of the organizational form of firms. Third, I constructed a model of an alternative economic system based on consumer cooperatives and the market for their membership.
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