2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Competitive Dynamics of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
| Project/Area Number |
21830051
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Business administration
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
COLPAN M.Asli Kyoto University, 経営管理研究部, 准教授 (70511286)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2010
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| Keywords | ビジネス・グループ / 開発途上市場 / 経済発展 / 企業パフォーマンス / 多角化戦 |
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| Research Abstract |
Business groups have played a significant role in enhancing the competitiveness of large enterprises in emerging economies and thus made a critical contribution to their process of long-term economic growth. While large enterprises in mature industrial economies adopted related product portfolio and multidivisional structure, business groups relied on unrelated diversification and the holding company-independent subsidiary structure. In contrast to the conventional perspective to business groups that emphasized environmental factors to comprehend their prominence in those economies, the present research project has identified the intra-firm factor of accumulated competitive resources and dynamic capabilities to elevate business groups to compete in international markets. Those resources and capabilities are different from the product-specific ones that have been identified in mature industrial economies. They rather are product-transcending and related to such functions as finance, human resources, marketing, and management.
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