2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Extracting new variables and empirical study in the comparative research of industrial agglomeration.

Research Project

Project/Area Number	22530437
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Business administration
Research Institution	Ryukoku University
Principal Investigator	AKIBA Futoshi 龍谷大学, 経営学部, 准教授 (00340282)
Project Period (FY)	2010-04-01 – 2014-03-31
Keywords	産業集積 / 地域企業 / テキストマイニング / 定量研究 / 内容分析
Research Abstract	The purpose of this study is to investigate mechanisms and institutions of Japanese glasses industry and glasses-frame industrial agglomeration that has maintained competitive advantage, despite labor-intensive industry. The data used in this research was as follows. One was the text data that was collected by interview, and consists of 1,500,000 characters. Another was the text data that was extracted from trade magazines of 40 years, and consists of 1,800,000 characters. From the result of this analysis, we concluded that the prime cause of low business performance of Japanese glasses-frame industrial agglomeration was not low-cost imported goods, but institutional environment which prevented companies of glasses industry from adapting to environmental change.