2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Empirical Research on Dynamic Capability: Analyzing Organizational Mechanism in firms and laboratories
| Project/Area Number |
23330121
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Business administration
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| Research Institution | The University of Tokyo |
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Principal Investigator |
BABA Yasunori 東京大学, 先端科学技術研究センター, 教授 (80238229)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
OKAMURA Kouichirou 関西学院大学, 商学部, 准教授 (80580349)
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
SHICHIJOU Naohiro 文部科学省科学技術政策研究所, 科学技術動向センター, 上席研究官 (30323489)
SHIBAYAMA Soutarou 東京大学, 大学院・工学系研究科技術経営戦略学専攻, 特任准教授 (30609285)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2011-04-01 – 2014-03-31
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| Keywords | 経営革新 / 組織能力 / ダイナミック・ケイパビリティ / ルーティン / 企業家精神 / 研究室 / 不確実性 / タスク分担 |
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| Research Abstract |
The research illustrates how factory in process industry can innovate its production control system. It explains the process how the middle management provided the shop floor with a new management goal to eliminate bottlenecks in production process; organizational learning having crossed the traditional organizational boundary enabled the shop floor to change routines, having resulted in the firm's improvements in both productivity increase and shortening lead-time.
Second, it aims to examine the adaptation of organizational design in the context of the academic sector drawing on a survey of biology laboratories in Japanese universities. It examines how the variation in task allocation affects scientific productivity. Results suggest that flexible organizational design with limited division of labor suits basic research, where exploratory approach is common with high unpredictability, while rigid design is fitter for applied research, which is relatively exploitative and predictable.
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