2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Programmed Corporate Transformation

Research Project

Project/Area Number	23653097
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Multi-year Fund
Research Field	Business administration
Research Institution	Nagoya City University
Principal Investigator	DEGUCHI Masato 名古屋市立大学, 経済学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (40305553)
Project Period (FY)	2011 – 2013
Keywords	組織経営
Research Abstract	I have reviewed the various studies based on new institutionalism that is core perspective for this project, focused on the origin and main issues. And I confirmed the following points as preparations for empirical research. Though the perspective originally had 2 issues, diffusion of formal organizational structure and decoupling it from practices by organzations, most researchers had concentrated on the former. But as it became clear that organizations often decoupled the adopted from their practices, more and more researchers have been approaching issues associated with decoupling. And nowadays they think that main issue in the perspective is decoupling. More specifically, how organizations should decouple the institutionalized and adopted by themselves but inefficient from practices became an important issue. And then, in each research, researchers had given various meanings to institution, and consequently it has became an umbrella term to be reconsidered and redifined.