How is a Japanese Multi-National Enterprise Coping with the Global Competition?

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24402027
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 海外学術
• Research Field: Business administration
• Research Institution: Doshisha University
• Principal Investigator: ISHIDA Mitsuo 同志社大学, 社会学部, 教授 (40121587)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 上田 眞士 同志社大学, 社会学部, 教授 (10352121) ; 竇 少杰 立命館大学, 経営学部, 助教 (30600556) ; 齋藤 毅 福井県立大学, 地域経済研究所, 講師 (80725094) ; 樋口 純平 同志社大学, 社会学部, 准教授 (40434683)
• Research Collaborator: NISHIMURA Itaru
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 経営学 / グローバル経営 / 組織業績管理 / 人的資源管理 / 労使関係

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research is a detailed case study into Panasonic co. paying a specific attention to the recurrent reforms in both organizational and operational fields in these years, which have been obliged to undertake to adapt to the ever increasing global competition.
The research outcomes are two. Firstly, it has clarified the core unit of analysis which enables the consistent description of a series of management’s adaptive actions taken to tackle with the global competition. Secondly, it has fairly succeeded in describing managerial practices as a whole, covering the whole managerial functions including products development, purchasing, manufacturing, and marketing in the global-wide arena. In summary the research explored the key concept for describing globalization of firms.

Free Research Field

経営学