Comparative Analysis of Business Groups in the Global Economy

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530459
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Business administration
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: COLPAN Asli 京都大学, 白眉センター, 准教授 (70511286)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ビジネス・グループ / 大企業 / 経済発展 / 経営組織 / 国際研究者交流

Outline of Final Research Achievements

By encompassing developed as well as emerging economies this research revealed the historical and cross-national patterns of the strategy and structure of business groups in different economic environments.
The conventional institutional arguments regard the business group form as a second-best economic organization that may survive thanks to diverse and specific market and institutional contexts in different nations over time. While this may be true in certain cases for some business groups, my study further argues that business groups do actively or even proactively respond to the institutional as well as market forces that should yield lower-than competitive level of market returns. This implies that environmental differences in markets and institutions may not automatically mean a “one-fits-all” business model, but one needs to systematically look at the resources, strategies and structures adopted by individual groups to understand the effectiveness of the group organization

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経営学