The bottleneck issues on entrepreneurs' career strategy in Japan

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24530468
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Business administration
• Research Institution: Osaka City University
• Principal Investigator: YAMADA Jin-ichiro 大阪市立大学, 経営学研究科, 准教授 (40325311)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MATSUOKA Kumi 香川大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (30325310)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 企業家 / キャリア戦略 / サイエンス産業 / 文化コンテンツ産業 / ベンチャー / オーナーシップ / 出口（エクジット） / 事業創造

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The model developed here explains the diverse exit strategies of entrepreneurs while these firms have different various stakeholder compositions and its distinctive development paths. I argue that venture survival and their career strategies are not strictly a function of economic performance but also depends on a firm’s own threshold of performance. I apply the EVL model to the study of academic venture survival, in which two thresholds of economic and social index are determined by the key stakeholders’ ownership influence such as the leading academic entrepreneurs. Utilizing four case studies, I find the some supportive evidence for the model. The findings suggest that the reason why entrepreneurs' career strategies may choose to continue or survive despite comparatively low economic performance.

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経営学