Total analysis to the personnel affairs of Mitsui & Co., before the World War Second.

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25285107
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic history
• Research Institution: Meiji University
• Principal Investigator: wakabayashi yukio 明治大学, 商学部, 教授 (60328961)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): Kiyama Minoru 関西学院大学, 商学部, 教授 (30340897) ; Akiya Norio 明治大学, 政経学部, 教授 (00202549)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): Ichihara Hiroshi 独協大学, 経済学部, 教授 (30168322) ; Sugayama Shinji 東北学院大学, 経済学部, 教授 (00202127) ; Ohshima Hisayuki 高千穂大学, 経済学部, 教授 (40327995) ; Kikkawa Yo 三井文庫, 研究員 (20201460) ; Fujimura Satoshi 神戸大学, 経済経営研究所, 准教授 (00346248) ; Yamafuji Ryutarou 横浜市立大学, 国際マネジメント学部, 准教授 (00432055) ; Uehara Katsuhito 天理大学, 人間学部, 講師 (60509157) ; Yagashiro Hideyoshi 専修大学, 経済学部, 准教授 (30508388)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 総合商社の人材 / 昇進と異動の相関 / キャリアパスとジョブラダー / ホワイトカラー史 / 学歴格差 / 高等教育と企業の結び付き / 商業学校卒業生の活躍 / 三井物産

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We inspected dispersion of staff’s salary and promotion which occurred by their　educational background in several organizations in Japan at the time of the pre World War Second. This study largely depends on our newly discovery of personnel data of Mitsui & Co. and Hitachi Co. Thorough this study we found the differential of employees by their educational background was smaller than expected in the period of before World War Second. Furthermore the historical sources we found in National Archives of Australia are very valuable and important. Now we are under the plan of publish two titles, A history of the differentials by the difference of educational background and Development of Japanese trading companies in Australia before the World War Second.

Free Research Field

経営史