Comparison of the Structure and Competitive Advantage of General Trading Companies; Mitsui & Co. and Mitsubishi Trading Co.

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380421
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Economic history
• Research Institution: Saitama University
• Principal Investigator: SUZUKI Kunio 埼玉大学, 人文社会科学研究科(系), 名誉教授 (50132783)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OISHI Naoki 埼玉大学, 人文社会科学研究科, 准教授 (00451732)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 総合商社 / 三井物産 / 三菱商事 / 貿易

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We compared two general trading companies (Mitsui & Co.and Mitsubishi Trading Co.).The documents which we mainly analyzed are the materiales which Nationa Archives and Research Administration in USA, Mitsui Research Institute for Social and Economic History ,and Mitsubishi Archives possese.
First,by analyzing the documents,we clarified how organization of trading, rule of trading, official authority of the branch manager,and way of promotion and the bonus are different. Second,we clarified how the differences influenced predominance or inferior in the competition.

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