Management studies to explore the ways to reconcile energy supply, environmental protection and economic growth

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26285081
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Management
• Research Institution: Hitotsubashi University
• Principal Investigator: AOSHIMA YAICHI 一橋大学, 大学院商学研究科, 教授 (70282928)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 米倉 誠一郎 一橋大学, 大学院商学研究科, 教授 (00158528) ; MALEN Joel・B 一橋大学, 商学研究科, 講師 (50722609)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): MALEN Joel B. 一橋大学, 大学院商学研究科, 講師 (50722609)
• Research Collaborator: ZHU Jinwei ; ASANO KENJI ; WANG WEN ; KUBOTA HIROMI ; MATSUSHIMA KAZUNARI
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 企業競争力 / 環境問題 / エネルギー問題 / 経営学の視点

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Mainly for the PV and the geothermal industries, I explored ways to achieve stable energy supply and GHG reduction as well as economic growth with explicit consideration on the firm competitiveness. I found that the rapid expansion of Chinese PV firms was driven by sharing of technology and management know-how across firm boundaries, which enabled efficient exploitation of scarce resources within the industry cluster and also induced homogeneous competition. Japanese Feed-in tariff enforced in such a situation not only increased national burden, but also caused economic problems in many Japanese PV companies contrary to policy objectives. As for the geothermal energy, small-scale power plants with high expectation can produce self-sustaining profits only in the very limited cases. Although development of large-scale geothermal power plant is indispensable to make meaningful contributions to the energy mix, there are many problems to be overcome such as a high cost factor.

Free Research Field

経営学