Institutional design including open innovation that balances management issues and green management of small and medium-sized enterprises

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26340124
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Environmental policy and social systems
• Research Institution: Kyoto Sangyo University
• Principal Investigator: ZAIMA Keiko 京都産業大学, 経営学部, 教授 (70349182)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 環境経営 / 中小企業 / オープン・イノベーション / 制度設計 / エージェントベースモデリング

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research analyzed the conditions of promoting green management linked with improvement of management of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). From the viewpoint of open innovation, knowledge support of external organizations was also focused on. In addition to interview surveys of SMEs engaged in advanced green management, a questionnaire survey for manufacturing SMEs was conducted, on green management, management issues and external support usage. Furthermore, based on the empirical research, the effect of external knowledge support was analyzed from simulation analysis by agent-based modeling. From results of this research, conditions and problems useful for future research and institution design were presented.

Free Research Field

環境経済・環境経営・社会シミュレーション