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The Role of the Senses in Business Strategies: Comparative Studies in Business History

Research Project

Project/Area Number 18K12826
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Review Section Basic Section 07070:Economic history-related
Research InstitutionThe University of Tokyo (2021-2022)
Kyoto University (2018-2020)

Principal Investigator

Hisano Ai  東京大学, 大学院情報学環・学際情報学府, 准教授 (00812687)

Project Period (FY) 2018-04-01 – 2023-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2022)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2021: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Fiscal Year 2020: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000)
Keywords経営史 / 感覚史 / 技術史 / 文化史 / 消費主義研究 / 海外調査 / 国際学会報告 / 研究成果報告 / 国内資料収集 / 研究動向の理解・整理 / 論文投稿 / 学術史の理解 / 分析枠組みの深化 / 国際比較 / 資料収集 / 学会発表 / フィードバック / 研究発表 / 業績報告 / 情報収集 / マーケティング / 感覚 / 産業史
Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research explored how the five senses (sight, taste, hearing, smell, and touch) have been used in corporate manufacturing and marketing strategies from the late nineteenth century in the United States, Japan, and some European countries, and how these strategies have affected the way people understood their sensory experiences. This research revealed how people's sensory experiences have changed in the development of capitalist societies. As one of the case studies, the study focused on the United States from the 1870s to the 1970s to examine how the color of food that many people considered "natural" have been historically constructed. Focusing on the production and marketing strategies in the food industry, government food regulations, technological development, and changing cultural values, the study analyzed sensory experiences are embedded in historical and cultural contexts.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の学術的意義は、経営史研究と感覚史研究の手法を補完的に用いて、消費主義社会拡大における五感の役割や重要性を明らかにした点である。また社会的意義として、人々の五感を含め生活の多くが、企業戦略や政府の規制に大きな影響を受けていることなどを明らかにしたことが挙げられる。例えば食品や化粧品の健康への影響や自動車の安全性は、単に五感に訴える商品を製造・販売するだけでなく、企業の倫理的判断が重要となる。また、食品の色のように、「自然」に見える色を人工的に作り出すことは消費者を「騙す」ことなのか、また、どこまでの人工的操作であれば良いのかといった議論も、企業戦略や消費者への影響を考える上で重要である。

Report

(6 results)
  • 2022 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2021 Research-status Report
  • 2020 Research-status Report
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (16 results)

All 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results,  Peer Reviewed: 1 results) Presentation (11 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 10 results,  Invited: 1 results) Book (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] Engaging with Experience: The Senses as Lenses in Business History2023

    • Author(s)
      Ai Hisano and Sven Kube
    • Journal Title

      Organization and Management History

      Volume: - Issue: 1 Pages: 62-68

    • DOI

      10.1080/17449359.2023.2176885

    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Journal Article] The "Wine Revolution" in the United States, 1960-1980: Narratives and Category Creation2021

    • Author(s)
      Ai Hisano and Nathaniel Chapman
    • Journal Title

      Business History

      Volume: なし Issue: 8 Pages: 1313-1340

    • DOI

      10.1080/00076791.2020.1862794

    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Forging Aesthetic Capitalism: Sensory Alienation and the Emergence of Consumer Culture in the Mid-Twentieth-Century United States2023

    • Author(s)
      Ai Hisano
    • Organizer
      Organization of American Historians
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] "Don’t Streamline Your Mother While I’m Gone": Industrial Aesthetics in the Post-War United States2023

    • Author(s)
      Ai Hisano
    • Organizer
      Business History Conference
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Modern Smile: Affective Labor and Japanese Department Store Restaurants, 1900s-1930s2022

    • Author(s)
      Ai Hisano
    • Organizer
      European Business History Association
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Reshaping an Industry: Industrialization, Globalization, and the Transformation of Food from the Late Nineteenth to the Early Twentieth Century2021

    • Author(s)
      久野愛
    • Organizer
      World Congress of Business History
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] “Use Not Perfumery to Flavor Soup": Aesthetic Judgement in the Science of the Senses2020

    • Author(s)
      久野愛
    • Organizer
      Hagley Conference
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] A Category as Cultural Production: The Transformation of Taste and Labor Struggle in the U.S. Wine Industry2020

    • Author(s)
      Ai Hisano and Nathaniel Chapman
    • Organizer
      American Sociological Association(コロナ禍でキャンセル)
    • Related Report
      2020 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Capitalism and the Senses: Recreating Consumer Experience2019

    • Author(s)
      久野愛
    • Organizer
      Seeking the Unconventional in Forging Histories of Capitalism, Harvard Business School
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research / Invited
  • [Presentation] Capitalism of the Senses: Business, Color, and the Standardization of Food in the United States, 1870s-1930s2019

    • Author(s)
      久野愛
    • Organizer
      European Business History Association
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Creating a Visual Fantasy: Sensory Appeal and the Presentation of Naturalness in Food Photography in the Interwar United States2019

    • Author(s)
      久野愛
    • Organizer
      Hagley Conference, Commercial Pictures and the Arts and Technics of Visual Persuasion
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Capitalism of the Senses: Food Business and the Creation of Modern Visual Culture2019

    • Author(s)
      久野 愛
    • Organizer
      Business History Conference
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] Reimagining the Natural in the American Food Industry2018

    • Author(s)
      久野 愛
    • Organizer
      Society for Social Studies of Science
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] “‘Use Not Perfumery to Flavour Soup’: The Science of the Senses in Aesthetic Capitalism." In Regina Lee Blaszczyk and David Suisman (eds)., Capitalism and the Senses2023

    • Author(s)
      Ai Hisano(分担執筆)
    • Total Pages
      312
    • Publisher
      Johns Hopkins University Press
    • ISBN
      9781512824209
    • Related Report
      2022 Annual Research Report
  • [Book] 視覚化する味覚:食を彩る資本主義2021

    • Author(s)
      久野愛
    • Total Pages
      232
    • Publisher
      岩波書店
    • ISBN
      9784004319023
    • Related Report
      2021 Research-status Report
  • [Book] Visualizing Taste: How Business Changed the Look of What You Eat2019

    • Author(s)
      久野愛
    • Total Pages
      336
    • Publisher
      ハーバード大学出版局
    • ISBN
      9780674983892
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report

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Published: 2018-04-23   Modified: 2024-01-30  

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