Management Based on Caring: Research on the Significance and Current Situation of Business for Society-type Business

2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K03894
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Management
• Research Institution: Takushoku University
• Principal Investigator: Sendo Ayako 拓殖大学, 商学部, 教授 (60277754)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2024-03-31
• Keywords: CSR / ケアの倫理 / フロー体験 / 社会のためのビジネス（企業） / 協同組合 / 人間中心のマネジメント / アクターネットワーク理論 / コミュニティ・キャピタル

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research showed the need for a change in management style, which has prioritized the creation of profit and increased the burden on stakeholders such as the natural environment, employees, customers, and local communities, and the importance of an ethic of care as the foundation for such change. There are many examples of businesses that solve social issues among Japanese companies, and some of them have a long-term perspective and a unique corporate ethics, in which the company wants to solve social issues together with other players as one player in society, rather than as a "responsibility" in terms of CSR. This research also revealed that there are cases in which economic rationality can be inferred to exist in the model of companies engaging in activities as "Business for Society" (B4S).

Free Research Field

CSR論、企業倫理、社会的起業家精神、経営戦略論、フロー理論、地方創生、ネットワーク理論

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

世界的には、まだまだ企業の短期的な利益創出が重視されている状況において、日本企業の長期的視点に立ったステイクホルダーとの倫理的信念を共有しつつ、寄り添いながら事業を進める事例は、国際学会などでの報告を通じて、日本発の事例研究を発表することができたことは学術的意義があったと考える。
また、地方の疲弊など日本社会における深刻な課題解決に挑む人々の社会的起業家精神に富んだ活動の事例をネットワーク理論の視点から考察する試みは、今後の地方創生の実践に活かされる知見といえるのではないかと考える。