A Comparative study on business ecosystems in Japanese and Korean ICT companies.

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23730398
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Business administration
• Research Institution: Prefectural University of Hiroshima (2013-2014); Ube National College of Technology (2011-2012)
• Principal Investigator: PARK Yousin 県立広島大学, 経営情報学部, 准教授 (20435457)
• Project Period (FY): 2011-04-28 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ビジネス・エコシステム / 情報家電企業 / 社会ネットワーク分析 / ソニー社 / パナソニック社

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This research examines the capital and transaction networks of the change in inter-organizational relationships of Japanese ICT companies. I visualize and examine the group structures of Panasonic and Sony by social network analysis.
The findings of this research are as follows. Panasonic and Sony have implemented restructuring of the business groups like that of U.S. companies at 1990s. As a result, the relative importance of Panasonic and Sony in capital network is increased while the importance of affiliated companies is decreased. And the relative importance of Panasonic and Sony in transaction network is increased while the importance of affiliated firms is decreased. In the short and middle- term perspectives, the reforms of Panasonic and Sony which improved the efficiency of management led to these firm’s business recovery. However Panasonic and Sony couldn’t rebuild the competitiveness through the development of new products in the long-term perspectives.

Free Research Field

経営戦略論