著者

小門 裕幸

出版者

法政大学キャリアデザイン学部

雑誌

法政大学キャリアデザイン学部紀要 = 法政大学キャリアデザイン学部紀要 (ISSN:13493043)

巻号頁・発行日

no.15, pp.25-71, 2018-03

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This paper presents a new type of capitalist society; Habitat Capitalism.The discovery of this new system is based on my observations and participatory experiences in the Silicon Valley region as a person with a Japanese cultural background, and on a review of several previous studies on this region such as "Silicon Valley Edge", "Lessons", "Grassroots Leaders for a New Economy", "Civic Revolutionaries" and etc... Using complexity theory, I begin by examining the cultural and religious origins of the United States to analyze the culture of the people of Silicon Valley today. Silicon Valley society has seemingly become unique in the world as well as among regions in the United States. They have established a system of private sector-oriented sustainable governance. The region is socially innovative as well as industrially and technologically innovative. And it is ecologically sound. This new type of capitalist society is characterized by several factors. For example, (i) openness of society, (ii) activeness and connectedness of independent people, (iii) infinitely large number of information exchanges through conversations in the shape of more altruistic information exchange (human side of relationship) and less self-interested information exchange 70 (rational side of relationship), (iv) a spark or a flash created by contact between two sides of an exchange, turning out to be a viable business idea, (v) a vigorous project-creating-ecosystem to pursue the idea (a business type and a social mission-oriented type), (vi) public values that lead them to pursue the common good as a basic source of energy, and (vii) rules of the game that are based on a common law-based legal system, equity-attentive culture, and a strong individual culture that are quite different from Japanese culture and traditions. They can find and choose the best place for the realization of their respective missions in life because of the easy availability and variety of mission-oriented companies and community-based organizations, and because of the ease of people's mobility. Workers can have many career paths, including boundaryless career, intelligent career, revolving-door career, giving-back career and Krumboltz's five attributes, all of which come from their subjective career mind-set.