著者

Nakano Koji Ohara Toru

出版者

特定非営利活動法人 グローバルビジネスリサーチセンター

雑誌

Annals of Business Administrative Science (ISSN:13474464)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.18, no.2, pp.75-84, 2019

被引用文献数

2

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<p>Japan has since ancient times had a custom called <i>omiai</i> (loosely translated as "matchmaking" when searching for a marriage partner). The examples of the matching of large firms and start-ups at the Innovation Leaders Summit in Japan discussed in this paper can truly be called "omiai." Unlike Western-style matching, in this summit, participating firms and managers alike have little experience with alliances, and matchmakers have no strong commitment, as noted by Holzmann, Sailer, and Katzy (2014). Instead, just as with omiai, matchmakers exchange profiles of large firms and start-ups new to alliances and simply create a place for them to meet and make matches.</p>