著者
中本 龍市
出版者
日本経営学会
雑誌
日本経営学会誌 (ISSN:18820271)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.32, pp.94-104, 2013-11-20 (Released:2017-08-01)

This research examines the relationship between research mobilization and performance of basic research. We focus on the impact of resource mobilization through "a colleague of a colleague" on a focal researcher's performance. Reflecting experiences in daily life, people can understand that a person who can cooperate with "a friend of a friend" gain more benefits than a person who have a friend's cooperation. Innovation cannot be realized only by technology or ideas alone. Rather, innovation needs two different factors : "knowledge creation" and "resource mobilization" (Takeishi et al., 2008; 2012). Previous research has extensively discussed "knowledge creation" but few scholars treat "resource mobilization". Thus, this paper analyses the scope of resource mobilization. As Burt (2010) contributes to this research field and makes a network variable to measure "second-hand" network resources, we develop his research framework. Our working hypothesis is that researchers who can gain access to second-hand network resources, or "a colleague of a colleague", achieve more than researchers who cannot. We use patent data from Japan to examine our hypothesis. Our data contains 310 researchers from two second-tier pharmaceutical companies : Shionogi and Chugai. Results show that the effect of "a colleague of a colleague" has complex impacts on researchers' performance. From a structural viewpoint, the impact of a colleague is negative but that of "a colleague of a colleague" is positive, on the other hand, from a relational viewpoint, it leads to the opposite results. Project leaders in pharmaceutical companies face difficulties to integrate differentiated research teams in order to produce new drugs. In fact, several companies have restructured the internal research process. Our results suggest that they have to achieve a balance between first-hand and second-hand network effects and not to depend on one side only.
著者
フェルナルド・F スアレス マイケル・A クスマノ 長内 厚 中本 龍市
出版者
特定非営利活動法人 組織学会
雑誌
組織科学 (ISSN:02869713)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.42, no.4, pp.4-20, 2009-06-20 (Released:2022-08-20)
参考文献数
41

本稿は,企業が自社の製品技術を支配的なプラットフォーム(PF)へと成長させようとする場合に,サービスがどのような効果を持つのかを議論するものである.サービスは,製品技術と産業の状態に応じて,5つの特別なメカニズムを持っている.サービスは,⑴市場初期に,顧客がPFを採用する際の,不確実性,複雑性を低減する,⑵顧客からのフィードバックを可能にすることでPFを改善する手がかりになる,⑶補完製品,時には競合するPFとさえ連携を可能にし,PFの価値を上げる,⑷PFを採用する顧客への補助として機能する,⑸成熟期においては,製品自体に代わって売上・利益の源泉となり,競争力を維持する手助けになる,という5つの効果がある.
著者
中本 龍市 中園 宏幸 舟津 昌平 原 泰史
出版者
九州大学
雑誌
基盤研究(C)
巻号頁・発行日
2022-04-01

本研究の目的は、専門サービス組織の組織成長の要因と過程を明らかにすることである。すでに触れたように、組織の成長は時間的変化を持つ多面的な現象であるため、この答えを導くには、定量および定性研究を併用する必要がある。Penroseの理論を援用すれば、組織成長の要因と過程を明らかにするためには、インタビューなどの質的研究を通して当事者の機会の認識や経営資源の使い方の意思決定を分析する必要がある。この点について、本研究では、営利企業ではなく、専門サービス組織を対象とするため、既存研究の境界条件が明らかにできる。
著者
中本 龍市 野口 寛樹 高井 計吾
出版者
The Academic Association for Organizational Science
雑誌
組織学会大会論文集 (ISSN:21868530)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.7, no.2, pp.477-482, 2018 (Released:2018-12-27)
参考文献数
6

The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of clients on knowledge and organizational performance. The research question is how breadth and depth of client relationships affect breadth and depth of organizational knowledge and organizational performance. We collected data of the top 100 patent-law firms in Japan for 5 years to construct panel data and employed fixed effect panel regression. The results of empirical analysis show the following three points. First, breadth and depth of client relationships increases breadth of organizational knowledge. Second, depth of client relationships enhances depth of organizational knowledge, meanwhile breadth of client relationships does not. Third, breadth and depth organizational knowledge increase organizational performance, but client relationships have no effects. In sum, client relationships do not directly contribute to organizational performance but they affect organizational performance through accumulated organizational knowledge.
著者
中本 龍市 高井 計吾 野口 寛樹
出版者
特定非営利活動法人 組織学会
雑誌
組織学会大会論文集 (ISSN:21868530)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.5, no.1, pp.136-141, 2016-08-31 (Released:2016-08-24)
参考文献数
7

This paper examines tripartite relationship between industry, patent firm and patent attorney. The purpose of this research is to analyze how transaction structure between companies and patent firms affects career switch of patent attorneys. We collect data of transaction between top 50 research oriented companies and top 50 patent firms in Japan and also data of the profiles of 1,960 patent attorneys who belong to the patent firms. Our final dataset covers about 50% of all published patents in 2013. Based on quantitative analysis, we observe three major findings as follows. Firstly, the transactions between companies and patent firms are fixed and long-term. 70.9% of these transaction relationships have not changed for five years. Secondly, 29.6% of the patent attorneys have switched their career in five years. However, only 18.4 % of them have gone into private practice. That means only 4.7% of all patent attorneys have set up their own patent firm. Thirdly, these patent attorneys lost their clients after they have been independent from the top 50 patent firms. In sum, it is relatively difficult for patent attorneys to start new transactions with top 50 companies and to establish their own patent firm. That may suppress their willingness to be independent.