著者

青柳 寛

出版者

日本大学

雑誌

産業経営研究 (ISSN:02874539)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.18, pp.43-58, 1996-03

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As part of a research In industrial management, this paper discusses the role played by character business in the sociocultural construction of "Asian-Pacificism"--an idea which currently happens to be the theme of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Conference (APEC). More specifically, this study will explicate the meaning of Asian community and its public organization through the analysis of the currently prominent genre of audiovisual performance engaging young popular talents known as "idols." Asian idols and their industries contribute to the realization of an Asian community by virtue of their ability to saturate, the public with symbolic identity. This peculiar method of leadership exhibits a fashion quite different from the types of control practiced by politicians and bureaucrats. By emphasizing the realm of symbolism in industrial organization, this paper also attempts to point to the role cultural hermeneutics plays in business research methods.

著者

川勝 恒郎

出版者

日本大学

雑誌

産業経営研究 (ISSN:02874539)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.12, pp.103-119, 1992-04

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The management of risks a corporation is faced with is not the ultimate objective of corporations in pursuit of economic profits, but rather is a requirement to be met in increasing the effectiveness and operating efficiency of business activities. In this paper, I define risk management as follows on the basis of what I have found through years of practical research. It is a deliberate act done strategically by a business organization of its own accord to adapt to possible danger resulting from the acts of individuals or institution. According to this definition, I identify typical aspects of risk management as 1) legal risk management, 2) social risk management, 3) economic risk management, 4) information risk management and 5) human risk management, and clarify the characteristics of each. Why does risk arise in the decision-making process? How is risk that occur in the executing stage managed? Proposing and studying a practicable alternative would be beneficial to not only practitioners but also to academics as well. In order to deal with a variety of risks, corporations will have to develop a multifaceted process of risk management. At the core of this process will be the management of legal risks, which are essentially impossible to take. Risk management accelerates a fundamental review of the elements of business management (people, goods and money). Therefore Japanese corporations, which have consistently abided by the principles of managerial initiative (us-them approach) and employee initiative (I and we approach), may be forced to undergo a structural reform.

著者

岡田 和喜

出版者

日本大学

雑誌

産業経営研究 (ISSN:02874539)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.26, pp.13-47, 2004-03-31

著者

佐々木 恒男

出版者

日本大学

雑誌

産業経営研究 (ISSN:02874539)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.23, pp.1-9, 2001-03

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バブルがはじけて10年,日本経済は未だに立ち直れないでいる.不良債権の償却は一向に進まず,企業倒産は相変わらず多く,失業率も高止まりでのままで,個人消費は冷え込んだままである.中高年の再就職はいうに及ばず,大高中の新卒の就職はいずれも振るわず,国民の間には将来に対する一種の諦めと無力感がみなぎっている.それにもかかわらず,政治は能転気なもので,コップのなかの権力闘争に明け暮れている.株式相場と為替相場だけは正直なもので,日本の政治と経済にすっかり愛想づかしをして,それらは続落の一途を辿っている.この先,日本経済は一体どうなるのだろうか.このような状況のなかで,声高に主張され続けてきたのが市場主義という新しいビジネス・ルールである.人為的な規制を撤廃して,すべてを市場の選択に委ねるというアメリカ流のビジネス・ルールがまるで魔法の杖であるかのように喧伝され,長引く不況に困り果てた日本の経営者がなりふり構わずこれに飛び付いている.市場主義というアメリカン・スタンダードがグローバル・スタンダードと勘違いした日本の経営者は,先人が営々として築きあげてきた信頼取引という日本のビジネス・ルールをいとも簡単に投げ捨てている.それは単にビジネス・ルールの変更だけに終わらず,日本社会全体の価値や文化の変容をも意味している.景気はいずれ変動する.好機が来ればいずれ反転し,破局があればいつか再生する.その時,不慣れな市場主義原理に振り回されてリスクを乗り切った積もりの日本の経営者は,会社不信,会社嫌い,人間不信に凝り固まり,未来に希望が持てず束の間の享楽に生きる大勢の老若男女のリベンジに仰天し,信頼という企業資産の喪失の重大さに愕然とするだろう.

著者

宮田 矢八郎

出版者

日本大学

雑誌

産業経営研究 (ISSN:02874539)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.18, pp.21-30, 1996-03

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The strong yen is willy-nilly forcing Japan's economy into a paradigm shift. With the large and mainstay enterprises leading the way, the nation's business community is steadily relocating its investment activities overseas--and this shift is simultaneously foreshadowing the disintegration of a unique business arrangement, which has for long subsisted on a system centered on a tight network of industrial-banking groupings (keiretsu) and a labyrinthine pyramid of subcontractors. As a result, medium and small Japanese enterprises estranged from the embrace of the conventional "keiretsu" now have no recourse but to opt for a business plan by which they can restructure themselves into self-standing "independent-type" companies. In other words, the strategy will perforce need to be one in which management's efforts focus on placing on the market products carrying its own unique "brand name"--whether it be a final product or a component. By examining the precedent-setting example set by "a high-share enterprise" (i.e., a company that holds a high market share), this paper hopes to contribute to the developing of a pathway that will help Japan's medium and small enterprises overcome the challenges they now confront and create for themselves a new 21st-century-style management strategy.

著者

市川 衛門

出版者

日本大学

雑誌

産業経営研究 (ISSN:02874539)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.19, pp.51-59, 1997-03

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The reform of China's state-owned companies: Of the 100 large and medium sized enterprises decided on as models for reform in 1994, 95 companies had their reform implementation plans approved during 1996. Of these, approximately 80% were entirely government owned stock companies, and fewer than 20% were joint stock companies. Loss-making state enterprises are numerous, and they are subsidized by profitable firms. Profits are few, and 20 million, or one out of three workers, are superfluous. The figure for these surplus workers' salary is roughly equivalent to state farms' total profits. Due to the inadequacy of the social security system, the separation of housing, schools, hospitals and such from companies is not progressing, leaving state firms not very solvent and dependent on bank loans, and it will take several years to clear these debts. Ultimately, it is banks that must shoulder the burden of bankrupt firms. It has been decided that Rural Agricultural Cooperatives should be converted to regional banks (funded by farmers and rural people), but with the modernization of agriculture and agricultural processing, the concentration of labor in agricultural industry, and the rapid growth of transportation and construction firms, there is much interest in whether the financial system can adapt and move forward effectively or not.