Hiroshi Togo; Tadahiko Yoshida; Takehisa Yamada; Fumihiko Ichikawa Proceedings of the 30th EGOS Colloquium, European Group for Organizational Studies 2014/07
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research
Date (from‐to) : 2016/04 -2019/03
Author : YAMADA Takehisa; YAMAGUCHI yukiko
This research focused on the recent years' business system in the traditional industrial area, and considered the process which developed the product for building the new brand on cooperating with the designer, trading companies and manufactures of domestic porcelain industry while the globalization develops on 2000's.
In Arita porcelain industry the network of the entrepreneurs who succeed to the family's business is constructed, and through the change of trading system marketing strategies on targeting to the trend of consuming region markets are performed by them. The entrepreneurs in Arita porcelain industry started 2016/Arita project as the original brand for the global market, and for the revival of the domestic porcelain production area they opened the new phase of traditional industries and participated in the international exhibitions performed in Western countries every year.
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science:Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Date (from‐to) : 2015/04 -2018/03
Author : YOSHIDA Tadahiko
We observed some cases that public policies formed through multi-sector partnership and activities of institutional entrepreneurs. We tried to made a new model of public policy formation that adopt garbage can model from organization theory and structuration theory from sociology.
We researched forming process of the Kyoto City support center for civic activities, traditional industrial area reform in Arita, Saga Prefecture mainly. We built new model of public policy, we call it “ revise structuration theory of policy making”.
This study is the pioneer work that we can macroscopically clarify the whole story of the national development and the local development of the commerce industry in the modern Japan by using the business tax as the objective index. Our breakthrough study provides the academic stock of this field (in brief, those are the many case studies of the personal commerce business) with “the nautical chart” about the national development and the local development of the commerce industry. Our study has the impressive originality and the deep impacts to the traditional commerce study. Therefore, we are convinced that our book (forthcoming) will be not only the epoch-making work, but also just like bible when analyzing the development of the commerce industryin the modern Japan.
1. We have carried out investigations six times on the historical materials kept by the Hiroumi family who had been engaged in domestic shipping and trade in rice and fertilizer at Kaizuka in Osaka Prefecture. We have taken photographs of the main account books and put the business letters into our special envelopes.
2. Having analyzed these historical materials, we found out many interesting facts. Firstly, Kaizuka Port, which prospered as a trading center for rice and fertilizer after the 1830s, began to decline in the 1880s because of the inadequateness for steamships. Secondly, the returns from the trade decreased after the 1890s as the Hiroumi family changed their way of trade from selling on commissions to selling on their own accounts. Thirdly, the Hiroumi family, who began to invest their money in the joint-stock companies in the 1880s, increased their investments during the boom in the 1910s so that the amount of the returns from the investments in the stocks overwhelmed those from the trade in fertilizer. In short, we found out the fact that the merchants grown in the Tokugawa Era not only developed the market economy but also financed the joint-stock companies in modern Japan.