企業スポーツの脱制度化

休廃部に与える経済的および社会的要因の影響の分析

抄録

This paper examines why firms abolish their company sport clubs by using a deinstitutionalization concept and statistical analyses. Although literature has suggested reasons for the abolishment, little research has empirically studied them. Therefore, this paper does research on the mechanism behind the abolishment by looking at the influence of economic and social factors on it and conducting an event history analysis among 95 Japanese companies with a long distance club between 1992 and 2012. The results show that, as an economic factor, the significance of an economic crisis in the company influenced on the abolishment. On the other hand, social factors such as the employee downsizing, the increases in foreign shareholders and the normative pressure from the other firms had an effect, though interaction terms between economic and social factors did not. Based on these findings, the contributions of this paper will be discussed.