2012 年 33 巻 2 号 p. 47-58
The purpose of this paper is to discuss and make clear the significance and issues in the study of business system. This paper, first, extracts key concepts on the study of business system by classifying accumulated studies from the axes of 'analytical unit'. Then, this paper discusses the features on the perspective of business system by comparing with the related perspectives. The significance in the study of business system shown in this paper is following. First, it makes clear the long-term advantage and the uniqueness of companies and industries. Second, it explains the dynamics of interdependent relationship between companies with value-creations. Third, it can analyze diversified phenomena such as not only competition between companies and industries but also their establishment and continuation. On the other hand, one of the issues shown in this paper is the difficulty in generalizing the results obtained from case-study of business system and in showing the pragmatical implication from accumulated studies on business system.