共分散構造分析の概要と分析事例 : ナショナルプロジェクトにおけるフロントエンドの重要性:「評価」より「合意形成」を(<特集>研究・技術計画/政策科学のメソドロジー)

抄録

The present article overviews the covariance structure analysis, gives a summary of its important concepts, and answers some common questions, before describing as an example a covariance structure analysis conducted by the authors on a questionnaire survey on the national projects. The article intends to illustrate the applicability of the technique to innovation studies, and to stimulate interested analysts to better assimilation of it. The example presented here analyzes the management of national projects in terms of their ripple effects that help the R&D and business in participant companies. More specifically, the effects of open discussion on the subjects and tasks in an early stage of a project are compared with those of modifications in the subjects, resources distribution or general policy based on an intermediate evaluation, with some discussion of the results.