経営はアートかサイエンスか
－Doc2Vec を用いた経営者のテキスト分析と分類－
2019 年 8 巻 1 号 p. 152-158
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2019 年 8 巻 1 号 p. 152-158
It has been discussed for a long time, whether management is an art or a science. Henry Mintzberg has proposed the essential features important to managers, by using artists and scientists as metaphors (Mintzberg, 2004). However, scholars and practitioners frequently use this binary opposition based on their own stereotypes. There is little consensus on the constructs of an art or a science, because scholars have not investigated them. Therefore, the author investigates whether the different types of managers lean towards artists or scientists, through analyzing their own autograph texts. In this study, we use Doc2Vec, which is the method of Natural Language Process (NLP) to extract not surficial, but semantic features of texts written by artists, scientist and managers. The results show that most managers are scientist-type. Among them, successor CEOs, CEOs from inside the firms, headhunted CEOs are especially scientist-types, while founder CEOs are artist-types. Moreover, we find that managers who were educated longer are scientist-types and vice versa. Our findings have important implications for firms that need next CEOs or managers. In addition, our study widens possibilities of Doc2Vec to scholars for further application in fields on Management.
