Global Business Journal
Online ISSN : 2434-0111
Volume 3, Issue 1
Displaying 1-5 of 5 articles from this issue
Accepted paper
  • Keiji MURAKAMI
    2017 Volume 3 Issue 1 Pages 01-
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: February 15, 2019
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    General trading and investing companies called “Shosha” have made trading business a core business model, but in recent years they are transforming into a business model that increases the value of investment enterprises through business investment and management and expands consoli-dated revenues and profits. In the business of a general trading and investing company, the metal re-sources business is an important position from the viewpoint of profits and social contribution. However, as compared with resource major companies, they have limited management resources, and they also need to consider the relationship with customers and stakeholders. Meanwhile, in the previous research on the metal resources project, methods of evaluating individual mining re-sources and mine management model have been studied. In this research, we focus on the risk man-agement in resource portfolio management and their value chain strategy through research of their metal resource business and analysis of metal resources industry, and consider the success factors of metal resource investments.
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  • -CASE OF TAKI HIGH SCHOOL BUSINES DEPARTMENT-
    Norihide IMANAGA, Keisuke SHIIMIZU
    2017 Volume 3 Issue 1 Pages 14-19
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: March 05, 2019
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    Using a case study of the “business department” at Taki High School in Aichi prefecture, we de-scribe a mechanism for cooperation between local enterprises, schools and students, and show its effect on student education. The business department was launched in 2014 as a regular club activi-ty that includes “product development” and “business planning.” The product development cooper-ated with students and regional companies created tangible benefits such as the realization of sales and the participation in the national competition of business plan contests. For the collaboration with regional companies, it is found that the mutually-beneficial mechanism among regional com-panies, schools, and students was established by having a coordinator who could adjust the interests of regional companies and students. The educational effect related to the basic abilities to work with diverse people, such as “ability to step forward,” “ability to think out,” and “ability to work in teams,” was confirmed through students' participation in the activities of the business department.
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Special issue: Accepted paper
  • Mika KAWAI, Seigo NASU, Yuki TOYODA
    2017 Volume 3 Issue 1 Pages 21-31
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: March 05, 2019
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    In this paper, we research the starting process mechanism for Japanese Enterprises to involve the Business transformation using the latest Digital technology such as Bigdata, IOT(Internet of things), AI(Artificial Intelligence) and so on. Those new technologies are expected to improve the efficiency and competitiveness of enterpris-es. Here, we report on the key elements to succeed in the starting process and clarify the mecha-nism that influences the the starting process by QCA(Qualitative Comparative Analysis) approach. We are aiming to find the effective elements for executing digital transformation to success the competitive advantage.
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  • Toshiyuki NAKAMURA, Takanori IWAMOTO, Nobuhiro UNO
    2017 Volume 3 Issue 1 Pages 32-36
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: March 05, 2019
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    Premium Friday, implemented from February 24, 2017, is a personal consumption arousal campaign that advocates and promotes economic circles and recommends a premium living than usual on Friday at the end of every month, In this research, we analyze the possibility of Pramium Friday influencing the use of public transportation. Specifically, we analyze the ratio of macro usage of public transportation using smartcard data in Shizuoka. As a result of the analysis, it was impossible to confirm the positive influence of public transportation use by the premium Friday. This result is generally reasonable when considering the number of Premium Friday participants at the present time. In order to demonstrate the effect, it is necessary to reevaluate the appeal and the contents of the implementation.
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Special issue: Accepted case study paper
  • Nobutaka HIRABAYASHI
    2017 Volume 3 Issue 1 Pages 37-48
    Published: 2017
    Released on J-STAGE: March 06, 2019
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    In this paper, I review activities and organizational models when the company is working on big data expansion, and evaluate the impact of spread of IoT and AI on big data analysis and data scientist's job skills. I also hypothesize that a platform strategy is indispensable for the business strategy of big data and conduct a case study of four companies that have already introduced big data such as SoftBank, Mitsubishi Motors, Komatsu, and Rakuten. I discuss the approach of each company's big data business, future strategy, and organizational behavior, from the perspective of platform strategy.
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