Japanese Journal of Administrative Science
Online ISSN : 1884-6432
Print ISSN : 0914-5206
ISSN-L : 0914-5206
Volume 20, Issue 1
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  • Tsunetoshi HORIE, Atsushi INUZUKA, Yasuo IKAWA
    2007 Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 1-12
    Published: January 31, 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: January 27, 2011
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    The purpose of this study is to investigate the relation between knowledge contribution and intrinsic motivation of R&D researchers using statistical analysis.The function and the role of the R&D department in an organization occupy significant positions within technology management, such as in creating innovation or developing new technology both efficiently and effectively, as well as in product development.Prior research discussed the necessity of knowledge acquisition and knowledge sharing, to enhance profit and capability at the organizational level, ignoring the aspect of individuals offering worthwhile knowledge to the organization.In this study, we mainly focused on and analyzed individuals who participate in basic or applied research, because study of knowledge sharing should begin with the individual.A questionnaire survey of 398 R&D researchers was conducted in the R&D laboratory of a Japanese Manufacturing Company.We analyzed factors to enhance intrinsic motivation based upon Deci's self-determination theory, and the effects of intrinsic motivation on improving knowledge contribution.As the result, the analysis showed that autonomy enhanced intrinsic motivation intensively, and intrinsic motivation mediated between knowledge acquisition and knowledge contribution.From these findings, we inferred an important role for intrinsic motivation in sharing knowledge in R&D organizations.
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  • The Transition to an Interaction Effect
    Ayami Kobayashi, Marc Bremer
    2007 Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 13-26
    Published: January 31, 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: January 27, 2011
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    This research demonstrates that the bank depositor discipline hypothesis must be analyzed in the context of an interaction effect between bank demand for deposits and customer supply of deposits. Only when this interaction effect is considered can the real effect of bank-specific risks on the equilibrium interest rate and the equilibrium quantity of funds be determined.The analysis in the paper covers three effects: 1) the interest rate effect; 2) the quantity effect;and, 3) the interaction effect. Previous empirical studies found evidence that depositors penalize riskier banks by requiring higher interest rates or by withdrawing their deposits. Empirical research using recent American and Japanese bank data make clear that including the interaction effect has substantial methodological advantages over approaches that consider only the interest rate and quantity effect.Thus, the main contribution is a theoretically explanation of why the bank depositor discipline hypothesis must be tested with a methodology that includes the interaction effect in its reduced-form equations.
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  • Hamid Hassan, Yasuo Hoshino
    2007 Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 27-41
    Published: January 31, 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: January 27, 2011
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    Japanese companies are increasingly adopting stock options since the amendments in the commercial code of Japan, in 1997.However, there is a lot of speculation about the performance consequences of stock options in the Japanese business environment. We use multiple measures of firm performance to examine the effect of option grants on increasing the net economic value of a firm.We use cross sectional data of 1600 firm-year observations of the electric companies listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange (from 1997 to 2004). The evidence suggests improvements, both in the operating performance and stock market returns, after the announcement of option plans.Overall, Japanese evidence does not accord with the view that managers misuse options to enrich themselves at the cost of intrinsic firm value.
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  • Shah Azam
    2007 Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 43-54
    Published: January 31, 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: January 27, 2011
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    Like many developed and developing countries, Bangladesh has witnessed a phenomenal growth in accessing digital technology particularly using the Internet.Although facing many constraints in establishing an internet-dependent society, Bangladesh Government has paid utmost priority to develop the Information Technology usage pattern in her different sectors.Recently Bangladesh has been connected with information superhighway through submarine optic-fiber cable network that creates a favourable environment to increase Internet usage among various citizens.The study attempts to explore the effects of different factors influencing the adoption of Internet in Bangladesh.The Rogers model of Innovation Diffusion has been utilised as theoretical framework to measure the effects of the factors that account for adoption of the Internet, assuming the Internet as an innovation.A multiple regression analysis is carried out to determine the attributes that affect the intention to adopt the Internet, where adoption intention is considered as the explained variable.The study reveals that relative advantage, compatibility and complexity appear significant among the five attributes of innovation, relative advantage, compatibility, complexity, trialability, and observability considered as explanatory variables.
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  • Akihisa FUJITA
    2007 Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 55-63
    Published: January 31, 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: May 20, 2011
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    Management of customer-oriented organizations tries to institute and continue activities which produce output useful to customers.Customer-orientation exists not only at the boundary of the organizations that link to external customers, but also inside the organization.The climate or atmosphere internal to organizations permeates to external customers.This article refers to management of organizations from the viewpoint of “The Service Chain”.The Service Chain describes a cause-effect chain of individual activities, which results in organizational final outputs.I apply this idea in a vertical and horizontal axis.When we take “Customer-Orientation”in Management of Organization, what is it like? This research note aims to study this question.
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  • Kazuo SUGIMOTO
    2007 Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 65-73
    Published: January 31, 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: January 27, 2011
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    The purpose of this research is to estimate how many career consultants should be required in Japan. The so-called career consultants generally shall consult with working people who face a turning point of their career process such as job incompetence, internal replacement or promotion. They also shall encourage both students and unemployed people to get jobs with psychological and technical support. In 2002 the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) declared that 50, 000 consultants should be created in Japan within next five years. Organizations as schools, companies, public employment bureau and private human business seem to require career consultants. However, up to now the MHLW has not reported such definite number required for each organization.
    This report is the first research to estimate the career consultants' number required in Japan. The required number shall be altogether 85, 000, a far larger number than MHLW announced.
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  • Yoichiro YAGI
    2007 Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 75-83
    Published: January 31, 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: January 27, 2011
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    This research describes some new facts discovered from an actual case regarding individual creativity, which plays an important role in organizational creativity, a topic that has been undergoing extensive discussion since the 1990s.
    The research on individual creativity had been conducted through laboratory-based research in the field of social psychology so far, but it did not consider effects of human interaction on the assumptions. Thus, the knowledge about what factors affect individual creativity in team situations has not taken shape yet.
    This research focuses on the positive correlation between individual creativity and levels of intrinsic motivation which is confirmed by many laboratory-based researches, and inspects what impacts occurred on the relationship within the team situations that described as a case study.
    It was considered that under the team situations, not only a high level of intrinsic motivation, but also a cognitive framework change led by metacognition has a great role in enhancing creativity of individuals.
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  • Atsushi SANNABE, Takashi SAITO
    2007 Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 85-90
    Published: January 31, 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: January 27, 2011
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    The purpose of this study is to investigate whether employees' job satisfaction has affected labor productivity.Using a unique data set which comprises survey data on about 60000 Japanese union workers from 1990 to 2004, we find a positive and significant relationship between Job Satisfaction and per capita operating profits which is used as a proxy variable of labor productivity. Concretely, it was shown that if the company succeeded in raising average Job Satisfaction 0.1 point, per capita operating profit goes up by 1.48 million Japanese yen. In order to control potential simultaneity problems, we implement Two Stage Least Squares estimation and use marriage rate as an Instrumental Variable.
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  • 2007 Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 91-98
    Published: January 31, 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: January 27, 2011
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    2007 Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 99-123
    Published: January 31, 2007
    Released on J-STAGE: January 27, 2011
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