This study investigates how a company may maintain a high Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) standard through the fourth industrial revolution. Therefore, this study focuses on the impact of firms' R&D capabilities on OSH, which is based on knowledge management strategies. The analysis involves data from 100 U.S. companies in the manufacturing sector. The data describes incident rates, R&D activities, as well as investment in new technologies. This study demonstrates that although high R&D capabilities always promote OSH, low R&D capabilities with high investment in new technologies greatly impairs OSH. This study provides theoretical contribution to absorptive capacity theory and safety research as well as practical contribution to safety strategy for companies.

In this paper, we analyze regional characteristics based on the standard grid square using probe-car data in Tokyo. In our analysis, we create regional clusters on specific events such as train accident the Economic Census for Business Frame and investigate statistics. Additionally, we create clusters based on taxi movements between the standard grid squares. Then, focused on specific events such as train accident, we analyze the change of the clusters. Finally, we consider a few characteristic local regions.

In this research, we analyze the Wi-Fi log created every day in the recent widespread Wi-Fi environment, and make an effort to acquire user behavior. First, since Wi-Fi log will be huge and a calculation time to get users transitions will be very long, so we propose an algorithm for calculating the transition probability matrix and show a calculation time as a guideline for . Moreover, in order to confirm an ergodicity, that is the basic property of Markov chains, from the obtained transition probability matrix, we clarify a relationship between sites from a directed graph. By using basic properties of Markov chains of the transition probabilities obtained from Wi-Fi logs, we aim to get users behavior.

This study demonstrates the effect of structural fold, which is a position in a network of companies adopting the same engine for innovation. The data comprises an index calculated from a network of 110 shipbuilding companies in the world in 2009, using the same engine adopters with a tie. Using multivariate analysis of a negative binomial regression model, this study demonstrated that the structural fold facilitated a company's adoption the engine. The theoretical contribution of this study to network theory is using archival data to demonstrate that recruitment by companies located in the structural fold is important for the diffusion of innovation.

The purpose of this research is to measure the competitive advantage period and the value of intangible assets which have been difficult until now. A model combining RI and CAP was constructed as a measurement method with objectivity and feasibility. The average CAP for each company revealed the cycle length, growth and decline of each business. Also, new indicators such as intangible assets per capita, and CAP were obtained. There is a contribution that can complement the part that indicators such as ROE miss. Introducing the concept of imaginary time, which is negative time, enables analysis with a high amount of information. It was possible to show that the conventional macro aggregation cancels out the positive and negative numerical values.

This research focused on knowledge stickiness, a major factor that hinders technological knowledge transfer. The study demonstrates the effect of knowledge stickiness within the corporate group, on the group's creation of new technologies. The study uses patent citation data between the parent and subsidiary corporations of 39 chemical industry corporate groups in Japan, and 234 time series grouped data for a six-year period, from 2013 to 2018. The results show that both the parent and subsidiary corporations with low knowledge stickiness, efficiently produced more new technologies in the group, but the effect was curvilinear. This research is not only a theoretical contribution to organizational learning theory, but also a high practical contribution to the technological strategy of group companies.

This research focuses on the raw materials trading and technology insertion networks of the Japanese petrochemical industry. Although there is overlap in knowledge, this study demonstrates the influence of both networks formed between companies with completely different relationships on research and development (R&D) capability. The study uses indexes calculated using network analysis for two years in 2009 and 2013 and performed a negative binomial regression model analysis. Each centrality index of both networks not only improved R&D capability, but also had an interaction effect. Demonstrating the use of multiple different corporate networks in combination not only contributes to network theory and absorptive capacity theory, but is also a practical contribution to innovation strategies.

Using a network of international students in the Meiji period, this study demonstrates the effect of early acquisition of new knowledge and the network of friendships formed at study abroad destinations on various activities in Japan after studying abroad. Multivariate analysis was conducted using data from 702 international students from 1875 to 1912. The results revealed international students studied abroad early, and are in a network position to obtain easily new information were active in various fields after returning to Japan. This study showed the importance of freshness of knowledge and information, and contributes to not only knowledge absorption capacity theory and network theory, but also adding a new perspective to the study of international students in the Meiji period.

Subscriptions have existed for a long time, but in recent years, they have been adopted as a form of providing products and services in various fields. In the United States, so-called “subscription boxes" have become mainstream, and by offering attractive products to customers at a fixed price, they create life time value (LTV) and seek monetization. This paper classifies the subscription business model into three stages, clarifying the characteristics of each, and proposes the strategic nature of the business model, taking into account the factors that increase subscriptions and the success factors.

The impact of the new coronavirus(Covid-19) on socio-economics is immeasurable. To survive, each company confronts and overcomes a dramatically changing business environment. Human behaviors(ConcClosed*、ConcGather*、ConcContact*)are a symbol of economic activity. Business innovation is required as a measure against Covid-19. In order to manage the crisis encountered by companies, we attempted to consider the business environment objectively and organize it. *Coined word

In this paper, we propose method to examine and construct business models for DX (Digital Transformation). We divide business models into four perspectives. And, we propose the way to construct business model from the combination of elements of each perspective, in order to create the optimum business model efficiently. And, we propose the standard procedure to accomplish DX project involving examination of business model.

The shift to digitalization is awaiting, and Corona is accelerating its direction. And this effect is affecting the whole life, and it is necessary to shift from analog culture to digital culture. As a result, the impact extends to organizational and work-oriented awareness. This can be thought of as a personal aspect and a corporate aspect, but this paper mainly focuses on the corporate aspect. The point lies in the shift of corporate culture. In this respect, there have been studies such as organizational culture model and change curve model. Therefore, while unraveling these, we conceive a framework for the transition of a company to a digital culture, and consider the actual transition of the corporate culture based on it.

The purpose of this study is to research the possibility that the global responsiveness of overseas subsidiaries and companies with many overseas businesses may increase the success rate in cross-border M&A by Japanese companies. In this regard, there is little accumulation in previous studies. We analyze the reaction of the stock market to cross-border M&A using the event study method, and further analyze multiple regression analysis on the overseas sales ratio to the market effect. As a result, it is clarified that the market is negatively evaluated for cross-border M&A. Further it indicates positive evaluation by the market for the global responsiveness when Japanese companies with many overseas businesses conduct transactions through overseas subsidiaries.

In recent years, the market environment has changed, such as commoditization in mature markets, increasing expectations for solving social problems. Moreover, recent customers require some kind of different new value. As a result, recent companies offer new value to their customers by clarifying the unique value of the company and proving the existence value of their brand. Therefore, this research aims at creating and implementing method a brand purpose that can respond to changes in the market environment in recent years by focusing on brand purpose, organization construction, and purpose engineering. Specifically, it consider creating and implementing method of a brand purpose by cycle of discovery and re-discovery, information transmission, organization construction, and implementation and evaluation.

In commercial facilities such as department stores and shopping centers that have multiple tenants, it is important not only to improve the profit of a single store but also to improve the profit of the entire commercial facility. We propose an optimization method of marketing resources by considering the cascading effect of store use. Using this method, we can estimate and extract stores and prospective customers that should be prioritized for sales promotion, and then we can understand the characteristics of customers on store visits. By applying this method to the actual purchase history, we estimated the number of store visits by customers, understood the customers' characteristics, and extracted stores/customers who should intervene.

This research focuses on the impact of communication in the virtual laboratory on students' motivation for the research. A structural equation modeling was constructed using the questionnaire results from 41 students using the virtual laboratory. The students can feel someone close to them even if the virtual laboratory is designed in two rather than three dimensions. This illusion brings active interaction among students. This study demonstrated that this interaction among students generates a feeling of unity as an organization and increases their research motivation. In conclusion, the results suggest that a virtual laboratory can be leveraged as an educational tool even after COVID-19.

Increasing the number of university spin-offs that commercialize university research and technologies has become a challenge and universities have gradually adopted RA (Research Administrators) to support spin-offs. This study demonstrates the impact of the diversity of RA's experience on the increase in spin-offs. The data were from 401 universities in Japan in 2018. We demonstrated the number of RA, the diversity of RAs' previous work experience, the percentage of long-term employees, and the training system positively impact the number of spin-offs. This study theoretically contributes to the resource-based view by quantitatively demonstrating the effectiveness of RA and practically contributes to making strategic recommendations from results of interaction effect for the effective operation of RA in increasing spin-offs.

The “liability of newness" makes a venture firm's cash flow difficult. We demonstrate the impact of quick profitability on a university-originated venture firm's representative and university attributes, location of establishment, and related researcher. We use data obtained by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry from 115 firms between 2016 and 2019. A multiple regression analysis shows that it is easy to profit when the representative is a researcher. Furthermore, we examine the effect of the interaction between the attributes of the representative and those of the university. This reveals a prompt surplus mechanism. This study is a theoretical contribution to the study of emerging entrepreneurs, and it makes a practical contribution by presenting a strategy for establishing university-originated ventures.

We predicted daily stock price fluctuations in the Japanese market based on inter-firm relationships and examined the predictability of stock price changes between the normal and the corona shock period. Using Japanese securities reports, we examined the impact of stock price fluctuations on one firm's stock price on the other. As a result, we successfully predicted these fluctuations on a daily basis. In addition, the alpha value of the stock price fluctuations in the corona shock period was larger than those in normal times, suggesting that the effectiveness of the stock price predictability is higher. In particular, a significant impact on the stock price fluctuation was observed in a customer-to-supplier relation, a downside event, and/or a case in which the customer company is a large corporation.

In recent years, the securities industry has been actively considering and introducing FinTech services. In this report, we focus on smartphone-only securities, one of FinTech services in major and semi-major securities. In 2019, Nomura Holdings established LINE Securities, a joint venture with LINE Financial. In addition, Daiwa Group Headquarters and Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings have established smartphone-only securities. We analyze each company from the viewpoint of management strategy and consider the current issues and future outlook.

The purpose of this study is to record, predict, and deliver beautiful moments in everyday landscape, and to derive potential tourism resources. We re-evaluate our everyday landscape, focusing on the sunset. First, we calculate a color distribution using RGB distance from teacher images. Next, we calculate a similarity of a color distribution between image of the fixed-point camera and teacher image to obtain a degree of beautiful sunset. Next, forecast dataset is created from open data, and this model is constructed using a stepwise method and logistic regression. This case, we confirm that there is more than 80% probability of forecasting a sunset. In the future, we will make this model able to use everyday landscapes as local tourism resources.

Swiftly submitting a product recall notification reduces subsequent damage. This study demonstrates the influence of outside directors and whistleblowing on such submission. We use 111 notifications from 15 automobile industry firms in Japan in fiscal year 2019. Multivariate analysis shows that a high ratio of outside directors and frequency of whistleblowing have a negative effect on notification submission. We also examine the interaction effect between the outside director ratio and whistleblowing. The analysis reveals that outside directors have a positive effect on submission when whistleblowing occurs frequently, but otherwise have a negative effect. This study makes a theoretical contribution to top management team research and a practical contribution by proposing an effective outside director ratio and whistleblowing system.

This study demonstrates the impact of the halo effect on renewing contract of Foreign Employees in Meiji, Japan (“Oyatoi-gaikokujin"). The halo effect is the tendency of existing evaluations to influence subsequent ones. We used financial data from 1874 to 1876, and the directory. The results reveal that due to the halo effect, high education and past performance earn higher pay, but result in less than expected outcomes; meanwhile, those with lower expectations are more likely to be rehired. This study contributes to the theory of cognitive bias by demonstrating the halo effect, which is difficult to quantify and made a cross-disciplinary contribution to the field of Japanese history.

In order to responding to declining working population and promote work style reform, it is necessary to realize the automation of white-collar operations for the purpose of improving productivity. It is necessary to carry out stocktaking and visualization of business and clarify the work procedure to be automated, so as to maximize the effect of improvement in business improvement. In this case report, we will introduce case studies of work improvement that were carried out focusing on confirmation of the effects of RPA application and analysis of the current state until RPA application, and prior arrangement.

The interventions implemented in each region to prevent the spread of COVID-19 depend on a great many factors. In order to estimate the effects of the interventions, a large number of those factors need to be analyzed in combination. Fujitsu Laboratories have developed Wide Learning which can search for combinations of data items exhaustively and rapidly to find out important combinations. Using this Wide Learning, we analyzed the success or failure of the interventions in each region through August 2020. Furthermore, based on the results, we use a what-if analysis to estimate the effect of each intervention in each region and at each point in time.

The goal of this study is to clarify the effect of policies for promoting innovation at SMEs by local government Osaka city. For this aim, this study takes as a case of the innovation promotion policy: "Osaka Top Runner Project". An empirical investigation based on interviews and questionnaire surveys revealed the following point. This study found that small and medium-sized enterprises not only acquire firm-specific informational resources, but also try to create new resources by utilising resources acquired by the support of Osaka Top Runner Project.

This paper reports the results of a structural validity evaluation of the "DX Promotion Index" using the 293 self-diagnosed data collected by the Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan. As a result of confirmatory factor analysis, the structural validity of the DX Promotion Index in its original structure has confirmed. As a result of exploratory factor analysis, a two-factor model was derived in which the indices related to management and IT systems were distinguished. In addition, a four-factor model was derived in which the indices related to the management of the two-factor model was divided into three. The structural validity of the four-factor model has also confirmed. This study showed the possibility of organizing the DX Promotion Index as a four-factor model.

In public administration, open data efforts to provide data in a freely available form are spreading. Open data can also be used for commercial purposes. Therefore, there are some cases where open data published by public administration is actually used for commercial purposes. This study analyzes the use cases of "Open Data 100", which is a collection of use cases of open data published by the National Strategy office of Information and Communication Technology, Cabinet Secretariat, and verifies the possibility of commercial use of open data.

Agribusiness diminution in vegetables distribution is seen distinctively on case of Honshu four regions. There city population depends the daily fresh on less legacy farmers around who would likely concentrates other typical operational division. The census tells their multi-income operation so planting acreage ongoing decreased, the wholesale markets data does region inside production and its rate going lost in almost staple items. Import products there does not solve the decrease and price rise. I try to search on the case.

The year 2020 has seen a major impact on the securities industry as the coronavirus rages around the world. Through interviews with face-to-face and online securities firms, this report confirms that while face-to-face securities have seen a decline in sales due to business restraint, online securities have seen a significant increase in new account openings due to a tailwind from the disturbances.

With the spread of new coronavirus infection, our lifestyle is changing. Under these circumstances, daily consumption activities and accompanying payment methods are changing. In other words, the risk of infection through cash is taken into consideration, and contactless cashless payment is drawing attention. In this report, we analyze the trend of cashless payment utilization rate and survey the awareness of infection control in cashless payment.

DX can be pertinently defined as "mastering the use of data and IT to create new value." The senior management plays an extremely important role in DX organizations, there is often a lack of appropriate human resources within such organizations; hence, it is necessary to hunt talent from outside the organization. Satisfactory annual salaries and work freedom are essential requirements when recruiting human resources in order to ensure competitive strength. In addition, a management that delegates human resource recruitment decisions and organizational operations to a DX organization, avoids micromanagement of human resources, and permits freedom with tolerance for mistakes is essential for promoting the creation of new value.

In this study, we propose a valuation method for the similarity of firms and apply it to the valuation of unlisted firms. In this paper, we propose a new valuation method for non-listed companies based on the similarity of sales, operating profit, and ordinary profit with the target company. Based on the comparable company method, we aim to improve the valuation accuracy by creating a new indicator, the degree of similarity. Since we are considering to apply our method to unlisted companies as well, we select the financial data to be handled, and aim to propose a new enterprise value evaluation method. In this presentation, we use only the financial ratios as a measure of similarity, but we also consider weighting each financial item.

In Japan, credit cards are the mainstream for cashless payments. In this report, we conducted a questionnaire survey on the usage status of credit cards and QR code payments for Shizuoka university students, and compared and analyzed changes in usage status from the results of questionnaires with different survey periods, as well as analysis of usage purposes. We will consider the possibility of using QR code settlement together with users.

Machine learning is attracting attention due to the success of AI image recognition and game AI represented by AlphaGo. Also, due to its high accuracy, it is being applied to various fields. In particular, the application of reinforcement learning has become active due to the success of autonomous driving technology and game AI. Currently, research on strategy acquisition in financial market transactions using machine learning is also active. In this research, we aim to acquire trading rules by using reinforcement learning in foreign exchange margin trading (FX).

In recent years, there has been a lot of talk about real estate and investments. The purchase of a prime property is an essential item in order to efficiently earn a profit in real estate investment. Therefore, we interviewed property owners to analyze what characteristics a quality property has and how much investment efficiency can be gained by purchasing a property with those characteristics.

Presently, in order to prevent infection with the new coronavirus, face-to-face close assembly is regarded as a problem, and online meetings are being held by various organizations. Some student body hold online conferences with an online communication tool, too. However, it is difficult to communicate vividly by the online conference than offline conference in terms of space, voice, and vision. In this report, we confirmed empirically based on audio recordings and questionnaires at a conference held by student body that alternates between online and offline conferences.

For small-sized manufacturing enterprises, speedy planning operation and progress management operation for variable models in variable quantities are essential. Although there are many kinds of production planning software for production planning, they are not used in SMEs. It is because these kinds are expensive and have no sufficient functions for the enterprises. In the existing conditions, experience and repetition of trials and errors make the planning of production schedules possible. Therefore, we propose a tool which supports heuristics scheduling by directly inputting to a Gantt chart with no use of conventional approaches. In this paper are reported the design contents of our trial system and the method for operation efficiency and automation by use of Robotic process automation (RPA).

In recent years, it is essential to integrate new ICT technologies such as AI and IoT into the service system infrastructure. However, at present, the methodologies corresponding to these technologies are insufficient, so it is difficult to secure the quality such as the provision of services, which lead to unsatisfying the imagined value. Therefore, it is an urgent task to establish a service design method that supports AI and IoT based on Product Line which improve the quality and productivity of development process.

Effective utilization of external knowledge is important for innovation creation. Recently, the concept of reabsorption, where an originating firm reabsorbs its spilled knowledge, including the advancements made by recipient firms, has attracted attention. Although existing studies analyzed the impact of reabsorption on the number of patents, the impact of reabsorption on patent value is not sufficiently clear. In addition, the impact seems to depend on reabsorbing what kind of knowledge. Therefore, this study attempts to clarify the impact of reabsorption on patent value focusing on knowledge similarity.

Japanese government and firms conduct various policies to raise the ratio of cashless payments to private final consumption expenditures. Under these situations, mobile payment applications have attracted attentions. And it is required to diffuse it to people who feel difficult to use a smartphone app. This study aims to clarify the factors impacting on people's decision making for using mobile payment application and person-to-person money transfer service, focusing on the existence of person whom they can ask about smartphone app. Our results show that, regarding to people who feel difficult to use a smartphone app, the existence of family whom they can ask about smartphone app has a positive impact on using person-to-person money transfer service.

In recent years, active learning has been increasing in educational settings. Above all, group work represented by PBL (Project Based Learning) is increasing. As research on the educational effects of the group work, various studies such as evaluation methods and teaching materials and so on have been conducted, but there are few studies on the group leaders. In this research, we focus on leader selection in a university that means the less hierarchical structure. We will research the conditions that candidacy students to take "Lead-the-Self" behavior.

In recent years, due to technological progress and changes in social conditions, the transition to an online environment for organizations is rapidly progressing. In particular, in universities, human relations are weakening, and the amount and quality of support that people receive is declining. Mentoring is a representative form of the developmental relationship between mentors and prostheses, and is beneficial to both mentors who provide support and those who receive support. In order to build a lively relationship like the conventional offline environment in the online environment, the concept of emotional contagion in psychology is applied to investigate the contagion of mentoring. A case study will be conducted in a university laboratory, and through analysis, how existing mentoring will affect others will be clarified.

The development of information technology has drastically changed the working style and workplace. One of them is the emergence of virtual teams, and how to manage these virtual teams, which are different from traditional real teams, has been recognized as a new issue. Therefore, research on leadership of virtual teams is attracting attention. In this paper, we define shared leadership as a team state in which leadership influence is distributed among team members, and examine whether the statistical variance can be used to measure how much leadership is shared among team members.

Interest in sports sponsorship has increased as part of corporate marketing strategies. An increasing number of sponsor companies are using social media to achieve their goals. In order to maximize the effect of this utilization, it is important to have a high sponsor fit, which indicates the degree of conformity the consumer has between the image of the sponsor company and the team or player who is supported. However, little research has focused on how the content of social media influences sponsor fit. Therefore, we categorized from the viewpoint of how the content sent by Twitter of the sponsor company influences the sponsor fit, and I confirmed that the categorized content can be a leading factor of the sponsor fit.

Due to the rise of ICT tools, workplaces have a mixture of real workplaces such as office spaces and virtual workplaces such as online spaces that use ICT tools. And employees use both workplaces. Employees spend a lot of time at workplaces and foster workplace friendship through the interaction in the workplaces. Therefore, the research subject is employees who use both real and virtual workplaces. And the research purpose is to identify what kind of workplaces affect the occurrence and strengthening of workplace friendship. Two research questions were set and analyzed to achieve the research purpose.

This service is a service that guarantees the correctness of prescription performance against loss of prescription memory due to deterioration in cognitive ability of patients and input errors at pharmacies. This application prevents tampering with the patient's drug data and displays accurate data, which contributes to the credibility of the data. However, at present, there is a lack of corresponding methods, and the credibility is lacking, making it difficult to propose a service, and if the medication notebook app is tampered with, the credibility of the application is compromised. Therefore, in order to improve the credibility of the application, it is a challenge to improve the credibility of the medicine notebook application by using the hash function of Hyperledger Iroha's private chain or block chain.

It is becoming clear that humor has multiple and significant meanings and functions in our daily lives. Although much research exists on a sense of humor as defined by individual personalities, there is a lack of research papers on the ability of humor to be defined by interrelationships within organizations. Previous research has shown that joking behavior is facilitated by the perception of joking relationships. The promotion of individual joking behaviors may improve sense of humor in organizations. In this study, we conducted a questionnaire survey using the MSHS for humor and a questionnaire for the perception of joking relationships, and clarified the correlations between each factor of MSHS and the sense of understanding and acceptance of others.

One of the digital transformations is MaaS. The purpose of this paper is to consider the proposition, "Can Toyota compete with Google in MaaS?" MaaS is a new concept that provides a comfortable mobility service after integrating and optimizing all modes of transportation. It is considered to be software that combines multiple transportation services from the user's perspective, completes route search, reservation, and payment with a single smartphone application, realizing a seamless mobile experience. Toyota has entered MaaS, but not in the car, but in the software development race. In this article, we will consider whether Toyota can compete with Google in software development.

In recent years, flaming which is a phenomenon that critical comments are flooded to social media about what a person has said or done is on the increase. Then it has become a serious phenomenon that becomes a social problem. Most of the previous research on flaming refers to those who write the story that flame and those who make critical comments. However, people whose aim is to spread the material of flaming rather than to directly make a comment make flaming serious. This "oilers" haven't been well researched. Therefore, we will propose a measure to reduce the number of people who will be excessively damaged by flaming by clarifying the characteristics of “tokuteihan" among “oilers".