In recent years, the diversification of occupations and work styles has led to a significant change in people's values about their careers. It is important for individuals to acquire higher skills in order to develop their careers independently. Therefore, the reasons are investigated why undergraduates go to graduate school, where they can learn more specialized skills. The author's reason for entering graduate school was largely due to role models, so a model was created using Mizoguchi's (2020) research and career anchors. It is considered whether the factor that could be role models from modeling.

Selection standards based on production history have not yet been clarified, and the target farmers hope to improve based on theoretical values. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to improve on previous studies, present farm- and breed-specific culling criteria in breeding pigs, and identify the sources of inter-farm differences. In order to achieve this goal, this research constructed a mathematical model to explain the breeding records and performed multiple regression analysis. Selection criteria were considered based on the coefficient results. The selection criterion was determined from the weight at birth and at weaning. By comparing the coefficient results and the national average, and examining differences between farms, it is essential to increase the number of pigs per litter.

In recent years, an increasing number of companies have formulated a "Purpose", which indicates the value of a company's existence. By formulated a Purpose, companies are trying to achieve what is required of companies in the 21st century, such as achieving consistent and speedy management, fostering a sense of unity and centripetal force within the organization, and providing new value to customers. This study examines what should be considered when building a purpose-driven organization in a student app development team led by the Yuhashi Laboratory at Shizuoka University, which is developing a web application.

Presently, websites provide the same amount of travel information for both business and sightseeing customers. However, traveling information is of little interest to business customers because they do not have the time to travel far and so on. Hence, we supposed that the influence of extensive travel information on the repurchase intention of customers depends on their purpose. Based on Oricon customer satisfaction survey data, we tested two purpose models—business and sightseeing—using multiple regression analysis. The results showed that while the abundance of travel information had a positive effect on the repurchase intention of sightseeing customers, no significant effect was found for business customers. In conclusion, travel websites should provide travel information and content according to the purpose of consumers.

Customer satisfaction depends on their usage environment. For example, Häagen-Dazs is improving its brand experience by providing a dedicated spoon to its customers. However, academic discussions on the impact of product or service usage environment are insufficient. Currently, the focus is on OTT(Over The Top) services provided by Netflix . This study hypothesizes that “the Wi- Fi environment at home, which provides unlimited video viewing and communication capacity, has a positive effect on service satisfaction." This hypothesis was supported using Propensity Score Matching on the results of the customer satisfaction survey for users of OTT services. It is suggested that an effective brand experience can be cultivated by considering the usage environment without being restricted to products or services.

In the 2010s, the event community that regularly held hackathons became prosperous. This study analyzes the formation and sustainability of local communities, focusing on Startup Weekends in entrepreneurial communities. First, we quantified the presence of leaders by network analysis of bipartite graphs. Next, we analyzed by logistic regression separately for community formation and sustainability. The leader has a formative and sustained role. At the time of formation, a mover with a high authority value becomes a promoter and a community is formed. After the formation of the second stage, the activities of small and medium-sized urban communities slow down in a few years. In order to prevent it, it depends on the power of the regional leader.

Living in a constantly changing world requires one to deal with changes effectively. However, humans feel a psychological resistance when facing certain types of changes. In this research, we used online reviews of remakes and enhanced versions of Pokémon games to analyse the resistance that users feel in response to replacive changes and additive changes. Text mining analysis of the review data showed that the ratings of users who experienced replacive changes were significantly lower than the others, whereas they did not change much in case of additive changes. A survey focusing on those games is currently ongoing. An experiment using a custom-made game that will allow further control over the changes is also planned.

In recent years, an increasing amount of attention has been directed toward the concept of open innovation, which is often employed in projects where members come from different industries and occupations. The purpose of this study is to clarify the characteristics of conflicts in projects with highly diverse member compositions. Interviews were conducted with experienced project members, and their verbatim transcripts were analyzed with the aid of qualitative integration methods. The results indicated that the characteristics of conflicts in projects with a highly diverse membership consisted mainly of productive conflicts categorized as task conflicts and process conflicts, and positive coping categorized as cooperation.

In this research, we analyzed the reaction of investor behavior to news announcements in the stock market using stock trading data from the Tokyo Stock Exchange, which contains investors' order information, and natural language processing methodologies. We find that the magnitude of the growth of the volume ratio after the transmission of positive emergency news is relatively smaller than that of other categories of news, and that the magnitude of the growth of the volume ratio after the transmission of news is relatively smaller for large-cap stocks. These results provide interesting insights into the relationship between news and investor behavior.

This paper clarifies the trend of research on leaders under VUCA era by conducting a systematic literature review. Although there is a study which addresses agility, flexibility, information gathering and effectiveness as responses to the four elements of VUCA definition and there are some literatures on VUCA leaders which require exploration, flexibility, decisiveness and information gathering, clear understanding of required capabilities of VUCA leaders and how to train them will be future research opportunities.

The purpose is to allow other hospitals to browse the patient's medical data and provide appropriate treatment in the event of an emergency. This propose include management framework that using UMA that enables user-centered access management and an authorization server that allows users to easily set access control. A user will issue an authorized access token to a specific person from an authorization server, encrypts it with a public key, and stores it in the blockchain. Since it is necessary to prove that you are a specific person at any time the user can decrypt the encrypted access token using the specific person's private key. This allows access to a patient's medical data by a particular doctor in the event of an emergency.

Authentication and authorization in the Web3 architecture requires a shift from centralized identity to self-sovereignty. It is necessary to switch to a decentralized ID system that uses distributed IDs, and to develop a resource control mechanism that leads to the decentralized ID system. As a mechanism, We propose a policy agent in the Web3 environment. We show a policy description method and resource control protocol using RBAC, and show an evaluation environment using a distributed ledger.

Expanding the use of person-to-person money transfer service is key to promote the diffusion of cashless payments in Japan. The service can be used with QR code payment apps. Although the utilization rate of QR code payment apps is high, that of the person-to-person money transfer service is low. Therefore, this study identified factors influence the use of person-to-person money transfer service by conducting a covariance structure analysis using data obtained from a questionnaire survey. The results showed that, for example, the impact of "surrounding situation of usage" on the "perceived ease of use" differs depending on the use start period of QR code payment apps, etc. This study provides new insights into the diffusion of cashless payment.

In this study, we clarify the growth factors of health tech organizations using social network analysis methods. Regarding the research method, we will collect newspaper articles from Lexis, extract a large number of related organizations from the newspaper articles, and create a database. Analyzes are conducted from articles that have been converted into data, and quantitative research is conducted. As a result of the analysis, it is observed that degree centrality and betweenness centrality have a positive effect on tissue growth.

This study is an empirical study of social network analysis using inter-industrial relationship database from news article. Since the market of electric vehicle industry grows rapidly in recent years, our objective is to clarify what kind of network structure is taken by this industry to form a large collaborative network. The results of the analysis show that the structural transformation of the automotive industry caused by the EV shift is significant. That is, a network structure of strong coalitions is observed, which differs significantly from the Keiretsu relationships that represent the traditional automotive industry.

We aimed to develop a food safety culture assessment tool. Based on the GFSI's Five Dimensions of Food Safety Culture, we made a Food Safety Culture Self-Evaluation Chart that evaluates 30 questions on a scale of one to five and conducted a survey of quality control personnel at food manufacturing facilities. We found while the chart helped grasping the present state of the organization, the necessity of the improvement was clarified by the concrete action, event to be evaluated, evaluation measurement by the hierarchy, etc. The finding suggests that it could be a tool fostering a food safety culture.

In the recent decade, the number of in-house attorneys has increased 300-fold, but the reasons for this increase and the actual situation have not been clarified. The Japan Federation of Bar Associations conducted a questionnaire survey on the careers of the In-house lawyers. This paper describes the results of a multifaceted analysis of the survey responses. Due to the large amount of content, the presentation will be divided into two parts. This paper will focus specifically on career awareness and position. What career perspectives do in-house lawyers have for job? Also, are there any characteristics in their advancement to higher positions? Questionnaire data was verified using cross-tabulation and other methods. This paper was presented at the symposium on business reform.

In light of the rapid increase in the number of in-house lawyers in recent years, we conducted a survey to understand the background and specific career paths. We analyzed the skills required in the career path of in-house lawyers and the gender gap in career choices based on questionnaire results hold in 2021. As a result, it was found that in-house lawyers emphasized skills related to administrative work and organizational maintenance when changing jobs, and that the gender gap was small and mid-career workers and men tended to be more likely to be promoted to department manager or higher.

It is aware of the importance of IT productivity improvement efforts and IT promotion policies have been in place for more than 20 years. In addition, digital transformation(DX) has become a trend keyword and companies are expected to improve their productivity through business innovation. However, the reality is that many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have yet to use IT well.

In recent years, a network of support for SMEs is being promoted through collaboration between regional financial institutions and cloud vendors, with the aim of improving SMEs productivity and digitizing management. This report discusses the trends and expected roles of this network.

ID-POS data is often used for data analysis in retail stores, and it makes be more diverse to analyze additional data on customer in-store movement simultaneously. This study will focus its analysis on the relationship between customer movement and elapsed time within a retail store. After classifying the retail store maps into areas according to the product categories handled, we analyzed the relationship between the timing of entry into an area and the probability of purchasing that product category, as hypothesized in previous research. We show that it is important for several product genres in terms of timing of intrusion and probability of purchase, and for many product genres in terms of staying in the product area.

Museums adapt to their environment in which they operate, they need to grow through innovation. The management resources possessed by each museums are limited, making it difficult for them to continuously innovate. This study has the research question of what kind of initiatives are necessary for museums with limited management resources to innovate. To clarify this, the plan of this research is to demonstrate the mechanism by which museums can generate innovation by actively exploring and utilizing external knowledge through collaboration with other organizations. This extend the mechanisms by which prior research on museum business model innovation impacts organizational performance.

Today, with the advance of information technology, many universities have implemented Learning Machine Systems (LMS). This supports a comprehensive learning environment for academic progress. There are various types of LMSs, but in this paper, we conducted a questionnaire survey on the usage and ease of use of manaba, the LMS used by our university, to understand its status and analyze the questionnaire results to clarify whether each function is used. The results of the survey were analyzed to determine whether each function was being used. We also analyzed the questionnaire results to determine whether each function was used. We also sought ways to improve the system so that more users would find it useful.

Our agriproduct overall is decreasing now also farmers and farmland is. The wholesale markets data shows agri keeping prefecture and others about its food independence. Really people is fed by neighbor on modern institutional community. While nationally calorie and money basing two food self-sufficiency rate data is given and released per prefecture. This depicts their each food capacity and could be examined with various census data. We argue a few case on their local food security.

As society, the economy and industry are undergoing a major transition, countries and companies need to develop new social infrastructures and business models to transform paradigms and realize the SDGs through digital solutions and innovation. To this end, we must share the value of SDG-based perspectives with stakeholders and partners, and change the relationships among the components of business and systems that have been in place until now. This will solve the current social dilemma and create a "co-creation society" that will give birth to new industries. This paper proposes a new construction process and definition of business and system requirements necessary for Business & IT strategies to create a digital society that will serve as the basis for a co-creation society.

A binary option is a transaction in which one chooses between two options, one higher or lower than a predetermined point in time, based on a prediction of the rise or fall of an exchange rate or other market. Although it appears to be a simple transaction, it is in fact a financial transaction based on a complex rationale and characterized by a high degree of volatility. This paper examines how prospect theory can be applied to binary options trading by comparing and analyzing the results of two subjects' trades.

While the reason for the existence of financial institutions is being questioned, this paper focuses on cooperative financial institutions. In addition to asking common questions such as daily operations and activities of the corona disaster to shinkin banks in the Tokyo metropolitan area, shinkin banks in designated cities and regional cities, we conducted interviews and surveys using public information about each agency's own initiatives, etc., and compared and researched how they contribute to the local community. As a result, although there are individual differences, it was confirmed that the three organizations surveyed were making common use of regional strengths.

In recent years, various financial institutions have frequently reported system failures. Here, we analyze the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE) stock trading system failure (2020) and Mizuho Bank system failure (2021) based on the six perspectives of risk management strategy to clarify the most important perspectives. As perspectives, "IT risk management" is considered important in the case of the TSE system failure, while "organizational structure and IT governance" is considered important in the case of the Mizuho Bank system failure, as they are related to many of the problems and are important elements in the countermeasures.

The number of FinTech firms using robot-advisor investments has increased in recent years. We will study the management strategies of robot-advisor firms by analyzing their revenue models, public relations and advertising, and forms of alliance strategies based on IR information from several firms, interviews in magazines and other media, and online seminars.

The purpose of this research is to organize the issues of payment using smartphones at bus operators. To this end, the study will focus on bus operators in government-designated cities throughout Japan, examining case studies and current operations to determine the status of QR code payment use on bus routes, and the impact on passengers and bus companies when using QR code payment.

More and more companies are adopting the subscription model. One reason for this is the change in consumer values and consumer behavior. Research has been conducted to analyze appropriate fee structures and business models, as well as consumer usage intentions and churn. The purpose of this study is to identify the consumer profile that influences subscription model churn. Data will be collected through a questionnaire survey, categorized by characteristics, and analyzed. Based on the results, measures to reduce the churn rate of the subscription model will be discussed.

Social games have become a familiar part of everyday life. For companies to maintain the quality of their content, they must keep users willing to buy and continue to secure development costs. In contrast, prior studies have identified the billing element, which requires a lot of spending, as a factor that causes users to leave the game. Furthermore, some of the charged elements with gambling nature are thought to work as control illusions. Therefore, this study explores the facilitators of control illusions obtained from existing studies that can be adapted to social games. We will gain insight into how to secure development costs from users while keeping the gambling nature of the charged elements at the current level.

According to the similarity-attractiveness theory, similarity of emotion can be related to creativity. This study focuses on the similarity of emotion as a factor for maximizing emergence in group activities and aims to clarify the impact of the similarity of emotion on the emergence of group creative activities. We will conduct an experiment using a creativity task as the task between two parties, measure the emotional valence of the subjects using biometric instruments, and collect and analyze their evaluations of the ideas.This research will help companies to increase their emergence by adding the factor of emotional similarity to diversity and leadership, which have been the focus of much attention in the past.

Leaders play an important role in improving affective commitment and team creativity that are essential for organizations to produce results. In this regard, previous research has focused on leadership that falls under credibility. However, there is legitimacy that affects the effectiveness of leaders and is influenced by the process of acquiring the role of leaders, and incorporating this can further heighten affective commitment of members and team creativity more than now. Therefore, this study focuses on election methods of leader selection. We examine the effects of four election methods with different legitimacy through a laboratory experiment and gain knowledge to help organizations produce results.

Japanese companies are increasingly focusing on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) as their workforces become more diverse. interest in LGBTQ+ is significant, and in 2016 the voluntary organization work with Pride created the PRIDE Index to evaluate companies' LGBTQ+ efforts. However, it is not clear whether evaluation by this index is effective for management strategies. Based on previous research, it is necessary to focus on the creativity of individual employees to show its effectiveness. The purpose of this study is to determine the effect and mechanism of company compliance with the PRIDE Index on the creativity of each employee. This study suggests that all DEI measures stimulate individual creativity.

Music influences human psychology and behavior. Previous studies have shown that listening to music before simple work improves work performance. However, there are problems in that only the case of listening to music before work was studied and listening during work was not considered, and that whether the subject's favorite music contributed to the results or not. The purpose of this study is to show the effects of music characteristics, taste, and listening timing on work speed and accuracy. To achieve the objective, the purpose was asked to perform tasks at specific timings, with no music playing and with three types of music playing, and the speed and error rate were measured and compared.

On SNS, topics with content characteristics, such as “girls camping" and “sauna girls", are sometimes used as a means of satisfying a self-esteem need. In this paper, the term "content" refers to the rarity of the target word itself or the content of the user's post, and the fact that it is spread through the share function of SNS. This study provides suggestions on how to effectively expand the market for hobbies and entertainment that involve going out using SNS among the leisure market, which has been depressed due to COVID-19. To this end, the data collected through interviews and questionnaires will be analyzed to determine the demand for the leisure market among women who use SNS.

This study has a research question that what is the impact of inter-organization collaboration. The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the impact of “cooperation" and “donation" collaborations between companies and NPOs in social contribution activities on social evaluation of corporate CSR activities. We employ text mining and multivariate analysis with 376 data from 188 firms in two time periods, 2009 and 2013. Based on the results, we believe that among social contribution activities conducted by companies and NPOs, collaboration through “cooperation" will provide companies with abundant learning opportunities on how to solve social issues and create social value, as well as improve their social reputation, because they can share the specialized experience and knowledge of partner organizations through close collaborative relationships.

Large-scale power consumers, such as buildings and factories, make high-voltage power contracts with the Japanese electric power companies. The basic fee for high-voltage power contracts is based on the maximum power consumption in the past year. If the power consumption in the present month does not exceed the maximum power consumption in the past year, large-scale power consumers can suppress the basic fee. In this research, we consider the characteristics of each industry's power consumption. As a result, we have improved the accuracy of excess forecasts and contributed to effective alerts to many large-scale power consumers.

This study targets Equipment Onboard Merchant Ships. In addition, this predictive sign of abnormality is an outlier in the data. This study used SHAP, a method for interpreting outlier detection models, to identify factors. As a result, not only did the interpretation match that of the person in charge of the model at the location of the failure, but the factors at the location of the predictive signs of abnormality detected prior to the failure matched the factors of the failure. This allows us to suggest at an early stage what might be a factor in the future.

In Support Vector Regression(SVR), two loss functions have been proposed : the ε-insensitive loss function and the quadratic ε-insensitive loss function. However, the latter has only been proposed, and only linear SVR has been implemented in programs. In this study, we implemented a program for nonlinear SVR using the quadratic ε-insensitive loss function and compared its prediction accuracy with that of SVR using the ε-insensitive loss function. As a result, it was observed that the SVR using the quadratic ε-insensitive loss function has smaller maximum squared error and maximum absolute error between the predicted value and the observed value than the SVR using the ε-insensitive loss function.

Many methods have been proposed to forecast future exchange rates. Among them, one of the methods is to use the data interval similar to the most recent data extracted from the past data for forecasting. In this study, we measure the accuracy of forecasting data based on the assumption that the data of past exchange rate fluctuations that are similar to the most recent data are extracted and that the future fluctuations will be the same as the most recent data. The number of data used and the period of forecasting are varied, and each future forecast is compared with the actual price, aiming at a higher forecasting accuracy rate.

Animation studios sometimes offer process economies as returns when they solicit production costs such as crowdfunding. Based on the hypothesis that "the type of preferred process economy differs depending on the genre of animation," this study surveyed the aware-ness of process economies are suitable as crowdfunding returns. The mean values and standard deviations of the survey revealed the working view and intermediate products, such as production sites, scenes, backstories, rejected illustrations, and doodles, were favorable in all genres. While negative information, such as creators' conflicts, busy schedules, and complaints about work. Likewise, private information, such as creators' faces, life advice, and meals, was unfavorable in all genres. The genres of information were compatible with each genre differed from each other.

In this study, we reproduced the sequential decision-making method for specification changes and observed the differences between Waterfall and Agile development. Then, we created Waterfall and Agile models, and used reinforcement learning to learn the decision of "should specification changes be made?" when user needs changes. As a result of observing the differences in decision-making methods obtained after learning, the Waterfall model tended to make specification changes in the latter half of the development process and to accept them less frequently. Alternatively, in the Agile method, specification changes were made in the first half of the development process, and the number of the acceptance tended to be high. This suggests that it is necessary to change how to make specification changes depending on the development method.

This study investigates how organizations compete and cooperate to define regulations in an industry that is legally controlled and composed of multiple types of industries. Time series analysis was applied to a case in the automotive industry in Japan in the 2010s where automatic emergency brake systems were getting popular and regularized, primarily focusing on the case of commercial vehicles. We found that an accident seems to trigger increasing both regulation-defining and competitive actions. This result can be an example as a method to find a case where regulation changes coopetitive actions.

Inspired by the success of the open-source software development projects, open-source hardware movement has begun. Making all the information open gives the advantage that it is easy to get the user opinions online. On the other hand, it has the disadvantage that the genuine product faces the price competition because it is legal to make a compatible device based on the open schematics.

To investigate why the genuine product can survive in the market, we carried out a market survey for the open-source hardware RaspBerry Pi, which has an ARM based CPU and a Linux based operating system. It was found that there are some amount of consumers that always purchase the genuine product even if the price is higher than the compatible ones.

In recent years, robots have been used to serve customers: we see various types of robots. Many of these robots are being used to solve labor shortages, reduce labor costs, and attract customers. However, at the DAWN ver.βalter ego robot café in Japan, operated by Ori Laboratory Inc., employees who are unable to leave the house, mainly due to severe disabilities, operate the avatar robots remotely to provide services.

In this report, we analyze and discuss how services provided through the avatar robot OriHime create value, based on the case of the alter ego robot café DAWN ver. β

With the progress in the IoT technology, consumers start using IoT-enabled devices and services at home. However, they are not widely disseminated since they have both positive and negative aspects for consumers. This study extends the technology acceptance model and tries to clarify factors of how IoT-enabled devices/services are accepted and their causal structure. From the structural equation modeling, we identified that perceived usefulness and perceived trustworthiness positively affect attitude towards IoT devices/services and attitude then positively affects intention to use. The findings will be beneficial when companies that provide IoT-enabled devices/services develop marketing strategy of these devices/services.

The big platformers represented by GAFA are all US companies`. It is necessary to use these to revitalize local SMEs, but there are not only those methods but also Japanese methods. To support 99.7% of Japanese companies which are SMEs is to support Japanese regional economies. Therefore, I will discuss the regional revitalization to use Japanese unique platform and step-by-step DX.

This paper has clarified the characteristics of the policy framework for regional revitalization, based on the trend of philosophical shifts in national land and regional policies. First, it was shown that the concept of national land policy has changed, and that regional policies are intertwined with each other to play a driving role in today's regional development. Secondly, the legal framework of the Regional Revitalization Law was reviewed, and the transition process of the policy goals presented by the comprehensive strategy and basic policy was clarified. Thirdly, it was shown that the regional revitalization policy is not a single policy, but a general term consisting of multiple laws, policy packages, and financial measures, and has a multi-layered structure.

The purpose of this paper is to use the knowledge of environmental and social psychology as clues to consider how more people can be mobilized for community activities, and how digital technology can contribute to this. First, the definition of "related population ; connected mind" and background of its attention were confirmed. Secondly, it was considered that there has been a repeated increase in interest in regional issues on a global scale. Thirdly, based on the theories of environmental psychology and social psychology, the key to motivating people to action was considered. Finally, using the “related population" as a theme, the policy to mobilize more people to local activities and how to utilize digital technology there were considered.