Venture Review
Online ISSN : 2433-8338
Print ISSN : 1883-4949
Volume 25
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  • -Exploratory Research based on Grounded Theory Approach-
    Mitsutoshi Furuya, Hironori Higashide
    Article type: Article
    Subject area: Economics, Business & Management
    2015Volume 25 Pages 15-30
    Published: March 15, 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: September 12, 2020
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    Internal communication is a strategic management theme in the course of a company growth and an organizational development. Intrinsically, internal communication should be considered as a process. However, there have been a limited number of studies to explore the internal communication process. In order to explore and identify the relationship between a venture-growth and internal communication process, the author investigated 10 cases of small, medium and large sized venture companies, which employee numbers are from 10 to 650. Unfortunately, the process model was not saturated. Then, the author investigated 2 fast-growing and bigger-sized venture companies, which have increased the number of employees by over 2 times in the past 5 years up to approximately 3,000. The researches were conducted by interviews and surveys of top/middle/front employees in order to identify communication intentions and actions of presidents and middle managers, as well as reactions and responses of employees against such actions. Using Grounded Theory Approach (GTA), the data was analyzed and the internal communication process model was identified. The model consists of concepts, categories and process map of internal communication process. It presents various internal communications propagated in the organization, initiated by the presidents’ communication intention (originating category) and resulted in the employee’s satisfaction (terminating category). With limitations, the author showed practical usefulness of the model for growing venture companies and the future research area for further improvement. Utilizing the process model, the presidents and the managements may check the employees’ satisfaction level of the internal communication in their organization and consider the communication strategy to enhance the satisfaction for successful organizational development.

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  • -A Study of Strategy Changes in the Pharmaceutical Industry-
    Yoshikazu Fujino
    Article type: Article
    Subject area: Economics, Business & Management
    2015Volume 25 Pages 31-46
    Published: March 15, 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: September 12, 2020
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    The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it is directed to a pharmaceutical industry, to analyze the relationship of the family management and strategy using the strategy group. Second, to point out the problem awareness analysis and viewing angle that has been overlooked in the family business research based on the analysis. Two become clear by this study. First, the import strategy helped the management of long-term view. Secondly, the superiority of the import strategy, collapsed in the Japanese market strengthening by foreign firms. Finally, the big companies of scale tended to end the family manager in the process of conversion to export from imports.

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Case Study
  • -Case analysis of KUROKABE corporation in Nagahama city, and KITAKYUSHUYAMORISYA in Kitakyushu city-
    Takayuki Kimura
    Article type: Case Study
    Subject area: Economics, Business & Management
    2015Volume 25 Pages 47-59
    Published: March 15, 2015
    Released on J-STAGE: September 12, 2020
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    In recent years, constructing the social innovation theory based on entrepreneurs' concepts related to city planning study is receiving a lot of attention. Existing studies have been conducted to analyze re-combination of interests for mobilizing local people with vested rights (stakeholders). As for existing studies, excessive attention was paid on sharing of value based on cognitive legitimacy and innovation based on social legitimacy, integration of abstract level. Therefore, it is a low reproducibility description model. This theoretical limitation can be solved by building the arena by a new value, arranging physical entities and creating businesses based on a concept of Re-combination of interests. To prove this empirically, regional regeneration carried out by KUROKABE corporation in Nagahama city and KITAKYUSHUYAMORI-SYA corporation in Kitakyushu city is examined. In this example, the physical entity, an unused real estate enabled mobilization of resources of stakeholders and realized the regional regeneration program.

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