In the job market for new graduates in Japan, the batch employment system has been carried out for a long time, and many students and companies are performing job hunting and adoption activities. In order to get the information of the job market, there are a lot of methods, such as statistical data, newspapers, televisions, etc., but it is difficult to grasp the detailed motion inside the market by them. In this research, the process of job matching was clarified using the Agent-Based Simulation (ABS).

As a result, it was shown that the factor which is confusing the job market is the difference of distribution of a students’ level and distribution of the companies’ level. Furthermore, it became clear how the result of job-hunting activities changes with the differences in the students’ behavioral trait. Additionally, it was able to indicate how students should tackle their job-hunting activities.

This study clarifies possibility of constructing design flexibility as an organizational capability at engineer-to-order firms. First, with reviews of literatures on design flexibility and engineer-to-order firms, this study makes it clear that at an engineer design firm, contribution of design flexibility of its design department to competitive advantage is under restriction. Then, this study proposes an alternative concept, open design flexibility, which is an organizational capability stretched between a marketing department and a design department. After that, this study, all in all, confirms possibility of constructing open design flexibility as an organizational capability in a case study of an engineer-to-order firm. This study implies that engineer-to-order firms can build their competitive advantage by constructing open design flexibility that reduces design cost.