In this paper, assuming that a local area is a system, we have discussed “the revitalization of a local area and the diagnosis of its management.” In order to treat a local area as a system and as a target for management diagnosis, we must presuppose the following: (1) definition of its system boundary, (2) organization of the area and (3) quantitative evaluation of its resources and assets. Provided that these requirements are being met, use of visual representation tools like BSC-based strategy maps may well enable us to draw for organization and control of the area a strategic scenario in which national visions are to be broken down schematically into the roles to be played by individuals and organizations constituting an integral part of the system.

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Existing theories on competitive strategies tend to focus on ways to capture more profits than other companies in the same industry. Since the market size for many industries in Japan has not been growing in recent decades, however, competition for allocations of overall sales in the industry is likely to become fierce. This is particularly so in the knowledge economy where those who have expertise tend to have power, and many products require expert knowledge or experience. Customers who have little knowledge or experience are considered unwilling to pay for those products requiring expert knowledge or experience. Therefore, customer value for the customers who have expertise and experience is important in the knowledge economy. The existing theories on competitive strategies, however, tend to focus on company's resources or activities before considering the customer value. Instead, efficiency or profitability for a company has been pursued in the existing theories. This paper views the slackened growth of the market size as a result of failure to consider customer value. A comparison case study between two companies with/and without the customer value perspective in the stagnant Japanese movie industry is presented. The company with the customer value perspective attempted to capture more payments from the customers who have expertise and experience, and achieved more revenues than the company without the perspective. The other company focused on vertical integration within the industry in order to capture more profits and it pursued customers who have little knowledge or experience. Furthermore, the company with the customer value perspective has increased the size of the movie market. The result suggests that the strategist's art is considering from a customer value perspective to increase revenues of a company and of the industry, before focusing on the existing theories.

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Many companies exceeding foundation 100 years remain in Japan. There were many companies born especially after the Edo period, and we summarized the management characteristic of those companies. The method is the analysis which used the balanced scorecard. We analyzed the merchant's family of the Edo period from the viewpoint of financial affairs, a customer's viewpoint, the viewpoint of an internal process, and the viewpoint of study. What should be mentioned especially is having contributed to society simultaneously, though the merchant's family of Edo gives top priority to the side of financial affairs. It is one of the secrets of the long life that the company efficiently employed in society has done the deed good for society. And we propose realization of the society which can continue as a new competition axis of a company. There is Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) as a policy for the realization. The bottom of the view has coexistence of a competitive advantage and sustainability. Just the company which does sincere management to society can turn into a long-life company.

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The role that local smaller businesses play is important to the local economy activation. It is shown that the smaller businesses support organizations that are involved in helping particularly the local small enterprise are crucial to the area. Nowadays, the Society of Commerce and Industry keeps close cooperation with relevant organizations in order to meet the needs of small enterprise. Consultations expertise of small enterprise may be referred to specialised organizations or receive the society's coordination with the relevant organization. In additions, the strengthening measures of the smaller business support network may be utilized if necessary. Management guidance with a support policy relevant to the small enterprise in question brings about a win–win relationship between the Society of Commerce and Industry and the small enterprise. It is pointed out that such guidance is the important tool to activate the local economy.

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The purpose of this paper is to compare some types of cooperation and vertical integration in agribusiness from the aspect of management. “The agriculture commerce and industry cooperation” is the cooperation between different types of business. “The enterprise's entry into agricultural business” is vertical integration to the upper stream by the processor or distributor. “The sixth industrialization of agriculture” is vertical integration to the lower stream by the farmer or their group. How do farmer's management changes result from the sixth industrialization of agriculture? By interviewing some farmers, I am trying to capture validity and problem of vertical integration in agribusiness. This paper attempts to extract consultation point peculiar to management agribusiness to contribute to the activation of depopulated rural regions.

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Since 2004, every national university has been incorporated as a national university corporation. Each university has a requirement to set its objective and to make medium-term plan. In this paper, a tracking system for medium-term plan of national university medium-term objective was developed. The main functions of this system are; (1) to get a quick overview of the medium-term plan and objective, (2) to share information in group, between some groups, (3) to support for preparation of a progress and evaluation report to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, (4) to support for evaluating from various points of view, and (5) to provide ongoing feedback on execution of a plan. The outline of the system is shown. Then, management by objectives in national university corporation is discussed.

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In this paper, we will focus our attention on the potentialities of ICT for regenerating regional communities and the challenges that we need to address in its utilization. Since administrative measures implemented for regional regeneration in Japan are complicated and diverse in nature, ICT applied to each individual measure will not necessarily be able to contribute to the realization of their specific objectives. Theoretically correct regeneration systems might be constructed with proper goal definition and/or system border redefinition and with free use of economic theories and/or ICT. However, after all, their end-users are local citizens. If these systems are to achieve a measure of success in regional regeneration, it will be imperative for as many citizens as possible to share system goals. Therefore, if ICT is utilized to promote citizens' goal sharing, it is expected to play a major practical role in regenerating regional communities.

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In this paper, along with the perspective of system management, we study and analyze Confucianism by applying KJ-method. Furthermore, we propose the systems approach (called as Confucian Systems Approach, which focuses on the intention of solving problems by referring to the ideas along with doctrines of Confucius. Meanwhile, the typical characteristics of this approach, as is mentioned above, are further studied, along with the deeper exploration of its applicable fields.

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In this paper, we analyze the description of building multiple social capitals in shopping street association. This paper shows three hypotheses about building multiple social capitals in shopping street association, and verifies them by multivariate analysis of the data from 290 shopping street associations. The result indicates that three hypotheses are roughly supported.

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The aim in this paper is to enhance the competence of business diagnosis and practice by providing system oriented methodologies with business diagnosis. The contents in this paper also are such as (1) positioning System Sciences; (2) studing indeividual system oriented methodologies; (3) discussing for the domaims of system-oriented methodologies (Meta-Methodologies); (4) applicating system oriented methodologies for business diagnosis.

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It has already begun that Twitter and Facebook, and mixi of Social Media. The Social Media using the Internet to support the construction of a social network promotes communication. In this paper, I study usage method in a company of social media (Twitter and Facebook) and Tablet terminal based on a questionnaire result in JISTA.

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After verifying multiple regression analysis which consisted of positiveness to disclosure, two intensions and psychological resistance. Positiveness to disclosure is independent variables, two intensions and psychological resistance are dependent variables. Consequently, we gained three outcomes. First, informations which supporting for finance has positive influence on positiveness to disclosure and informations which supporting for management are different. Second, informations which mainly used for monitoring to enterprises are proved that psychological resistance has negative influence on positiveness to disclosure. Third, a factor which promotes relationship banking to the regional banks has positive influence on positiveness to disclosure.

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Today in Japan, we are going into the era where all students can go into college or university. Because of this, the levels of university entrance exams have become easy and student's ability, knowledge, and interest have become diverse. Also, university is being evaluated by the students graduating that university, so it has become important for universities how much ability students get and how independent students get after they graduate. In such circumstance, student support on the basis of the diversity of students become important. Student support facilities have been made in each universities and the number of student support use have increased, but on the other hand, correspondence to students who cannot use the student support facilities is becoming a problem in many universities. To correspond to such students, the work of not only student support staff, but teachers which have much more time with students and is fond of finding students sign becomes very important. In this paper, we will consider and suggest about the role of teachers in the effort of student support, from the analysis of awareness and actual action of teachers to student support.

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In June of 2005, the Long-Term Care Insurance was changed and the “Community General Support Center” was founded. Community General Support Center aims to support the improvement of medical health and welfare of citizens, and is hoped to support care prevention. Hence, it is said that there is a difference between centers in the way they work on their services. In this study, we pay attention to operation condition of center's service, and analyze about service records in centers. In addition, we will pay attention to policy of center managers, and analyze and examine relation of policy to service records.

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In this research, author analyzes the mechanism between business process improvement and its effectiveness. A lot of small companies tend to expand their business for the sake of increasing revenue. They sometimes confront some difficult problems and issues such as cost increase, customer claims, business process inefficiency, and staff demotivation and moral hazard. They attempt business process improvement to solve these problems and issues. The author selects a case study of business process improvement in expansion of a small retail company to research the cause and effect mechanism between business process improvement and its effectiveness by applying some existing theories. McCormack and Johnson (2001) researched the relationship between business process and IT investment, and Iijima (2010) insists the importance of “business process orientation” for acquiring the effect from IT Investment. The result of this research corresponds with these theories, which was conducted by a case study of business process improvement in expansion of a small retail company. This research contributes not only to those who attempt to change their business process in practice but also to those who research business process management in the academic field.

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This study proposed and tested a theoretical model of infiltration of organizational business creed using a sample (N=1,569; regular worker: 260, part-timer: 1,309) of retail stores’ employees. Based upon a multiple indicators model, results indicated that organizational business creed was related to uniqueness of the organization, uniqueness of the organization was related to employees’ identification with their organization. Additionally, organizational identification was positively related to the employees’ contextual performance within the organization. The results of multiple group analysis showed the theoretical model of the process was not different by the difference of status. The implications of these findings for the organization management to diversify are discussed.

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This paper focuses on the effectiveness of regional characters. Many local public authorities use a regional character for attracting and promoting their regions. Many researchers and practitioners examine regional brands for regional vitalization. However, little research focuses on regional characters, particularly in management diagnosis. In this paper, we examine the effectiveness of regional characters and the difference between regional brand and regional character. Further, we analyze the degree of market orientation of the organization that introduces regional characters.

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If leader have trouble in decision making in the community, we can resolve it by considering the organizational process and utilizing the four perspectives of BSC (Balanced Scorecard). We discuss the relationship between KPI (Key Performance Indicator) and decision making, as a part of the study on contributions of BSC for great communication in the community. Concretely, we focused on the case of selection about contractor at Park Management. Actually, we verified three hypotheses about the contribution to communication facilitation of KPI using the data from writer’s investigation and knowledge from two previous studies.

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The purpose of this paper is to investigate the perception of Japanese major Vietnamese university students towards Japanese companies. Major findings are as followings; English is considered to be more valuable than Japanese. They prefer Japan to English speaking countries if they study (or work) as students (or business persons)． Students with higher interests and better feelings are eager to work in Japanese firms. Also they appreciate Japanese HRM.

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This paper studies the relationship between Material Flow Cost Accounting targeting production and distribution process and Toyota Production System contributing to the environment and efficient production while clarifying the recent rise of environmental management accounting in the area of management accounting based on the lift of spirit of environmental management, especially the development of Material Flow Cost Accounting and its characteristics. And then this paper proposes the new and original management accounting concept of Material Flow Time Cost probably to promote the integrated evolution of Toyota Production System and Material Flow Cost Accounting.

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In order to keep and support health and happy life of local residents in aging society with a falling birthrate, it is significant to establish and manage the community comprehensive health care system. And, it is necessary to build the Evaluation Support System which evaluates the present condition and progress situation of the community comprehensive health care system, and keeps improving it for establishing and managing it very well. Therefore, in this paper, ideals and roles of the Evaluation Support System for the community comprehensive health care system are described. Next, function, contents, and methods of the Evaluation Support System are designed and proposed. Finally, the result of surveys for local residents and health-medical-welfare facilities in Aomori prefecture was applied to the Evaluation Support System, and outcome and problems of this system are discussed.

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As in the past, there are three main characteristics of competitive diagnosis. First, the objects of competitive diagnosis; management system (micro) level. Second, the techniques for competitive diagnosis; aided technique developed of competitive strategy (ex. SWOT Analysis, Experience curve and so on). Third, static competitive diagnosis; a specific point in time, each factor etc. However, there is a limitation in the management diagnosis methodology and the framework in industry that controls of nation state like the semiconductor industry. In this thesis, I present a important points. That is the relationship analysis among the three components; economic system (macro), industrial system (semi-macro), and management system (micro).

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