The purpose of this study is to solve the dynamism of the strategic deployment process of the corporate domain. Previous studies have focused on the definition and re-definition of the domain. And little attention has been given to about the process embodying the corporate domain. Therefore this study focus on the formation of the business system as the process embodying the corporate domain. In addition, we analyze the case of Sixth Industrialization in Pioneer-Japan-group. We clarify dynamic relationship of the corporate domain and the formation of the business system by this case study.

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Construction of brands heightens value to Japanese primary industries. There are four elements of brand differentiation: feature, ingredients, service, and program. Management of brand differentiation elements contributes to brand construction. And, the element that affects brand differentiation the most is service. Management of brand differentiation elements realized by construction of a platform for making an offer.

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The purpose of this paper is to study how to disseminate the organic farming. Compared with other countries, mainly in Europe and the United States, in Japan, organic produce market is large. However, the penetration rate of organic agriculture has remained at a low level. Government and local governments are trying to solve, but it is not going well. Challenge lies in the development of sales channels of organic agricultural products. In this paper, through to be involved in the new farmers and aggressive, consider the case of distribution companies working on the promotion of organic farming.

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze about the current state of export the agricultural and fishery products from statistical data, and about the economic effect by export in a case of "SETCHU-MAI" produced in the Hokkaido-Numata area. In conclusion, it has a lot of effect by the rising export for development of Hokkaido economy. And It's effective to utilize Information Technology in order to see on "Hokkaido export platform (HOP)" to make export increase at every region in Japan.

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Since insufficiency of medical services, the business model of household medicine lease (HML) system has now been successfully implementing in ASEAN countries. On the other hand, in the field of health and medication, Japan has been suffering from a lot of troubles to cope with the rapid increase of the demand of medical services. The series of our study purposes to present a system scheme of the everyday healthcare via household medicine and ICT (information and communication technology). This paper will present the feature and a case of Continua Health Alliance (CHA), and then present the concept and challenges of community-based self-medication system in utilizing the combination of CHA and household medicine.

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The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of social media in customers' satisfaction and behavior in financial service. Social media is being commercialized as a powerful tool to build and maintain long-term relationships between customers and businesses. This study focuses on one of financial services - indemnity insurance service, which is believed as high perceived risk service and discusses how customer satisfaction, positive WOM, and repurchase intention are influenced by social media through covariance structure analysis.

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In development phase of information systems in financial business, risk management is crucial to be implemented by the appropriate commitment of the top management (CEO) and the information system chief executive (CIO). An intensive questionnaire survey was carried out in the respects of their commitment for internal risk management systems to employee in financial business division based on proposed risk management strategy. Consequently, collected answers involved meaningful suggestions envisaged in their daily activities.

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