Research on the Relation Between Organizational Change of Company and Social Change

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In order to integrate social change theories and population ecological model for organizational analysis I examined the applicability of organizational ecology model to the study on Japanese organizations. I compiled longitudinal data about the life time of factory organizations in 5 prefectures and company organizations in 1 prefecture from back numbers of directories and records of interviews. Especially I used the data of Kanagawa prefecture to investigate the validity of the assumptions of the model.As a result, I found that we need to revise some assumptions of population ecological perspective to apply it to the organizations in Japan. Above all, In the analysis of the data, I found some remarkable tendencies of 'structural inertia' that is one of the most basic assumptions of the perspective.1 When organizational environment is not stable, we can observe an age effect on structural inertia, but when the environment is stable, we cannot.2 We can observe the inertia in some respects such as staying in the same industry but we cannot observe it in size in both capital and the number of members.3 How successful an organization can adapt to its environment is dependent on the initial conditions of itself and independent on the strategies which it adopts in its life course.