An Empirical study of the Change of Industrial Society and Organizational Evolution

为了探讨社会变迁与组织变迁的关系，我们从产业层面的变数与组织层面的变数分析着手。在工业层面，我们注意到工业增长，这是根据属于该行业的机构数量的增长来衡量的。同样，在组织层面上，我们注意到了以产业内每个企业的平均员工数来衡量的组织规模。我们根据日本企业普查的结果制作了产业增长与组织规模的图表。从1951年到1986年，除采矿业外，大多数行业的企业数量都在持续增长，我们没有发现每个行业饱和的证据。然而，有一种趋势是，随着行业的发展，组织的平均规模应该减少。这意味着日本的工业增长在大多数情况下是随着效率的提高和行政资源在组织之间的分散而进行的，而不是寡头垄断

In order to investigate the relationship between societal change and organizational change, we started with analysis of variables on industry level and variables on organizational level. On industry level, we noticed the industrial growth which is measured in terms of the growth of numbers of establishments belonging to the industry. On organizational level, similarly, we noticed the size of organization which is measured in terms of the mean number of employees per one establishment belonging to the industry.We made graphs of industrial growth and organizational size from the results of Establishment Census of Japan. From 1951 to 1986, most industries, except for mining, show continuous growth in numbers of establishment and we find no evidence of saturation of each industry. There is, however, some tendency that mean size of organizations should decrease as their industry grows. It implies that industrial growth in Japan was undergone with the increase of efficiency and dispersion of administrative resources among organizations, not by oligopoly, in most cases