EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ABOUT THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES IN THE FORMAL ORGANIZATIONSIN JAPAN

日本正式组织决策过程的实证研究

• 批准号: 07610217
• 负责人: HARADA Takashi
• 金额: $ 1.22万
• 依托单位: KONAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 1995 至 1997
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-07610217/
• 关键词: ACTOR NETWORK THEORY; DECISION-MAKING PROCESS; モノグラフ; 意志決定過程; 情報化; 日本的経営; エスノグラフィー; 経験社会学; 日本社会論; 企業経営

This research was based on a new sociological theory called Actor Network Theory. Actor Network Theory proposes some new perspectives about social process : we should treat social process with including not only 'human individuals' but also 'non-human materials.One of the findings that this research had made is that the decision-making process in small-size Japanese companies in Hyogo Prefecture is, in general, based on a personal decision of the managers : persuasion by the managers and consent by workers. But the concrete process of the decision-making are very diverted. They depend on the products and the locations, and the patterns of the interaction with the cooperative companies.Second finding is about the information-oriented process. Computers and internet systems are very effective, but within the process of decision making, face-to-face interaction is still very important and decisive. Many managers are ambivalent about the process, because they can get the huge amount of information but it made them difficult to find the information they can rely on for managing their company.Intensive participant observation and detailed ethnographic summarizing will be the next process of this research.

这项研究是基于一个新的社会学理论，称为行动者网络理论。行动者网络理论对社会过程提出了新的观点，认为社会过程不仅包括“人的个体”，而且还包括“非人的物质”。本研究的一个发现是，兵库县的小型日本企业的决策过程，总体上是基于管理者的个人决定：管理者的说服和员工的同意。但在具体的决策过程中却很分散。它们取决于产品和地点，以及与合作公司的互动模式。第二个发现是关于信息导向的过程。计算机和互联网系统非常有效，但在决策过程中，面对面的互动仍然非常重要和决定性。许多管理者对这一过程感到矛盾，因为他们可以获得大量的信息，但却很难找到他们管理公司所依赖的信息，深入的参与观察和详细的民族志总结将是本研究的下一步。