A Comparative Study on Business Model Change of the Long-Lived Company

对所谓“长生企业”的研究正在增加。由于上世纪末以来的长期经济衰退，我国出现了大量的破产案例，这引起了人们对揭示长寿公司管理秘密的兴趣。然而，这些研究中有许多是从只关注长寿公司的案例研究中得出的假设。因此，几乎很难判断它们是否有效，因为它缺乏足够数量的样本，而且它们可能不仅长期有效，而且非长期有效。本文试图克服研究的这些限制，通过使用问卷调查，重点是长寿命和非长寿命的公司。从可持续能力的角度对日本长寿企业的管理特征进行了理论分析。

Researches on so called shinise or long-lived companies are increasing. Because of long recession from the end of the last century we have a lot of bankruptcy, which attracts interests in revealing the secrets of management of the long-lived companies. However many of those researches draw hypotheses from case studies that focusing only long-lived companies. Therefore it is almost difficult to judge whether they are valid or not, in the sense that it lacks enough numbers of samples and that they may be valid not only long-lived but also non long-lived ones.The paper tries to overcome these limits of researches by using a questionnaire survey that focuses on both long-lived and non long-lived companies. It theorizes management characteristics of the Japanese long-lived companies from a perspective of sustainable competencies.