Multidimensional Study of Relationship Between Corporate Concentration and the Law in an Age of Internationalization and Deregulation -A sociological Analys

本课题的研究重点如下。(1)在了解当前流通行业和制造业重组趋势的基础上，分析了如何运用相应的法律进行重组。(2)反垄断法对汽车制造行业并购的可行性分析。在过去的四年里，我们通过编写一份报告，为完成这一研究做出了最后的努力，其内容如下：1)对当前汽车制造行业包括并购在内的企业集中化趋势进行了调查。我们继续对汽车制造商进行采访，目的是对日本、美国和欧洲的汽车制造商的分销侧和生产侧进行比较研究。2)我们继续对国外的汽车制造商进行采访，以补充我们之前的采访。我们走访了德国和美国的汽车制造商，也走访了这些国家的汽车零部件制造商和汽车销售商。3)我们继续定期召开研究会，了解和分析企业并购和控股公司等企业集中运动的现状。4)我们在过去四年的研究成果中形成了《汽车生产和分销法律比较研究：美国、欧盟和日本》的报告。

The focuses of this research project are as follows. (1) The analysis of how to apply the appropriate laws to the reorganization in distribution industry and manufacturing industry after understanding the current trend in those industries. (2) The analysis of possibility of applying the antimonopoly laws to merger and acquisition in those industries.We have conducted our final effort to accomplish the research in the past four years through making the report whose contents are as follows :1) We have made a survey describing the current movement toward corporate concentration including merger and acquisition in vehicle manufacturing industry. We have continued our interview to vehicle manufacturers for the purpose of making comparative study on distribution side and production side among vehicle manufacturers in Japan, U.S.A, and also Europe.2) We have continued the interview to vehicle manufacturers in foreign countries with the purpose of complimenting our past interview. We have visited vehicle manufacturers in Germany and U.S.A and also visited the auto parts manufactures and car sellers in those countries.3) We have continued our research meeting regularly to understand and analyze the current status of corporate concentration movement such as merger and acquisition and also holding companies.4) We have formed the report on "A comparative study of laws concerning automobile production and distribution : USA, EU and JAPAN" as the result of research mentioned above in the past four years.