Organizational Changes in the Heavy Machinary Enterprises in Changing Japanese Ecomicand Social Structure

本研究旨在研究平成经济低成长期六家重型机械企业的组织结构与文化变迁，从企业对经济社会变迁与适应、环境问题与信息化的认知层面进行研究。在平成时期，加强了以事业部制为基本组织单元、以企业集团为管理单元的研究成果：认识到对环境的积极或消极适应、市场和投资的变化以及信息化进程；感受到了战略和组织形式的变化，但很少有行为和组织文化的模式(习性)；对环境问题的高度关注(引用、再循环)；信息化带来的积极和消极影响；在组织文化维度上，内部比外部更开放，地位更稳定，而不是创新。确定了部门、等级和工作方面的差异。

This research aims to study the organizational structure and culture changes of six heavy-machinary enterprises in Heisei low-growth economic period from the level of their perception foword the economic and social change and their accomodation to it, the environmental problems and informationalization. At the same time, we tried to consider the research methodology sociologically lepistemologically.In Heisei period, when the high-knowledge accumulating and resources recycling structure are continuing, strengthened the divisional system as fundamental organization unit and the group of enterprises as mnagement unit.Some outcomes as followed : recognized the positive or negative accomolation to the surrounding, changes in market and investiment and informational advancement ; felt changes in strategy and organizational form, but very few the patterm of behaving and organizational culture(habitus) ; high interest inenvironmental problems(pallution, re-cycling) ; estimated positive and negative results by informationalization ; at organizational culture dimension, recognized more inner-than outside openness and more stability of position than innovation. Identified the differences in division, hierarchy and job.