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

对所谓的“shinise”或“长寿公司”的研究正在增加。由于从上个世纪末开始的长期经济衰退，我们有很多破产，这吸引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案例研究中得出假设的，只关注长寿公司。因此，由于缺乏足够数量的样本，而且这些研究方法既可能对长寿公司有效，也可能对非长寿公司有效，因此很难判断它们是否有效。本文试图通过对长寿公司和非长寿公司的问卷调查来克服这些研究方法的局限性。它从可持续能力的角度理论化了日本长寿公司的管理特征。

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.