Faculty of Management, Department of Management
- Professor
- Keiji WATANABE
- Research Field
Organizational Theory, Strategy
- Keyword(s)
Resource Dependence, Institution, Organizing, Organizational Learning, Ecosystem
- Research theme
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- Process from making sense of resource to creating innovation.
- Competitive advantage brought by organizational learning
- Interorganizational relationship and mechanizm of ecosystem
Outline of research activities
To survive, the firm needs to construct the new environment where it can achieve competitive advantage. To do so, it first redefines the meanings of the existing resources. After the meaning of a resource changes, the meaning of its resource dependence may also change. The firm makes sense of the context of resource and resource dependence to stakeholders. It then creates its own business model. I research on such firm that changes its project purpose, its strategy and its organizational structure flexibly, and the ecosystem where firms don’t possess exclusively any resource but try to coexist with the others.

- Desired cooperation
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- Organization Network like Regional Cooperation.
- Cultural Resource.
- Econometrics and Game Theory.