Corporate Venturing: Trend and Problem - An Analysis ofJapanese Firms -

This study investigated the trend and problem of corporate venturing, based on data and examples from key Japanese firms in 1990 and 1995. Two sets of analyses were conducted on these issues. First, we investigated main types of corporate venturing strategy in Japan. We found that, in general, most of Japanese firms tended to the needs oriented, the small - birth and small - kill strategy. Next, we analyzed our data set in connection with new - business development performance at the corporate level. Data suggested that it was differences in the management system for new businesses within the firm, rather than in the corporate venturing strategy, between high performer group and low - performer group. In particular, we found that incentive factors for new - venture managers have positive impact on new - business development performance. However, we must try to analyze the complex interactions among factors

More than the “Wife Corps”: Female Tenant Farmer Struggle in 1920s Japan

AbstractStruggles over social reproduction intensified and took on new forms in Japan during the interwar period, as the state found it increasingly difficult to secure the foundations for the continued accumulation of capital. Landlord-tenant disputes that erupted nationwide in the midst of Japan's post-World War I agricultural recession was one concrete manifestation of these struggles. While the significance of tenant disputes has been analyzed in great detail by scholars, there has been a surprising lack of historical scholarship on the role that female tenant farmers played within them. This absence is a manifestation of two tendencies: First, gendered assumptions surrounding the figure of the tenant farmer have led scholars of agrarian social movements to work from a relatively limited understanding of what constitutes struggle and by extension, who its protagonists have been. Second, the conflation of waged work as productive work and by extension, non-waged work as unproductive has unwittingly relegated many forms of struggle that working women participated in to the realm of the pre-political. This paper contends that far from being mere supporters – the wife corps – of what was ultimately a male-driven movement, female participants in tenant disputes produced their own powerful critiques of the way that the Japanese state and capital undervalued their lives and labor. As such, they should be understood as one link in a rich history of proletarian feminist struggle both within and outside of the Japanese empire