<Article>Transfer to a Local City and Business Development of a Japanese Niche Top Small and Medium Sized Enterprise in Domestic and Overseas Areas : A Case Study of Kyoritsu Seisakusho Co., Ltd.

HIRASAWA Teruo

doi:10.15068/00159582

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<論文>ニッチトップ型中小企業の地方移転と国内・海外事業展開 : 株式会社協立製作所の事例分析
ニッチトップ型中小企業の地方移転と国内・海外事業展開 : 株式会社協立製作所の事例分析
ニッチトップガタチュウショウキギョウノチホウイテントコクナイ・カイガイジギョウテンカイ : カブシキガイシャキョウリツセイサクジョノジレイブンセキ

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the business development of the niche top type small and medium sized enterprises, which are expected to take revitalization of regional economies or a role avoiding deindustrialization. In this paper, we focus on the case of Kyoritsu Seisakusho Co., Ltd. （KS） based in Chikusei City, Japan and clarify as follows: [1] KS formed a base of the company development by making an integrated production system after transferring the factory from Tokyo to the local city in the early 1970s. [2] KS got a position of the niche top in the main spool market of the hydraulic equipment parts after the 1990s, and [3] it realized switch from business relationship to depend on the specific company by newly entering the assembling business of the products as well as the processing of the hydraulic equipment part. [4] KS also overcame limitation of the production expansion in Japan and formed new business relationships in Shanghai, China by establishing a local factory there at the same time. [5] By these results, KS achieved the company growth that was higher than it past as well as adapted to the changes in the external environment after the collapse of Japanese bubble economy.

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国際日本研究

国際日本研究 12 23-44, 2020

Master's and Doctoral Program in International and Advanced Japanese Studies, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba

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