私立大学の環境適応に関する実証的研究 : 規模の経済性と取引費用の関係に着目して

Empirical Research on Environmental Adaptations of Japanese Private Universities: Focusing on the Relationship between Economies of Scale and Transaction Costs

Maeda Kazuyuki

広島大学大学院人間社会科学研究科紀要. 教育学研究

Bulletin of the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hiroshima University. Studies in education

[ISSN] 2436-0333

[NCID] AA12909086

Japanese Government and Industries have been claiming the improvement of university governance in the face of the “Knowledge Based Economy”. However, their claim is often based on an industrial logic of profit making that is difficult to apply to universities. A university maintains various social relationships and its goals are multifold. Moreover, it has been said that internal transaction costs of a university are higher than those of profit organizations. This paper analyzes Japanese private universities’ environmental adaptations focusing on the relationship between economies of scale and transaction costs. The author found that large universities had the greatest scale merit but the lowest adaptive efficiency and that small universities were more adaptive than them. These results suggest that the governance reform promoted by the government may not be relevant due to large internal transaction costs and that university mergers, also promoted by the government, may not generate as much scale merit as expected because of the decline of adaptive efficiency.

Transaction Cost

Efficiency

Organizational Inertia

Ambiguity of Scale

取引費用

効率

組織の慣性力

規模の両義性

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[ISSN] 2436-0333

[NCID] AA12909086