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ディスカッションペーパー / Discussion Paper(1) |
| 公開日 |
2013-05-29 |
| タイトル |
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タイトル |
Teaching KAIZEN to Small Business Owners: An Experiment in a Metalworking Cluster in Nairobi |
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言語 |
en |
| 言語 |
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言語 |
eng |
| キーワード |
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主題Scheme |
Other |
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主題 |
Kenya |
| キーワード |
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主題Scheme |
Other |
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主題 |
management training |
| キーワード |
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主題Scheme |
Other |
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主題 |
self-selection |
| 資源タイプ |
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資源タイプ |
technical report |
| ID登録 |
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ID登録 (DOI) |
10.24545/00001117 |
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ID登録タイプ |
JaLC |
| 著者 |
MANO, Yukichi
AKOTEN, John
YOSHINO, Yutaka
SONOBE, Tetsushi
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| 著者別名 |
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識別子Scheme |
WEKO |
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識別子 |
6716 |
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姓名 |
真野, 裕吉 |
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言語 |
ja |
| 著者別名 |
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識別子Scheme |
WEKO |
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識別子 |
6784 |
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姓名 |
園部, 哲史 |
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言語 |
ja |
| 著者所属 |
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値 |
一橋大学 / Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo |
| 著者所属 |
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値 |
Anti-Counterfeit Agency, Nairobi |
| 著者所属 |
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値 |
The World Bank |
| 著者所属 |
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政策研究大学院大学 / National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies |
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内容記述タイプ |
Other |
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内容記述 |
経済学 / Economics |
| 抄録 |
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内容記述タイプ |
Abstract |
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内容記述 |
In recent years, managerial capital has received attention as one of the major determinants of enterprise productivity, growth, and longevity. This paper attempts to assess the impacts of a management training program on the business performance of small enterprises in a metalworking cluster in Nairobi, Kenya. A previous study of this cluster observed that while several enterprises had successfully expanded operation, the majority had been experiencing declining profits due to increasing competition with imported products and with new entrants in the cluster. Based on the observed differences in management between successful and less successful enterprises, we designed a management training program featuring the basics of KAIZEN, an inexpensive, commonsense approach to management emphasizing the reduction of wasted work and materials, for the less successful enterprises. Although our initial intention was to use this training program as a randomized experiment, we had to abandon randomization and allow every business owner interested in the program to participate in it, due to circumstances beyond our control. This paper finds that business owners operating smaller enterprises tended to be self-selected into training participation. The training effects combined with the self-selection effect, which we estimate with panel data, were statistically significant and particularly stronger on profits than on sales revenues, while other training programs that did not teach KAIZEN had positive effects on sales revenues, not profits. As a result, the participants caught up with and overtook the non-participants in terms of average sales revenues and average profits, respectively. |
| 発行年 |
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値 |
2013-05 |
| 書誌情報 |
en : GRIPS Discussion Papers
Report No. DP13-06,
発行日 2013-05-29
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| 出版者 |
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出版者 |
GRIPS Policy Research Center |
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言語 |
en |
| 関連サイト |
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関連タイプ |
isIdenticalTo |
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識別子タイプ |
URI |
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関連識別子 |
https://ideas.repec.org/p/ngi/dpaper/13-06.html |
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関連名称 |
https://ideas.repec.org/p/ngi/dpaper/13-06.html |
| 著者情報 |
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内容記述タイプ |
Other |
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内容記述 |
https://www.grips.ac.jp/list/jp/facultyinfo/sonobe_tetsushi/ |
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出版タイプ |
AM |
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出版タイプResource |
http://purl.org/coar/version/c_ab4af688f83e57aa |
DP13-06.pdf (715.0 kB)
