Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD  

This research addresses effective ways of managing corporate design function through appropriate sets of organizationalconditions, which in turn determine the types of design functions. The three types of design functions-Leader, Collaborator, and Implementer - were established through cluster - analysis of survey data, with further in-depth analysis to identify the determinants of the types. Qualitative post-survey interviews were conducted to discover the underlying reasons for insightful phenomena. The research established that different levels of design excellence were associated with different types of design functions, and that the general consumer, as an end user, was a significant determinant of the types. The findings suggest that a given type can also be the result of a strategic choice as well as a company's capability for design. The scope of the design activities and leadership style were found to be important factors in organizational conditions for the company's capability to achieve design excellence.

DOI： 10.1080/14606925.2016.1253233

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：実践経営学会  

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：東洋学園大学現代経営学部  

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The purpose of this study is to clarify what type of organizational factors and management policies have an impact on final design outputs through analyzing surveys of corporate recipients of good design awards within Japan's manufacturing industry. The existing research is not backed up by sufficient number of studies and limited to conceptual discussion. These research has a problem of insufficient evidence specifically explaining what type of organizational factors exert an impact on design outputs and how. Furthermore, these researches has also largely focused on European and American companies and does not take managerial problems unique to design into consideration. This study proposes an analytical framework focusing on organizational factors that define design outputs based on the existing research results. In this study, two findings were also discovered from the analytical results. The first finding is that a company's overall design strategy increases compromising and obliging of the design department and it does not have a positive impact on the integration of interdepartmental cooperation. The second finding is that functional factors such as the authority given to design departments have a more important impact on interdepartmental cooperation and communication than structural factors such as location and formal organizational charts. This study pointed out that these results can be interpreted from two possible perspectives; the design department's low status in Japanese companies and the characteristics inherent in design such as tacitness, evaluation subjectivity, ambiguity of interpretation and flexibility. The contribution of this study is identification of organizational factors that impact design output through quantitative analysis as well as analysis of how those organizational factors determine design outputs. This study further identified problems unique to Japanese companies that have design departments with relatively low status in corporate hierarchies as well as managerial problems caused by the characteristics unique to design.

DOI： 10.24472/keieijournal.32.0_55

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：Cambridge Academic Design Management Conference 2013  

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：東洋学園大学現代経営学部  

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：人材育成学会  

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：International Association of Societies of Design Research 2011  

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：日本デザイン学会  

Business development capturing design as a management resource has increasingly become a significant task towards not only big companies but also small-medium sized companies (SMEs). The purpose of this paper is to analyze what kind of impact is made on design activity of SMEs in collaboration with design universities. From the perspective of business administration, this paper aims to clarify issues in design activities of SMEs and figure out the significant view when considering this collaboration activity. Moreover, two cases of these collaborations with certain results have been selected and analyzed. It has become clear that university-industry collaborations by SMEs help not only to make good use of design resources of universities, achieve a resolution of problems of design activity SMEs face, but also to achieve organization learning through interaction with universities, improve design capacity.

DOI： 10.11247/jssdj.56.93_3

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Language：English   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：International Association of Societies of Design Research 2009  

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Language：Japanese   Publishing type：Research paper (scientific journal)   Publisher：東北大学経済学会  

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