List of Dissertation Abstract (Innovation Management and Environmental Sciences)
NameSupervisor

Title
Study on the diversity of corporate
strategy in the restructuring stage ofBairo.EnAkira.Endoindustrial clusters - as a case study ofshoemaking industry in Zhejiang
Province, Wenzhou City, China

Abstract
In the restructuring phase of the present study is industrial agglomeration areas , while small and mediumsized enterprises in Wenzhou of shoemaking industry integration has adopted a corporate strategy of inhouse production , the case that was succeeded by adopting a joint growth strategy for cooperation withrelated companies It is intended to clarify
In China, most of the SMEs are small enterprises and micro enterprises, and most of them belong to lowtech industries. Although they are making great contribution to the development of China’s economy,

Xin CHEN

Yoshikazu
SHUSA

A Study of Networking Strategy

however, there is also the problem that the rate of failure for SMEs is still quite high in China. To survive

applied in Growth Strategy ofnowadays, the entrepreneur of a SME matters a lot. For a SME, how much resource the entrepreneur could

Chinese SMEs

mobilize from his(her) social network has been considered as the key to the SME’s success. In this paper,by using the theory of case-study, I analyzed the features of China’s SMEs’ networking strategy as theconclusion.
The purpose of this study is to reveal the environmental and socio-economic effects of wood biomass
heating systems from the life cycle perspective. This study focuses on absorption water heater‐chiller

Ryota ITOH

Hiroki
HONDO

Environmental and social
introduction effects of woody
biomass energy utilization systemsystems for heating and cooling in a business building, using wood biomass pellet derived from unutilizedwood. The environmental and socio-economic effects are compared between the biomss heating system anda conventional LPG heating system. Although CO2 emissions associated with producing wood pellets
increase, total CO2 emissions in all life cycle stages decrease. Regarding the creation of employment
opportunities, while LPG-related overseas employment decrease, domestic employment related to woodbiomass pellet increase.
In this research, we investigated traffic and life problems and actual movement situation in the mountainarea, quantified the weak traffic villagers, and grasp the needs. As a result, the problems of living andHinako

Daisuke

The role of public transportation

NAKAGAWA

Narumisystem in Mountainous Areastransportation in mountainous areas and the actual movement situation were clarified. We asked residents tograsp the above results and conducted a questionnaire survey to clarify the number of vulnerable people andthe needs of public transport of vulnerable people. The future research theme is to consider introducing newtechnologies such as ridesharing, automatic driving, and to appraise the public transport after improving ofbus.

The purpose of this study is to propose a measure of promoting pro-environmental behavior triggered by thePromoting Pro-Environmental
YusukeHirokiBehavior by A Natural Approach inHIRONAKA

HONDO

Daily Life: Intervention Studies toIncrease Psychological Proximity

presence of PV systems. The results of the covariance structure analysis indicate that the psychologicalmodel that added the psychological proximity to the VBN (Value-Belief-Norm) model has a certain
statistical validity.
The results of two intervention studies using book-jackets printed with the PV systems’ photos or using
video contents to make people focus on the PV systems suggest that the improvement of the psychologicalproximity may facilitate pro-environmental behavior.

Consideration about decipherment

Yuki HORI

Daisuke
NARUMIof an area context and the future's
scenario by which the continuationis possible in a medium mountain
area
Exploring the relationship of theKentaro

Hiroki

MORI

HONDO

life cycle thinking and proenvironmental behavior-Development of the "Sense ofLink" Scale-In this research, we analyzed the living environments by interpreting the regional context and questionnaireon the residents in a medium mountain area, and created a CO2 evaluation model. In addition to preparing
multiple future scenarios for the region, we examined the way of sustainable future scenario by
quantitatively evaluating the impact on low carbonization.
The objective of this study is to reveal the effects of life cycle thinking on pro-environmental behavior bydeveloping the scale of “sense of link” that is a key concept of life cycle thinking. The “sense of link” scalewith good reliability and validity is developed based on questionnaire surveys conducted with high school
students and item anlysis of the collected survey data. The covariance structure analysis results suggest a
psychological mechanism from “sense of link” to “pro-environmental behavior intention”, which indicatesthat life cycle thinking might be effective to promote pro-environmental behavior.
This paper proposes a new view of the free action in the philosophy of Bergson. From the dualism of pure

GentaTakashi

YUSUNOKIMIYAZAKI

Development of Freedom inBergson: The Problems of Dualismand Freedom

memory and pure perception which is described in his second major work Matter and Memory, we draw ananswer to two problems which come from the dualism of pure duration and pure space, and which relate tothe union of soul and body and to the free action. It is the framework of two principles mixture and ofdegree of tension and relaxation that makes possible the union of soul and body and the variation of theintension of free action.