토요타와 혼다의 기업문화와 경영권승계에 관한 비교연구

Abstract

The corporate culture will affect the succession process of management rights. Toyota Motor and Honda Motor are Japanese model company and same type of industry, but different in the corporate culture. It is the first purpose of this paper to look for the differences of the corporate culture in two companies. The next purpose is to find out the influence of corporate culture for succession process of management rights. Then it is on the assumption that the corporate culture is formed on the basis of the entrepreneurship and management philosophy of the founder. According to results of my research, it is as follows. Simply defined, the corporate culture of Toyota are composed the strong reliance for toyoda family, familism based on personal connection of the same kind, improvement-oriented principle of field(genji-genbuts and kaizen), economy mind established. These cultures of Toyota are based on the inventive genius of Sakichi Toyoda, founder spirits and management philosophy of Kiichiro Toyoda-rationalism for production and management. The corporate cultures of Honda Motor are composed familism based on exclusion of personal connection, group composed of different kinds, originality of product, goodwill for technician. These cultures of Honda Motor are based on the entrepreneurship and management philosophy of Soichiro Honda - such as humanism and technology-oriented spirits. On the next step, if I suggest results of research for founders and presidents related to the succession of management rights in the Toyota Motor and Honda Motor, it is as follows. Six persons of eleven presidents were a founder and his families in the Toyota Motor, but only one person of seven presidents was a founder in the Honda Motor. The founder and his families accounted about fifty-seven percent of total period holding president post in the Toyota, but accounted about forty-one percent of total holding president post in the Honda. Four persons of eleven presidents are engineers and technicians in the Toyota, but all persons of seven presidents are engineers and technicians in the Honda. In the average age of presidents at time when he have taken his post, that of Toyota was 58.7 years old, but that of Honda was 53.5 years old. In the average age of presidents at time when he have retired his post, that of Toyota was 66.3 years old, but that of Honda was 60.4 years old. In the average holding period of their post, that of Toyota was 6.9 years, but that of Honda was 7.2 years. By all mentioned above, I can express it the following words. From the viewpoint of successor, Toyota Motor has patterns of mixed succession included the blood relation and manager-oriented succession. Honda Motor has patterns of inside member succession and technician-oriented succession.