@inproceedings{oai:kutarr.kochi-tech.ac.jp:00001215,
 author = {IGATA, Motohiko and KATSURA, Shintaro},
 book = {Society for Social Management Systems Internet Journal},
 month = {Dec},
 note = {Stagnation of regional economies is caused by a decline in primary industry, which is vital
for rural areas economies. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s bid to participate in the Trans-Pacific Partnership
(TPP) has the potential to reshape Japan’s agricultural sector so that it can compete on an international
level. This paper outlines an analytical framework aimed at solving the problems that local agricultural
business face and the effectiveness of the analytical framework. The framework consists of two
engineering approaches, called Conceptual Data Modeling (CDM) and Quality Function Deployment
(QFD), and a business administration approach called Balanced Scorecard (BSC). The research is based on
studies on industrial clusters, regional vitalizations and systems approaches. In CDM, the domain identity
and mission of the target business is defined according to D.F. Abell's "Defining the Business" theory in
which management is rendered visible as static and dynamic models. Furthermore, we examine whether
formation of industrial clusters with agricultural businesses as their core is rendered visible using these
approaches. BSC is an approach advocated by Kaplan and Norton and we examine that the skeleton of
BSC strategy map can be extracted from CDM. QFD is a design approach proposed by Akao and Mizuno
that aims at quality assurance from the design phase of a product. We apply QFD to a completely different
field from the original field. This concept makes it possible to define a concrete strategy from reasonable
and objective viewpoints by transposing the decision maker's subjectivity to numerical values. Our
proposed framework makes suggestions for research into local business activation and may be applicable
not only for agricultural business but for any type of business. We would like to repeat the hypothesis
testing and promote this local business model.},
 publisher = {Society for Social Management Systems},
 title = {APPLICABILITY OF ENGINEERING AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION APPROACHES FOR THE ACTIVATION OF LOCAL BUSINESS},
 volume = {9},
 year = {2014}
}