Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to examine the problems of general graduate school education in rural areas of Japan from the aspect of successor training in family business. In addition to working for their family business or other companies, some successors seek postgraduate education for succession training. However, some of them have to enter general graduate schools since there are not an adequate number of business schools in Japanese rural areas, which can offer education on business inheritance in family business, academic degrees, and human connections. To deal with this problem, general graduate schools have begun to put effort into recurrent education for working adults. However, few studies examined curriculums and educational problems/effects of general graduate schools from the point of successor education. Based on this background, we set a research question, “what are the problems of successor education of general graduate schools in Japanese rural areas?” and conducted a qualitative study for clarifying it. Semi-structured interviews were conducted on four pairs of parent-child (parents were managers of small businesses and children were their successors) and a modified grounded theory approach analysis was conducted on the obtained interview data. The result revealed several problems, including “general graduate schools are not aware of the importance of acquiring tacit knowledge by working for other companies,” “general graduate schools are not aware of a perception gap, which exists between parents and children regarding understanding/expectations of general graduate school education.”
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Nobuo Murakami, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Rihyei Kang, Hosei University, Japan
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Conference: SEACE2023
Stream: Professional Training
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Murakami N., & Kang R. (2023) Qualitative Study on the Problems of Successor Education in General Graduate Schools in Rural Area of Japan – A Perception Gap Between Parents and Children of Family Business ISSN: 2435-5240 The Southeast Asian Conference on Education 2023: Official Conference Proceedings https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-5240.2023.50
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2435-5240.2023.50
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