電機産業のコングロマリット化と経営倫理 : ソニー製リチウムイオン電池の品質問題における経営価値観(自由論題)

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The objective of this study is to clarify substantial cause of product quality problem for Sony's lithium ion battery cells manufactured between 2003 and 2006. This study demonstrates Sony's management priority that is not stressed on ethical elements such as social responsibility and humanity but on competitiveness and efficiency caused product quality problem represented by fire accidents of notebook computers. The priority has a background on Sony's drastic change in managerial value which is intensive to shareholder's profitability and deficit operation in electronic appliance business due to Sony's radical conglomeratization started from 1995. Sony actually made intentional postponement of safety investigation for battery cells when the first fire accident happened in 2005. Furthermore, Sony omitted metal particle suction process and electrode sealing process between August 2003 and February 2006. The study proposes Japanese electric firm has to restore its traditional ethical value that guarantee of product quality is the first priority.
日本経営倫理学会の論文
2008-03-31