Regional Characteristics and Management Styles of Logging Enterprises in Northern Okayama Prefecture

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  • KOSUGA Yoshitake
    The United Graduate School of Agricultural Sciences, Tottori University
  • ITO Katsuhisa
    Shimane University Faculty of Life and Environmental Science

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  • 岡山県北部における素材生産業者の地域特性とマネジメント戦略
  • オカヤマケン ホクブ ニ オケル ソザイ セイサンギョウシャ ノ チイキ トクセイ ト マネジメント センリャク

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Logging enterprises are divided into two types, namely one is "type of direct selling to processing stages" and another is "type of selling to log auction market as used to be". Such types are depended on the regional forestry structure and production scale of the enterprise. In this study, we investigated the current state of 8 logging enterprises as well as the strategies employed to manage them in northern Okayama. After surveying logging enterprises and log auction markets, we attempted to analyze the data adopting Drucker's management theory and scheme of marketing mix. With Maniwa-Tsuyama sawn-timber production center development around 1975-80, thereby joining the golden age. However, since the 1990s, the sawn-timber production center has been scaled down, timber prices have lost their predominance. The management styles of logging enterprises could be classified into either primary contract-type or subcontract-type. It became apparent that from logging practices to marketing, factors such as inner-regional cooperation which is originated from high-quality-brand sawn-timber production center have a large influence on management styles, distinguished "type of direct selling to processing stages" of other regions.

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