KENJI NAGASATO

In recent years, problems related to chemicals such as endocrine disrupters and dioxin have attracted attention, and the need for chemical substance management among chemical manufacturers has been recognized. Based on a case study, this paper proposes and instance model for the decision-making process in a company where the safety of a product is suspected. It was found that a company's decision-making is based on the requirements of stakeholders, legal regulations, company policy (environmental management) and future prediction (regulations and market trends).

The largest LNG plant in People's Democratic Republic of Algeria was attacked by the terrorists, though its main contractor took preventive actions. In this result, we learned that it is difficult to take a prompt action without preparing fully situated scenarios. In this paper, the authors propose a situation management methodology that assesses possible situations by generating dynamic scenarios based on SWOT (strength, weakness, opportunity, threat) structure.

It is necessary, regardless strategy that depends only on the superiority of their own in the R & D in multinational companies, to build a competitive advantage on a global scale. It means, that will be utilized in the acquisition, exploration and a new source of innovation around the world have become increasingly important. In this paper, based on the case of Japanese multinational company, I would like to discuss about the role of telework in the globalization of R & D. Now you can do remarkable advances in telecommunications technology, knowledge sharing in real time, which is created in the R & D centers around the world. In recent years China has a huge market, or has developed multinational companies such as R & D activity which has attracted much attention, especially in the world. As a result of analysis of R & D unique method in China, where it was teleworking plays an important role has been suggested.

Research and development is essential to an enterprise's growth, and how to manage R&amp D from a global perspective is an important issue faced by multinational companies (MNCs). The mainstream of R&amp D activities in China is said to consist of industry-academy partnerships. This paper introduces the case study of a unique industry-academy R&amp D partnership initiated by an MNC and proposes a new model of industry-academy partnership. Since the case of Company is not a simple industry-academy partnership but has unique characteristics in its methods of selecting and managing R&amp D subcontractors, we have called it an "internship-type industry-academy partnership." As a result of this approach, three traditional missions of the university - education, research, and guidance - are handled by the MNC. We called this "project-based education." Truly, under this approach the MNC contributes to human-resources development on behalf of the Chinese university. In addition, since the MNC also can obtain new knowledge and technologies through utilization and development of superior human resources, this form of industry-academy partnership can be said to have successfully achieved a true win-win relationship. © 2008 PICMET.