A Study of Requirements for Creative City Development with Resource-Based View –The Kobe City Case

• Main Authors: OKAMOTO YUSUKE, 岡本勇介
• Other Authors: DONG, TSE-PING
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/18916256167784446002

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 管理研究所 === 101 === Many nations have put their focus on intangible assets and resource attractions when defining what their national competitive advantage is. In 2004, riding this current trend, UNESCO founded the Creative Cities Network to maintain cultural diversity. In October 2008, Japan's Kobe city was appointed to the Creative Cities Network as a City of Design. On January 17th 1995, an earthquake occurred in the southern part of Kobe's Hyogo prefecture. The Kobe earthquake caused a significant number of houses to collapse, but Kobe city overcome these difficulties and in October 2008, was appointed to the Creative Cities Network of Design. It is exactly of this resilience shown by the city of Kobe that the research presented in this thesis focuses on Kobe as an example of how a creative city develops. The research introduces “literature review analisis”, “case study” to conduct analysis. The focus of the literature review is on understanding the background, geography, cultural facilities, landscape and other related information regarding Kobe city. Resource Basement View Theory and Creative City Theory are utilized here to define what factors make up a Creative City. Resource Basement View Theory is also used to investigate the city's internal resources, core capabilities, any competitive advantages as well as competitive strategies. Finally, all the results were integrated to derive four findings: first, The research finds that internal resorces in Kobe city achives five terms that Creative City need; second, Kobe’s core competencies is an attractive power that various internal resorces in Kobe city attracts many tourists; 3rd, Kobe’s competitive advantage is high quality of life that internal resource in Kobe city forms; fourth Competitive strategy is the Creative Cities Network as a City of Design.