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TEAR Corporation is the innovative funeral service company in Nagoya. In this paper, we try to make clear what is the difference of TEAR’s business compared with already established funeral businesses.
TEAR didn’t innovate funeral services, but TEAR has innovated the business system of funeral service business. By viewing transactions of goods (services), capital, labor, and information, we make clear the difference of business system of TEAR compared with already established funeral service businesses.
In the emergence of entrepreneurs and innovations, and the rate of acceptance and diffusion of innovations, there are many regional differences. In the region where innovations frequently emerge, innovations are promptly accepted and diffused, but few entrepreneurs appear, few innovations emerge, and innovations are hard to be accepted and diffused in most
regions in the present Japan.
In this paper, we suggest the possibility of the business system innovation in the region where innovations had been hard to be accepted and diffused after considering the case of TEAR`s innovation.