The Dynamism of Business Transformation

Digitization of Photography and Photo Printing Business
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-981-9224-47-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 361 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

This book uncovers the dynamics behind the transformation of an industry threatened by disruptive innovation. In contrast to existing research that focuses on the disruptive aspects of innovation, this book is unique in the following two aspects: It focuses on incumbent firms whose position would be undermined by new entrants; and it captures the process and causal link of the entire change of an industry as a synthesized result of multiple entities’ action. To reveal the nature of the dynamism of the industry's self-renewal, which cannot be fully captured by simplistic models, the book makes full use of historical process analysis, drawing on a variety of sources and in-depth interviews.

Through this analysis, the reader can understand the threats of innovation that the Japanese photographic printing industry faced and how it responded to those threats and paved the way for its survival. Hints are provided for companies and their employees to think deeply about how they should deal with innovation — a double-edged sword that can bring success, but one that also may be feared because it can kill the business of those companies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kodama, Koichiro

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Forschung & Entwicklung (F&E), Innovation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Strategisches Management
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I. Preparation of the Case Study.- Chapter 1 Problem Formulation.- Chapter 2 Photoshops and Digitization of Photography.- Part II. The Photoshop Industry's Response to the Digitization of Photography.- Chapter 3 Impact of Digitization of Photography on the Laboratory Industry.- Chapter 4 Customer’s Behavioral Habits and Timing of Reaction against Technological Change.- Part III. Emergence of Digital Mini-labs.- Chapter 5 Development of the Digital Mini-lab "Frontier" ?: From Conception to Prototype Development.- Chapter 6 Development of Digital Minilab "Frontier" ?: From Commercialization to Market Deployment.- Part IV. Diffusion of Digital Mini-labs.- Chapter 7 Perspectives on the Diffusion of Digital Mini-labs.- Chapter 8 Entrepreneurial Activity and the Discovery of “Solutions” by Kitamura.- Chapter 9 Spreading the Use of Digital Mini-labs throughout the Photoshop Industry.- Chapter 10 Competition over New Businesses.- Part V. Summary of Discussion.- Chapter 11 The Emergent Structure of Transformation from the Macro Perspective: Focusing on Coincidence.- Chapter 12 The Challenges of People in Photo-printing Industry.- Supplementary Discussion.- Appendix (A) Research Methodology.- Appendix (B) Contributors to the Interviews.- List of References.

Über Autor(innen)

Koichiro Kodama , a professor at Nihon University Department of Economics, obtained his Ph.D in Commerce from Hitotsubashi Univercity. His teaching and research activities focus on strategic reform of stagnant firms, and he is the author of a number of articles on entrepreneurship and strategic change of Japanese firms, including Management Revolution at Matsushita Electric Industrial (co-authored, winner of the Forum of Entrepreneurial Study Award) and “The Adaptation Process to Technological Change,”Organizational Science (winner of the Takamiya Award of the Academic Association for Organization Science, Japan).

In addition to above articles, original version of this book published in Japan has won numerous awards including Takamiya Award of the Academic Association for Organizational Science, Japan Academy of Business Administration Award, Awards for studies for Small Business, and Forum of Entrepreneurial Study Award, all of which are the most authoritative awards in the field of management science in Japan.

His current research focus on how firms obtain new resources and transfer professional knowledge when they develop new R&D facilities abroad. And he also translated and published the Japanese version of Build, Borrow, or Buy: Solving the Growth Dilemma, written by Laurence Capron and Will Mitchell.