Watanabe Managing Innovation in Japan

The Role Institutions Play in Helping or Hindering how Companies Develop Technology
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-540-89272-4
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 247 Seiten

This book summarizes highlights of the investigation of 'An Elucidation of the Role of Institutional Systems in Characterizing Technology Development Trajectories - A Global Comparative Analysis of Manufacturing Technology and Information Te- nology in the Enhancement of Business Practice' supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scienti?c Research (S) by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology/Japan Society for Science Policy over the period 2002-2006. Background and objectives of the investigation are summarized as follows: (a) Japan ranks far below the level of the USA with respect to the development and utilization of information technology (IT) in the information society that emerged in the 1990s. (b) This can be attributed toa vicious cycle between Japan's non-elastic institutions, insuf?cient utilization of the potential bene?ts of IT, and economic stagnation. (c) The source of such a vicious cycle can be derived from the fundamental d- ferences of the characterizing process of technology between manufacturing technology (MT) and IT during their diffusion processes. This investigation - tempted to elucidate this mechanism. Noteworthy ?ndings obtained include: (a) MT has been developed largely by the supply side and its functionality is - tablished during the stage of its supply to the market. In contrast, IT is strongly driven by the demand side and its functionality is created through diffusion in a self-propagating way. This contrast can be clearly observed in the dramatic advancement of Japan's mobile phone industry in the late 1990s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watanabe, Chihiro

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Acknowledgements;5
2;Contents;6
3;Chapter 1 Introduction;12
4;Chapter 2 Formation of IT Features Through Interaction with Institutional Systems: Empirical Evidence of Unique Epidemic Behavior;14
4.1;2.1 Introduction;14
4.2;2.2 Features of IT with Respect to Institutions;17
4.3;2.3 Implications;30
4.4;2.4 Conclusion;32
4.5;Appendix 1. Mathematical Development of Logistic Growth FunctionWithin a Dynamic Carrying Capacity;33
4.6;Appendix 2. Data Construction and Sources;35
4.7;Appendix 3. Mathematical Development of SCE;36
5;Chapter 3 Institutional Elasticity as a Significant Driver of IT Functionality Development;42
5.1;3.1 Introduction;42
5.2;3.2 Identification of IT Features with Respect to Institutions;44
5.3;3.3 Implications;60
5.4;3.4 Conclusion;61
5.5;Appendix. Data Construction and Sources;63
5.6;Appendix 1. TFP and IT Intensity;63
5.7;Appendix 2. Epidemic Behavior;63
5.8;References;66
6;Chapter 4 A Substitution Orbit Model of Competitive Innovations;68
6.1;4.1 Introduction;68
6.2;4.2 Substitution Orbit of Competitive Innovations;70
6.3;4.3 Lotka–Volterra Equations for Predator–Prey Systems;76
6.4;4.4 Orbit for Substitution: Policy Option in a Complex Orbit;84
6.5;4.5 Conclusion;89
6.6;References;90
7;Chapter 5 Impacts of Functionality Development on Dynamism Between Learning and Diffusion of Technology;92
7.1;5.1 Introduction;92
7.2;5.2 Dynamic Behavior of Learning Coefficient;94
7.3;5.3 Learning and Diffusion of Technology;99
7.4;5.4 Institutional Dynamism Leading to a Dynamic Interaction Between Learning, Diffusion and Spillover of Technology;107
7.5;References;113
8;Chapter 6 Diffusion, Substitution and Competition Dynamism Inside the ICT Market: A Case of Japan;114
8.1;6.1 Introduction;115
8.2;6.2 Methodology;118
8.3;6.3 Diffusion and Substitution Process of ICT in Japan: Empirical Analysis with Diffusion and Substitution Models;122
8.4;6.4 Conclusion;139
8.5;References;144
9;Chapter 7 The Co-Evolution Process of Technological Innovation: An Empirical Study of Mobile Phone Vendors and Telecommunication Service Operators in Japan;146
9.1;7.1 Introduction;147
9.2;7.2 A Market Dominated by High-End Handsets Due to High Learning Effect;152
9.3;7.3 A Market Dominated by Order-Made Models Due to Close Cooperation Between Vendors and Operators;158
9.4;7.4 A Virtuous Cycle Between Demand and Supply Sides Driving Japan’s Co-Evolutionary Mobile-Driven Innovations and Institutions;164
9.5;7.5 Conclusions;166
9.6;References;168
10;Chapter 8 Technopreneurial Trajectory Leading to Bipolarization of Entrepreneurial Contour in Japan’s Leading Firms;170
10.1;8.1 Introduction;170
10.2;8.2 Co-Evolutionary Dynamism Between Mobile Phone Driven Innovation and Institutional Systems: Cumulative Learning;172
10.3;8.3 Transformation in Entrepreneurial Contour in Leading Firms Facing the Transition to a Post Information Society:;181
10.4;8.4 Conclusion;187
10.5;References;188
11;Chapter 9 Technological Diversification: Strategic Trajectory Leading to an Effective Utilization of Potential Resources in Innovation: A Case of Canon;189
11.1;9.1 Introduction;189
11.2;9.2 R&D Diversification and Assimilation of Spillover Technology;191
12;Chapter 10 Japan’s Coevolutionary Dynamism Between Innovation and Institutional Systems: Hybrid Management Fusing East and West;220
12.1;10.1 Introduction;220
12.2;10.2 Japan’s Indigenous Explicit Function;221
12.3;10.3 Lost Decade and Reactivation;225
12.4;10.4 Hybrid Management: Fuses East and West;230
12.5;10.5 Canon’s Success in Hybrid Management;233
12.6;10.6 Conclusion;237
12.7;References;239
13;Chapter 11 Conclusion;241
13.1;11.1 Formation of IT Features Through Interaction with Institutional Systems: Empirical Evidence;241
13.2;11.2 Institutional Elasticity as a Significant Driver of IT Functionality Development;242
13.3;11.3 A Substitution Orbit Model of Competitive Innovations;243
13.4;11.4 Impacts of Functionality Development on Dynamism Between Learning and Diffusion of Technology;244
13.5;11.5 Diffusion, Substitution and Competition Dynamism Inside the ICT Market: A Case of Japan;246
13.6;11.6 The Co-evolution Process of Technological Innovation:;250
13.7;11.7 Technopreneurial Trajectory Leading to Bipolarization of Entrepreneurial Contour in Japan’s Leading Firms;252
13.8;11.8 Technological Diversification: Strategic Trajectory Leading to an Effective Utilization of Potential Resources in Innovation: A Case of Canon;253
13.9;11.9 Japan’s Co-evolutionary Dynamism Between Innovation and Institutional Systems: Hybrid Management;254