Industrial Innovation in Japan

In this new book, Hara, Kambayashi and Matsushima gather together a collection of case studies of innovation in various industries in modern Japan, including automobile, electronics, semiconductor, component, chemical, pharmaceutical and service industries. Unlike other books in this area, this book focuses on a broader range of Japanese industries from the post world war era to the modern day and considers the relationships between the characteristics of innovation and the features of Japanese society. These chapters demonstrate Japan's shift from being product-oriented and domestic to being business system-oriented and global. Meanwhile the process of innovation in Japan continues to include the tendency of eliminating uncertainty through intimate in-process interaction between different functions, rather than through preset rule or contracts. This book goes some way in challenging accepted notions of Japanese innovation, emphasising new and diverse trends and practises.

ISBN 0415423384   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780415423380 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 544 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd   Published in London Imprint Routledge   Series ISSN 07 Format Hardback   Series title Routledge Studies in Innovation, Organizations and Technology Publication date 31 Mar 2008   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress 2007035782   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 338.0640952   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly Pages 272

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1		Introduction by Takuji Hara and Noboru Matsushima and Norio Kambayashi		1
2		The social shaping of technological paths: antibiotics in Japan by Takuji Hara		16
3		Institutional changes and the emergence of electronic transactions in the Japanese manufacturing industry: beyond the dichotomy of technical efficiency and social legitimacy in institutions by Noboru Matsushima and Mitsuhiro Urano and Takuya Miyamoto		38
4		Technological innovation induced by tacit scientific knowledge: research and development in the Mirai semiconductor project by Yuji Horikawa		69
5		Development of the carbon fiber business in Toray by Katsuo Toma		82
6		Reorganizing mature industry through technological innovation: de-maturity in watchmaking industry by Junjiro Shintaku and Kotaro Kuwada		101
7		Innovation impacts on the digital device industry by Munehiko Itoh		118
8		New product development beyond internal projects: a case of joint new product development by Shinichi Ishii		137
9		Application of Japanese production methods to the service sector by Takashi Matsuo		157
10		Emerging competitive value in use with materiality: the negotiated transformation of business systems with regard to the online securities market in Japan by Kosuke Mizukoshi and Noboru Matsushima		174
11		Analysis of the innovation process created through the management of business incubators in the Japanese content industry by Misanori Takahashi		192
12		Industrial innovation under the influence of Japanese culture by Norio Kambayashi		209
		Bibliography		232
		Index		245

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