Managing Innovation in Japan The Role Institutions Play in Helping or Hindering how Companies Develop Technology /

• Main Author: Watanabe, Chihiro (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Computers and civilization.; Economic policy.; Economics.; R & D/Technology Policy.; Computers and Society.; IT in Business.

Why do some country’s hi-tech firms innovate better than others? Why did hi-tech firms from the United States outperform such Japanese companies in the 1990s? Through a wealth of empirical evidence, the book compares the development trajectory of manufacturing technology and information technology b...

Table of Contents:

• Formation of IT Features through Interaction with Institutional Systems: Empirical Evidence of Unique Epidemic Behavior
• Institutional Elasticity as a Significant Driver of IT Functionality Development
• A Substitution Orbit Model of Competitive Innovations
• Impacts of Functionality Development on Dynamism between Learning and Diffusion of Technology
• Diffusion, Substitution and Competition Dynamism Inside the ICT Market: A Case of Japan
• The Co-evolution Process of Technological Innovation: An Empirical Study of Mobile Phone Vendors and Telecommunication Service Operators in Japan
• Technopreneurial Trajectory Leading to Bipolarization of Entrepreneurial Contour in Japan’s Leading Firm
• Technological Diversification Strategic Trajectory Leading to an Effective Utilization of Potential Resources in Innovation: A Case of Canon
• Japan’s Coevolutionary Dynamism between Innovation and Institutional Systems: Hybrid Management Fusing East and West
• Conclusion.