Struggles for Survival Institutional and Organizational Changes in Japan’s High-Tech Industries /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Okada, Yoshitaka (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Tokyo : Springer Japan, 2006.
• Subjects: Political science.; Economic policy.; Sociology.; Economics.; Economic Policy.; Political Science.; Sociology, general.

How did Japanese companies, technology-supporting organizations, and governments reformulate organizational strategies, industrial structures, and institutions to revive Japanese high-tech industries (semiconductor, telecommunications, and biotechnology) in the 1990s? This book takes a comprehensive...

Table of Contents:

• Institutions, Organizations, and Techno-Governance for Innovation
• Decline of the Japanese Semiconductor Industry: Institutional Restrictions and the Disintegration of Techno-Governance
• Institutional Changes and Corporate Strategies for Survival in the Japanese Semiconductor Industry
• Institutional, Technological, and Strategic Factors in the Global Integrated-Circuit Industry: The Persistence of Organizational Forms
• Industrial Environment, Institutional Changes, and Technological Innovations in the Japanese Telecommunications Industry
• Transition in Japan’s Biotechnology Sector: Institutional Organizational Co-Evolution
• Conclusion.