Recovering from Success

Innovation and Technology Management in Japan
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-929731-3
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 666 g

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whittaker, D. Hugh

Cole, Robert E.

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Literatur für Manager
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsmathematik und -statistik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Robert E. Cole and D. Hugh Whittaker: Introduction

- Part 1: Industries, Technologies and Value Chains

- 2: Robert E. Cole: The Telecommunication Industry: A Turnaround in Japan's Global Presence

- 3: Timothy Sturgeon: Modular Production's Impact on Japan's Electronics Industry

- 4: Takashi Yunogami: Technology Management and Competitiveness of the Japanese Semiconductor Industry

- 5: Jocelyn Probert: Global Value Chains in the Pharmaceutical Industry

- 6: Robert E. Cole: Software's Hidden Challenges

- Part 2: MOT In and Between Enterprises

- 7: Henry Chesbrough: The Open Innovation Model: Implications for Innovation in Japan

- 8: Clair Brown: Managing Creativity and Control of Knowledge Workers

- 9: Eiichi Yamaguchi: Rethinking Innovation

- 10: Philippe Byosiere: Realizing Creative Innovation Through RandD in Japan

- 11: D. Hugh Whittaker: Hitachi's Nascent 'New Production(ist)' System

- 12: James Lincoln: Interfirm Networks and the Management of Technology and Innovation in Japan

- Part 3: Transforming Japan's Innovation System

- 13: Tateo Arimoto: Innovation Policy for Japan as a Front Runner

- 14: Yuzo Murayama: Security and Techno-Systems: A Comparative Analysis

- 15: Atsushi Kaneko, Yoshi-fumi Nakata and Muneaki Yokoyama: Human Resources and Technology Management in Japanese Corporations

- 16: Toshiro Kita: Electronic Government in Japan: Towards Harmony Between Technology Solutions and Administrative Systems

- 17: D. Hugh Whittaker, Robert E. Cole: Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Robert E. Cole served as Co-Director of the Management of Technology Program at the Haas School of Business from 1997-2006. He is a long term student of Japanese work organization, the auto industry and the Japanese quality movement and has published widely on these topics over the last 35 years. Most recently, he has been working in the hitech arena. Prior to moving to UC Berkeley in 1991, he was Professor of Sociology and Business Administration at the University of Michigan for 24 years.

D. Hugh Whittaker gained his Ph.D from Imperial College, London, and taught at Cambridge University for twelve years before moving to Doshisha University in 2002 as a founding faculty member of Doshisha Business School. He helped to establish and is currently director of the Institute for Technology, Enterprise and Competitiveness (ITEC) at Doshisha University, designated a Centre of Excellence by Japan's Ministry of Education in 2003. He is author of numerous books and articles on Japanese and comparative industry and management, including Small Firms in the Japanese Economy (Cambridge University Press, 1997), and with T. Inagami, The New Community Firm: Employment, Governance and Management Reform in Japan (Cambridge University Press, 2005).