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Visions of innovation : the firm and Japan / Martin Fransman.
Oxford Scholarship Online: Economics and Finance Available online
Oxford Scholarship Online: Economics and Finance- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fransman, Martin.
- Series:
- Japan Business and Economics Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computer industry--Technological innovations--Japan.
- Organizational change--Japan.
- Technological innovations--Japan--Management.
- Telecommunication--Technological innovations--Japan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (283 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Computers, telecommunications equipment, semiconductorsthe products and technologies of the information and communications industry (IC)have transformed our world. Most of these products were initially developed in Western countries, but by the early 1990s some of the world's largest companies in the field were Japanese. This book explains the resurgence of Japan's IC giants, their global status, and their strengths and weaknesses.Empirical scrutiny of their evolution iscomplemented by the author's own theory of the most appropriate mehtod for studying the dynamics of industrial change. The au
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Introduction; 1. Visions of the Firm: A Critical Survey of Leading Approaches to the Firm; 2. A Vision of the Firm and the Evolution of Japanese Computer and Communications Firms; 3. AT&T, BT, and NTT: A Comparison of Vision, Strategy, Competence, Path-Dependency, and R&D; 4. Visions of Corporate Organisation: From the Multidivisional to the Segmented Form of Organisation in AT&T, IBM, and NEC; 5. A Vision of the Japanese Innovation System and How It Works; 6. Is National Technology Policy Obsolete in a Globalised World? The Japanese Vision
- 7. Visions of Future Technologies: Government, Globalisation, and Universities in Japanes Biotechnology with Shoko TanakaReferences; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-261) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-98954-1
- 0-19-152178-7
- 9786611989545
- OCLC:
- 317286179
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