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1994 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

AN INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON ON ORGANIZATIONAL EXTERNALIZATION : FUJIDENKI,FUJITSU,FANUC AND SIEMENS

Research Project

Project/Area Number 04803010
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Research Field 商学・経営学
Research InstitutionHITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY

Principal Investigator

YONEKURA Seiichiro  HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY,INSTITUTE OF BUSINESS RESEARCH,FACULTY OF COMMERCE,ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, 商学部・附属産業経営研究施設, 助教授 (00158528)

Project Period (FY) 1992 – 1994
KeywordsInternational Comparative Business History / Spin-off / Small and Independent Organization / Multi Divisional Structure / Profit Oriented Strategy / Diversification / High-tech
Research Abstract

When we think Fuji Denki Corporation, the mother company of the computer giant Fujitsu and the robotics pioneer Fanuc, was established as a joint venture between Siemes and Furukawa Kogyo in 1923, we are astonished with the difference in speed and scale of diversifications that Fuji Denki and Siemens did.
Fuji Denki spun off Fujitsu in 1935, and Fujitsu spun off Fanuc in 1972. The main reason for those two companies' success in computer and robotics was that they were small and independent spun-offs. In the field of the high-tech industries where technologies and market needs rapidly change, the organizational structure must be flat and flexible. Adopting a multi-divisional structure, Siemens has been very slow at the growth in the high-tech industries such as computer and robotics.
The main reason was that Siemens tried to develop its computer business as a divisional unit and so that did not give enough independency and responsibilities. Siemens put a strong emphasis on its profit oriented strategy rather than on a growthoriented diversification.

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All Publications (10 results)

  • [Publications] 米倉誠一郎: "経営史学への招待:歴史学は面白い" 一橋論叢. 111. 635-646 (1994)

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  • [Publications] 米倉誠一郎: "政府と企業のダイナミクス:産業政策のソフトな側面" 商学研究. 33. 249-292 (1993)

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  • [Publications] Ryoshin Minami et al.: "Acquiring,Adapting and Developing Technologies:Japan's Lessons from The Japanese Experience" Macmillan, 346 (1995)

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  • [Publications] Takeshi Yuzawa: "Japanese Business Success" Routledge, 236 (1994)

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  • [Publications] Seiichiro Yonekura: "The Japanese Iron and Steel Industry,1850-1990:Continuity and Discontinuity" Macmillan Press, 327 (1994)

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  • [Publications] Seiichiro Yonekura: ""Business History is Fun! ! "" The Hitotsubashi Review. Vol.111. 635-646 (1994)

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  • [Publications] Seiichiro Yonekura: ""Industrial Policy as a Dynamic Interaction between Government and Firms-A Case of the Temporary Measures Law for the Promotion of the Machinery Industry and the Special Tool Industry-" Hitotsubashi University Research Series Commerce & Management. Vol.33. 294-292 (1993)

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  • [Publications] Seiichiro Yonekura: ""Technological Innovation in the Steel Industry : Recognizing Potential in Innovation, "" Acquiring, Adapting and Developing Technologies : Japan's Lessons from The Japanese Experience. 214-248 (1995)

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  • [Publications] Seiichiro Yonekura and Hans-Juergen Clahsen: ""Innovation by externalization : a new organizational strategy for the high-tech industries - Fuji Denki, Fujitsu and Fanuc"" Japanese Business Success. 39-64 (1994)

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  • [Publications] Seiichiro Yonekura: The Japanese Iron and Steel Industry, 1850-1990 : Continuity and Discontinuity. 327 (1994)

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