2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
End of Japan? Competitiveness of Japanese Firms and Industries and their Challenges for Revival
| Project/Area Number |
15203018
|
|---|
| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
|
| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
|---|
| Section | 一般 |
|---|
| Research Field |
Business administration
|
|---|
| Research Institution | Hitotsubashi University |
|---|
Principal Investigator |
YONEKURA Seiichiro Hitotsubashi University, Institute of Innovation Research, Professor, イノベーション研究センター, 教授 (00158528)
|
|---|
| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
CHUMA Hiroyuki Hitotsubashi University, Institute of Innovation Research, Professor, イノベーション研究センター, 教授 (00179962)
NAGAOKA Sadao Hitotsubashi University, Institute of Innovation Research, Professor, イノベーション研究センター, 教授 (00255952)
TAKEISHI Akira Hitotsubashi University, Institute of Innovation Research, Professor, イノベーション研究センター, 教授 (60303054)
AOSHIMA Yaichi Hitotsubashi University, Institute of Innovation Research, Associate Professor, イノベーション研究センター, 助教授 (70282928)
KARUBE Masaru Hitotsubashi University, Institute of Innovation Research, Associate Professor, イノベーション研究センター, 助教授 (90307372)
|
|---|
| Project Period (FY) |
2003 – 2005
|
| Keywords | Japan's competitiveness / the electronics industry / the automobile industry / growing complexity |
|---|
| Research Abstract |
This research project aims at evaluating the competitiveness of Japan's technology-intensive industries and identifying their challenges for the future. Researchers from the Institute of Innovation Research at Hitotsubashi University and MIT Sloan School of Management have joined the project. The project started in FY2003, and every year we held domestic and international workshops, where we presented individual studies that focused on particular fields or issues, and synthesized these studies to draw an overall picture.
In summary, we have found through individual studies and syntheses that among the two leading industries in Japan, the auto industry has maintained its competitiveness under its stable business system environment, while the electronics (or information and communication technology) industry has been losing its competitiveness. The reasons for the decline of the Japanese electronics industry's competitiveness include managerial inability to deal with growing complexity of technologies and markets, increasing concentration of value-added into small devices, and organizational dysfunction due to excessive diversity and globalization.
We are now in the process of editing a book to summarize our findings and argument to general audience, which is expected to be published in FY2006.
|
Research Products
(35 results)
-
-
-
-
[Journal Article] アーキテクチャという考え方2006
Author(s)
青島矢一, 武石彰
-
Journal Title
リーディングス 日本の企業システム第3巻 戦略とイノベーション(伊丹敬之,藤本隆宏,岡崎哲二,伊藤秀史,沼上幹(編))(有斐閣)
Pages: 206-240
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
[Journal Article] New Technologies, New Customers, and the Disruptive Nature of the Mobile Internet : Evidence from the Japanese Market (in German)2004
Author(s)
Funk, Jeffrey L.
-
Journal Title
E-Merging Media (in Zerdick, Axel, Arnold Picot, Klaus Schrape, Jean-Claude BurgelHitotsubashi Hitotsubashi Routledge, Taplin, an-Claude Burgman, Roger Silverstone (eds.))(Springer)
Pages: 103-123
Description
「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
