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2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

End of Japan? Competitiveness of Japanese Firms and Industries and their Challenges for Revival

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15203018
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Business administration
Research InstitutionHitotsubashi 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
KeywordsJapan'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)

All 2006 2005 2004 2003

All Journal Article (35 results)

  • [Journal Article] イノベーションの制度基盤:創薬と審査制度を題材に2006

    • Author(s)
      米倉誠一郎, 鈴木修
    • Journal Title

      経済志林 73巻4号

      Pages: 381-406

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Increasing Complexity and Limits of Organization in the Microlithography Industry : Implications for Science-based Industries2006

    • Author(s)
      Chuma, Hiroyuki
    • Journal Title

      Research Policy (Elsevier, Hollands) Vol.35, No.3

      Pages: 394-411

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] How Do the Speed, Science Linkage, Focus and New Entry Matter in IT Inventions?2006

    • Author(s)
      Nagaoka, Sadao
    • Journal Title

      Economic and Management Perspectiveson Intellectual Property Rights, (Peeters, Carine, and Bruno Van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie (eds.))(Palarave)

      Pages: 171-198

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [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] Mobile Phone Industry : A Microcosm of Deregulation, Globalization, and Technological Change in the Japanese Economy2006

    • Author(s)
      Funk, Jeffrey L.
    • Journal Title

      Japanese Telecommunications Market and Policy in Transition, (Taplin, Ruth (ed.))(London Routledge)

      Pages: 65-86

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Institutional Setting and Innovation (in Japanese)2006

    • Author(s)
      Yonekura, Seiichiro, Osamu Suzuki
    • Journal Title

      Keizai-Shirin (The Hosei University of Economic Review) Vol.73, No.4

      Pages: 381-406

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Increasing Complexity and Limits of Organization in the Microlithography Industry : Implications for Science-based Industries2006

    • Author(s)
      Chuma, Hiroyuki
    • Journal Title

      Research Policy Vol.35, No.3

      Pages: 394-411

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] How Do the Speed, Science Linkage, Focus and New Entry Matter in IT Inventions?2006

    • Author(s)
      Nagaoka, Sadao
    • Journal Title

      Economic and Management Perspectives on Intellectual Property Rights, Palgrave (in Peeters, Carine, Bruno Van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie (eds.))

      Pages: 171-198

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Thinking through the Lens of Architecture (in Japanese)2006

    • Author(s)
      Aoshima, Yaichi, Akira Takeishi
    • Journal Title

      Readings on the Japanese Firm as a System, Strategy and Innovation (in Itami, Hiroyuki, Takahiro Fujimoto, Tetsuji Okazaki, Hideshi Itoh, Tsuyoshi Namagami (eds.))(Tokyo : Yuhikaku) Vol.3

      Pages: 206-240

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Mobile Phone Industry : A Microcosm of Deregulation, Globalization, and Technological Change in the Japanese Economy2006

    • Author(s)
      Funk, Jeffrey L.
    • Journal Title

      Japanese Telecommunications Market and Policy in Transition (Taplin, Ruth (ed.))(London : Routledge)

      Pages: 65-86

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 我が国半導体露光装置産業が直面する複雑性と組織限界2005

    • Author(s)
      中馬宏之
    • Journal Title

      光学(日本光学会誌) 34巻8号

      Pages: 388-385

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Complexity and Limit of Organization in the Japanese Microlithography Industry (in Japanese)2005

    • Author(s)
      Chuma, Hiroyuki
    • Journal Title

      Kogaku (Japanese Journal of Optics), Optical Society of Japan, An Affiliate of the Japan Society of Applied Physics Vol.34, No.8

      Pages: 388-395

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Semiconductor Production System a la TOYOTA : Pioneering Experiments in UMCJ2004

    • Author(s)
      Chuma, Hiroyuki
    • Journal Title

      Multinational in China : Competition and Cooperation, (Mao, Yunshi, and Min Li (eds.))(The University Press Limited)

      Pages: 30-52

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 日本のサイエンス型産業が直面する複雑性と組織限界:半導体露光装置産業の事例から2004

    • Author(s)
      中馬宏之
    • Journal Title

      一橋ビジネスレビュー 52巻3号

      Pages: 64-85

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] データで振り返る日本企業のパフォーマンスと経営課題2004

    • Author(s)
      軽部大
    • Journal Title

      一橋大学ビジネスレビュー 52巻3号

      Pages: 24-35

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] ネットセントリック戦略2004

    • Author(s)
      西口敏宏
    • Journal Title

      一橋ビジネスレビュー 52巻1号

      Pages: 48-63

    • 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 Market2004

    • Author(s)
      Funk, Jeffrey L.
    • Journal Title

      E-Merging Media, (Zerdick, Axel, Arnold Picot, Klaus Schrape, Jean-Claude Burgelman, and Roger Silverstone (eds.))(Springer (in German))

      Pages: 103-123

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The Product Life Cycle Theory and Product Line Management : the Case of Mobile Phones2004

    • Author(s)
      Funk, Jeffrey L.
    • Journal Title

      IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management Vol.51, No.2

      Pages: 1-11

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 日本のイノベーション・システム-「全国イノベーション調査」データに見る民間企業全体の現況2004

    • Author(s)
      伊地知寛博
    • Journal Title

      一橋ビジネスレビュー 52巻3号

      Pages: 36-51

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 「失われた10年」に日本の産業競争力は低下したのか?2004

    • Author(s)
      元橋一之
    • Journal Title

      一橋大学ビジネスレビュー 52巻3号

      Pages: 7-23

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Semiconductor Production System ala TOYOTA : Pioneering Experiments in UMCJ2004

    • Author(s)
      Chuma, Hiroyuki
    • Journal Title

      Multinational in China : Competition and Cooperation (Mao, Yunshi, Min Li (eds.))(The University Press Limited)

      Pages: 30-52

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Increasing Complexity and Limit of Organization in the Japanese Science-based Industry : Based on the Case of the Microlithography Industry (in Japanese)2004

    • Author(s)
      Chuma, Hiroyuki
    • Journal Title

      Hitotsubashi Business Review Vol.52, No.3

      Pages: 64-85

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Competitive Performance of Japanese Firms and Management Agenda (in Japanese)2004

    • Author(s)
      Karube, Masaru
    • Journal Title

      Hitotsubashi Business Review Vol.52, No.3

      Pages: 24-35

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Netcentric Strategies (in Japanese)2004

    • Author(s)
      Nishiguchi, Toshihiro
    • Journal Title

      Hitotsubashi Business Review Vol.52, No.1

      Pages: 48-63

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」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
  • [Journal Article] The Product Life Cycle Theory and Product Line Management : The Case of Mobile Phones2004

    • Author(s)
      Funk, Jeffrey L.
    • Journal Title

      IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management Vol.51, No.2

      Pages: 1-11

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Recent Innovation Activity of Private Enterprises in Japan (in Japanese)2004

    • Author(s)
      Ijichi, Tomohiro
    • Journal Title

      Hitotsubashi Business Review Vol.52, No.3

      Pages: 36-51

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Japan's Long-term Recession in 1990's : Fall of Industrial Competitiveness? (in Japanese)2004

    • Author(s)
      Motohashi, Kazuyuki
    • Journal Title

      Hitotsubashi Business Review Vol.52, No.3

      Pages: 7-23

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Determinants of the Shadow Value of Simultaneous Information Sharing in the Japanese Machine-tool Manufacturing Industry2003

    • Author(s)
      Chuma, Hiroyuki
    • Journal Title

      Labor Markets and Finn Benefit Policies in Japan and the United States, (Ogura, Seiritsu, Toshiaki Tachibanaki, and David A.Wise (eds.))(University of Chicago Press)

      Pages: 81-102

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 合併,企業分割の企業成長効果の分析2003

    • Author(s)
      長岡貞男
    • Journal Title

      経済統計研究 31巻4号

      Pages: 55-63

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Modularization in the Car Industry : Interlinked Multiple Hierarchies of Product, Production, and Supplier Systems2003

    • Author(s)
      Takeishi, Akira, Takahiro Fujimoto
    • Journal Title

      The Business of System Integration, (Prencipe, Andrea, Andrew Davis, and Michael Hobday (eds.))(Oxford University Press)

      Pages: 254-278

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Standards, Dominant Designs and Preferential Acquisition of Complementary Assets Through Slight Information Advantages2003

    • Author(s)
      Funk, Jeffrey L.
    • Journal Title

      Research Policy Vol.32, No.8

      Pages: 1325-1341

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Determinants of the Shadow Value of Simultaneous Information Sharing in the Japanese Machine-tool Manufacturing Industry2003

    • Author(s)
      Chuma, Hiroyuki
    • Journal Title

      Labor Markets and Firm Benefits Policies in Japan and the United States (in Ogura, Seiritsu, Toshiaki Tacchibanaki, David A.Wise (eds.))(University of Chicago Press)

      Pages: 81-102

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Analysis of the Growth Effects of Corporate Mergers and Divisions2003

    • Author(s)
      Nagaoka, Sadao
    • Journal Title

      Keizai Tokei Kenkyu, Economy, Trade and Industry Statistics Association Vol.31, No.4

      Pages: 55-63

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Modularization in the Car Industry : Interlinked Multiple Hierarchies of Product, Production, and Supplier Systems2003

    • Author(s)
      Takeishi, Akira, Takahiro Fujimoto
    • Journal Title

      The Business of System Integration (in Prencipe, Andrea, Andrew Davis, Michael Hobday (eds.))(Oxford University Press)

      Pages: 254-278

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より

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Published: 2007-12-13  

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