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Transferring innovations from abroad to Japan

Research Project

Project/Area Number 25780232
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Management
Research InstitutionHitotsubashi University

Principal Investigator

EDMAN Jesper  一橋大学, 大学院国際企業戦略研究科, 講師 (20615976)

Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) MAKAREVICH Alex  ESADE, Department of People Management and Organisation, Assistant Professor
Project Period (FY) 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,510,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥810,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
KeywordsInnovation / Globalization / Adoption / Diffusion / Diffusion of innovation / HR Practices / Human resource / Global / Foreign
Outline of Final Research Achievements

I examined how Japanese companies are introducing foreign innovations from abroad. My research points to three main findings. 1) Adoption is quickest among companies with either high or low status; companies that are in the middle are usually late-adopters; 2) innovations that are more similar to existing practices are more likely to be adopted, since they are easier to translate and explain to both customers and employees; 3) a main reason that innovations are not adopted is that they might trigger large-scale organizational changes that generate significant costs. Consequently, the companies that are LEAST affected by the new innovations are those most likely to adopt them, whereas those organizations where the new innovations might generate the biggest change appear least likely to adopt them.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2014 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2013 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (3 results)

All 2014

All Presentation (3 results) (of which Invited: 3 results)

  • [Presentation] Cementing Status: Age and the adoption of non-conformist innovations in the Japanese banking industry2014

    • Author(s)
      Jesper Edman
    • Organizer
      Strategic Management Society
    • Place of Presentation
      Shangri La, Sydney, Australia
    • Year and Date
      2014-12-08
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] The diffusion of non-conformist innovations in Japanese Banking2014

    • Author(s)
      Alex Makarevich
    • Organizer
      European Group of Organization Studies Annual Colloqium
    • Place of Presentation
      Erasumus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands
    • Year and Date
      2014-07-03
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Invited
  • [Presentation] Sanctions, Purposive Actors and Processes of Institutional Change in Japan2014

    • Author(s)
      Jesper Edman
    • Organizer
      Uppsala University, Organization Group Seminar Series
    • Place of Presentation
      Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
    • Year and Date
      2014-06-14
    • Related Report
      2014 Annual Research Report
    • Invited

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Published: 2014-07-25   Modified: 2021-04-07  

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