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2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Transferring innovations from abroad to Japan

Research Project

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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
KeywordsInnovation / Globalization / Adoption / Diffusion
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.

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Published: 2016-06-03   Modified: 2021-04-07  

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