Cooperation, Technology, And Japanese Development : Indigenous Knowledge, The Power Of Networks, And The State

ISBN-13: 9780813337371 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 247 str.

Donna L. Doane; Donna L. Doane

Opis

Japan is an example of what is known as a latecomer in industrial development. Drawing on case studies of computer and telecommunications and related firms, Donna Doane investigates how intra- and inter-industry cooperation between public and private enterprises pushed rapid technological advancement in Japan. The book places such interlinkage in the context of a historical evolution, starting with prewar industrial house groupings that helped link indigenous and external ideas and form an integrated technological base.Doane focuses mainly on the postwar, catch-up period from the 1960s through the 1980s in which three characteristics associated with late development are examined: multistructured industry, family-based industrial networks, and a distinct government-industry relationship. Implications of the cooperative structure are drawn for other advanced industrial as well as developing countries, where flexible technological networks could help individual enterprises overcome the limitations of isolated organization to survive rapid economic changes."

Spis treści

Preface -- The Background of Inter-Enterprise Cooperative Ties in Japan -- The Use of Inter-Enterprise Ties in the Development of the Computer and Telecommunications Industry in Japan -- Cooperation Between Firms in the Same Industry: Case Studies Involving Applied Research -- Cooperation Between Firms in the Same Industry: Case Studies Involving Relatively Basic (or “Fundamental”) Research -- Cooperation Between Firms in Different Industries for Purposes of Innovation, and Comparisons with Intra-Industry Research -- Possible Implications for Other Late Developing Countries -- Appendix

O autorze

Donna L Doane