Managing Innovation in Japan : The Role Institutions Play in Helping or Hindering how Companies Develop Technology

Through a wealth of empirical evidence, this book compares the development trajectory of manufacturing technology and information technology between Japanese companies as well as between companies based in the US, Europe, Australia, India and China.

Formation of IT Features through Interaction with Institutional Systems: Empirical Evidence of Unique Epidemic Behavior.- Institutional Elasticity as a Significant Driver of IT Functionality Development.- A Substitution Orbit Model of Competitive Innovations.- Impacts of Functionality Development on Dynamism between Learning and Diffusion of Technology.- Diffusion, Substitution and Competition Dynamism Inside the ICT Market: A Case of Japan.- The Co-evolution Process of Technological Innovation: An Empirical Study of Mobile Phone Vendors and Telecommunication Service Operators in Japan.- Technopreneurial Trajectory Leading to Bipolarization of Entrepreneurial Contour in Japan''s Leading Firm.- Technological Diversification Strategic Trajectory Leading to an Effective Utilization of Potential Resources in Innovation: A Case of Canon.- Japan''s Coevolutionary Dynamism between Innovation and Institutional Systems: Hybrid Management Fusing East and West.- Conclusion.