Visions of Innovation : the Firm and Japan.

Visions of Innovation : the Firm and Japan.

This book contains a concise critical survey of economic theories of the firm leading into an exposition of how real firms function in the real world when knowledge cannot be complete or unambiguous. It explores how a firm's decision-makers process information to construct a vision as a basis f...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Scholarship Online 1999.
Series:Oxford scholarship online.
Oxford scholarship online. Economics and Finance module.
Subjects:
Decision making > Japan.
Technological innovations > Japan.
Organizational change > Japan.
Decision making
Organizational change
Technological innovations
Japan
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction; 1. Visions of the Firm: A Critical Survey of Leading Approaches to the Firm; 2. A Vision of the Firm and the Evolution of Japanese Computer and Communications Firms; 3. AT&T, BT, and NTT: A Comparison of Vision, Strategy, Competence, Path-Dependency, and R 4. Visions of Corporate Organisation: From the Multidivisional to the Segmented Form of Organisation in AT&T, IBM, and NEC; 5. A Vision of the Japanese Innovation System and How It Works; 6. Is National Technology Policy Obsolete in a Globalised World? The Japanese Vision
  • 7. Visions of Future Technologies: Government, Globalisation, and Universities in Japanes Biotechnology with Shoko TanakaReferences; Index

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