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Engineered in Japan : Japanese technology-management practices / editors, Jeffrey K. Liker, John E. Ettlie, and John C. Campbell.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1995Description: xii, 404 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0195095553
  • 9780195095555
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 607.273 20
LOC classification:
  • T177.J3 E64 1995
Contents:
Contributors -- 1. Engineered in Japan: Introduction and Overview -- 2. Basic Research in Japanese Electronic Companies: An Attempt at Establishing New Organizational Routines -- 3. The Growth of R&D Investment and Organizational Changes by Japanese Pharmaceutical Firms, 1975-1993 -- 4. Governance Structure and Technology Transfer Management in R&D Consortia in the United States and Japan -- 5. Governing United States - Japan High-Technology Alliances -- 6. Nippondenso Co. Ltd.: A Case Study of Strategic Product Design -- 7. Integrating Suppliers into Fast-Cycle Product Development -- 8. Toyota, Concurrent Engineering, and Set-Based Design -- 9. Competing in the Old-Fashioned Way: Localizing and Integrating Knowledge Resources in Fast-to-Market Competition -- 10. Producing a World-Class Automotive Body -- 11. Japan's Development of Scheduling Methods for Manufacturing Semiconductors -- 12. U.S.-Japanese Manufacturing Joint Ventures and Equity Relationships -- 13. Culture, Innovative Borrowing, and Technology Management -- 14. Does Culture Matter? Negotiating a Complementary Culture to Support Technological Innovation -- 15. Institutional Pressures and Organizational Learning: The Case of American-Owned Automotive-Parts Suppliers and Japanese Shop-Floor Production Methods -- 16. Reflections on Organizational Learning in U.S. and Japanese Industry -- 17. Managing Technology Systemically: Common Themes -- Index.
Summary: Engineered in Japan: Japanese Technology-Management Practices presents a unique and comprehensive examination of technology management in the most successful Japanese companies. Each chapter is based on original research by noted scholars in the field, and identifies technology management practices that have become a major source of competitive advantage for highly successful Japanese companies. Engineered in Japan documents the best practices from such companies as Toyota, Hitachi, Toshiba, and Nippondenso, and discusses how these technology management practices can be usefully adopted in other cultural contexts.Summary: "U.S. managers can perhaps learn more from the process of creation in Japan and the organizational structures that support innovation," say the editors in their introduction, "than from the particular approaches, tools, and technologies created." A running theme throughout the book is that Japanese managers and engineers tend to think in terms of systems, focusing not just on the parts but on the connections between them. Engineered in Japan is must reading for technology managers and engineers, along with anyone interested in Japanese business, engineering, and management.
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"Japan business and economics series"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributors -- 1. Engineered in Japan: Introduction and Overview -- 2. Basic Research in Japanese Electronic Companies: An Attempt at Establishing New Organizational Routines -- 3. The Growth of R&D Investment and Organizational Changes by Japanese Pharmaceutical Firms, 1975-1993 -- 4. Governance Structure and Technology Transfer Management in R&D Consortia in the United States and Japan -- 5. Governing United States - Japan High-Technology Alliances -- 6. Nippondenso Co. Ltd.: A Case Study of Strategic Product Design -- 7. Integrating Suppliers into Fast-Cycle Product Development -- 8. Toyota, Concurrent Engineering, and Set-Based Design -- 9. Competing in the Old-Fashioned Way: Localizing and Integrating Knowledge Resources in Fast-to-Market Competition -- 10. Producing a World-Class Automotive Body -- 11. Japan's Development of Scheduling Methods for Manufacturing Semiconductors -- 12. U.S.-Japanese Manufacturing Joint Ventures and Equity Relationships -- 13. Culture, Innovative Borrowing, and Technology Management -- 14. Does Culture Matter? Negotiating a Complementary Culture to Support Technological Innovation -- 15. Institutional Pressures and Organizational Learning: The Case of American-Owned Automotive-Parts Suppliers and Japanese Shop-Floor Production Methods -- 16. Reflections on Organizational Learning in U.S. and Japanese Industry -- 17. Managing Technology Systemically: Common Themes -- Index.

Engineered in Japan: Japanese Technology-Management Practices presents a unique and comprehensive examination of technology management in the most successful Japanese companies. Each chapter is based on original research by noted scholars in the field, and identifies technology management practices that have become a major source of competitive advantage for highly successful Japanese companies. Engineered in Japan documents the best practices from such companies as Toyota, Hitachi, Toshiba, and Nippondenso, and discusses how these technology management practices can be usefully adopted in other cultural contexts.

"U.S. managers can perhaps learn more from the process of creation in Japan and the organizational structures that support innovation," say the editors in their introduction, "than from the particular approaches, tools, and technologies created." A running theme throughout the book is that Japanese managers and engineers tend to think in terms of systems, focusing not just on the parts but on the connections between them. Engineered in Japan is must reading for technology managers and engineers, along with anyone interested in Japanese business, engineering, and management.

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