TY - BOOK AU - Minetaki,Kazunori AU - Nishimura,Kiyohiko TI - Information technology innovation and the Japanese economy SN - 0804773890 AV - HC465.I55 M56 2010 U1 - 303.48330952 22 PY - 2010///] CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - Stanford Economics and Finance KW - Information technology KW - Japan KW - Industries KW - Technological innovations KW - Economic conditions KW - 1989- N1 - "In association with University of Tokyo Press, Japan and NUS Press, Singapore"; Includes bibliographical references and index; IT innovation in the US : sources of productivity gains and presence of network effects -- IT innovation in Europe : complementarity with knowledge labor -- IT innovation in Japan : IT capital, labor demand, and technological progress -- Theoretical underpinnings : production capacity function and capacity utilization function -- Substitutability of production inputs : IT capital stock and various labor inputs -- The impact of IT advances in Japan : distortions wrought by the new economy -- Productivity in Japan's information services industry : modularization, the mythical man-month, and corporate organizational structures -- Organizational design and IT innovation of Japanese firms : analysis of IT innovation in Japan after 2000 ER -