Global Competitiveness of Japanese Industry and Companies:

• Akashi Yoshihiko

  Osaka City University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 日本産業・企業の国際競争力
• Reconsideration of Technological Innovation and Creation of Value Added
• ―技術イノベーションと付加価値創造―

Abstract

From the analysis of electronic industry in Japan, we found that the amounts of production and trade of electronic consumer appliances and industrial equipment including the mobile phones and computers have shrunk, and the amounts of electronic parts and devices have expanded. The realization of smaller, lighter and thinner parts and parts-materials with high function were implemented through collaborative technological and product development between parts-supply companies and parts-users companies. Though the parts-supply companies that supplied parts to foreign companies as well as Japanese companies got profits, the final products manufacturing companies could not get a profit from the business development of hightech products that they installed highly-functional parts and materials on. There is a dilemma because a company must get a profit to sustain a business and build an adequate business scheme to achieve it.<br>The global competitiveness of each industry is shown as an indicator of the aggregation of product data by each company. The total competitiveness of each company depends on the aggregation of product-based competitiveness of the product markets that the company supplies to. However, the statistics of the competitiveness of an industry in one country differs from the company statistics that include global activities. In a global era, we must check the statistics of global development of the companies to study the concerned industry. But, the statistics comes from the data of main divisions of each company that does business globally. Though the industrial statistics about one country is made by each country data, we can't sometimes grasp the outline of companies' behavior as a whole. It is a challenged agenda for the contemporary industry study.

Journal

• Annals of the Society for Industrial Studies, Japan

  Annals of the Society for Industrial Studies, Japan 2012 (27), 31-42, 2012

  The Society for Industrial Studies, Japan

Details

• CRID: 1390001205323169408
• NII Article ID: 130003373923
• DOI: 10.11444/sisj.2012.31
• ISSN: 18841015
• ISSN: 09187162
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
  • JaLC
  • CiNii Articles
  • KAKEN
• Abstract License Flag: Disallowed