Learning From Japan Improving Knowledge of Japanese Technology Management Practices (1994) / Chapter Skim
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Introduction: Japanese Technology Management Practices in Context
Introduction: Japanese Technology Management Practices in Context
Pages 7-14
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The emergence and development of this type of business system is grounded in the history of industrialization in Japan and in the efforts of countless Japanese firms to survive and succeed in the midst of that history. In a highly competitive, global economy, the Japanese business system of interorganizational management that unites factory, firm, and interfirm networks in cooperative yet competitive ways may be seen as an organizational alternative to Western forms of corporate-capitalist endeavor.
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In effect, industry and technology management practices must be seen as elements of the total Japanese economic system, which includes not only the business system of factories, corporations, and interfirm networks, and the various social and economic relationships noted above, but also accepted models of corporate governance and established modes of corporate growth, merger, and acquisition. Although aspects of the business system may be studied in isolation and even transferred overseas, parts of a larger economic system are likely to be misunderstood out of context.
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U.S. universities and companies do well with the earlier part of this development stream; the fact that Japanese companies excel at the downstream part is the major reason for studying and teaching Japanese industry and technology management practices.
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laboratories invent a remarkable diversity of new technologies, many of these do not achieve market success for the company that developed them. This situation may be due to an internal focus on technology development that puts a premium on inventing one's own solutions instead of having a systematic process for reviewing, on a continuous basis, all technologies that could be used in the specific situation.
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understanding of Japanese management practices, as well as of the organizational, cultural, historic, and economic factors that create the environment for Japanese success. By conducting well-structured
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The committee's argument for creating an academic specialization is based on the need to ensure that J/TIM is not just an engineering or business school subfield and not simply an internship and Japanese language training program for engineers and business students. As this chapter has described, there is much to learn from Japanese technology and industry management practices.
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Success depends on maximizing the effective use of limited resources across the program, on generating much stronger industrial interest and support than has been evident to date, on overcoming barriers within the academic culture itself to creating multidisciplinary specializations such as this, and on understanding the relevant cultural issues that determine how effectively Japanese management practices can be transferred to U.S. industry.
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