The Japanese Firm as an Innovating Institution

Masahiko Aoki and Nathan Rosenberg

Chapter 6 in Economic Institutions in a Dynamic Society: Search for a New Frontier, 1989, pp 137-161 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract At one level, this paper may be regarded as an exercise in comparative industrial organisation. We are primarily interested in accounting for the highly successful performance of Japanese manufacturing firms in the innovation process. In pursuing this goal, however, it will be necessary to ‘unpack’, and to examine critically, some intellectual baggage that has strongly shaped and influenced the approach to innovative activity in the recent past. To the extent that our approach is convincing, it suggests a reordering of focus and emphasis in the study of innovation.

Keywords: Technological Change; Innovation Process; Technological Knowledge; Innovative Activity; Incentive Structure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1989
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-20097-9_6

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