Management of Innovation Strategy in Japanese Companies

Edited by Kazuki Hamada and Shufuku Hiraoka

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Abstract: Traditionally, innovation has been considered difficult to manage, as it occurs through contingent discoveries and inventions. For effective innovation management, it is necessary to determine what provides new value to customers and achieve this new value efficiently, while solving the technical problems. This book explores how innovation management for industrial revitalization and activation are conducted in Japanese companies. "Innovation" has diverse definitions, but the editors of this book have adopted the one proposed by J A Schumpeter. The features of innovation management in Japanese companies are considered systematically in the book. Positive analyses using questionnaires and innovation management strategy in individual industries and companies is also explored in detail.

Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Innovation Value Chain; Management Control; Management Control System; Innovation Management; Target Costing; Front Loading; Material Flow Costing; Balanced Scorecards (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
ISBN: 9789814759625
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Strategic Management and Profit Creation in the Context of Innovation: The Management of Innovation Value Chains , pp 3-18

Kazuki Hamada

Ch 2 Idea Decision-Making for Innovation: How Can Good Ideas be Discovered Organizationally? , pp 19-36

Takeshi Ito

Ch 3 Management Control System to Promote Innovation and Corporate Venturing , pp 37-51

Katsuhiro Ito

Ch 4 Do Management Control Systems Really Contribute to Product Innovation? , pp 53-65

Kazunori Fukushima

Ch 5 Solving the Wage Differentials Throughout the Supply Chain by Collaborative Innovations for Changing the Parts Prices and Costs , pp 67-93

Yasuhiro Monden

Ch 6 The Inherent Roles of Management Accounting for Promoting Innovation: The Case of Material Flow Cost Accounting , pp 95-108

Tatsumasa Tennojiya

Ch 7 Innovation Strategies and Segment Reporting: A Case Study of Corporate Electronics Groups in Japan , pp 111-129

Shufuku Hiraoka

Ch 8 Front Loading: Key Concept of Strategy for Business Innovation in Japanese Automobile Industry , pp 131-143

Noriyuki Imai

Ch 9 Changes in Product Development Approaches and Target Costing , pp 145-160

Naoya Yamaguchi

Ch 10 Organizational Learning via Strategy Formulation and the Role of MCS in That Process: The Case of Kikkoman Corporation , pp 161-177

Junji Fukuda

Ch 11 Management Control Systems and Innovation: The Case of Micro-Profit Centers , pp 179-192

Yuichi Kubota

Ch 12 Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation Viewed from HRM: Based on a Questionnaire Survey of Regular Employees in Middle-Ranking Companies in the Tokyo Area , pp 195-213

Eiji Okamoto

Ch 13 Japanese Multinational Enterprises’ Preventive Actions Against Transfer Pricing Taxation , pp 215-228

Koji Umeda

Ch 14 Economic Analysis of Strategy Risk and Transaction Cost: The Case of an Air Transportation Company , pp 229-244

Chiungfeng Ko

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