Competitiveness Of New Industries Institutional Framework And Learning In Information Technology In Japan The Us And Germany 1st Edition by Cornelia Storz, Andreas Moerke 0415416248 9780415416245

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ISBN 10: 0415416248

ISBN 13:  9780415416245

Author: Cornelia Storz, Andreas Moerke

Many recent books on information and communication technologies concentrate on individual country experiences or neglect to analyze political factors in conjunction with entrepreneurial ones. This book, the result of an international research project, comprises a comprehensive comparison of three key countries: Japan, the United States and Germany. The book adopts an institutional approach.

Competitiveness Of New Industries Institutional Framework And Learning In Information Technology In Japan The Us And Germany 1st Table of contents:

Part I Introduction

1 Institutions and learning in new industries An introduction

Institutions and competitiveness

Institutions and lock-ins

Institutions and learning

Notes

Bibliography

Part II Institutional framework for ICT and options for political governance Japan, the United States and Germany in comparison

Subsection A Institutional conditions for introducing ICT

2 Legacies of the developmental state for Japan’s information and communications industries

Introduction

Telecommunications

The computer industry

Challenges to Japan’s PC and software industries

Industrial policy approach to the challenges

Outcome: weak PC penetration

Targeting broadband

The political reasons for weak pro-competitive regulation

The Future of e-Japan

Notes

Bibliography

3 Institutional framework and competitiveness of the US telecommunications market

Introduction

The telecommunications markets in the United States, Japan and Germany in perspective

Regulatory framework in the United States

Rules on telephone service

Rules on telecommunications equipment

Rules on cable TV

Rules on radio and TV broadcasting

Rules on Internet, online computer services and miscellaneous regulations

Development of competition in the United States

Findings and conclusions

Notes

References

4 Information and communication technologies in Germany Is there a remaining role for sector-specific regulations?

Introduction

The role of telecommunications for the Internet

New regulatory arrangements for communication services

The disaggregated regulatory approach

Localization of monopolistic bottlenecks within telecommunications networks

Competitive long-distance networks

The remaining regulatory problem in the local loop

Increasing competition within the local loop in Germany

Broadband versus narrowband access to the Internet: is there still a role for sector-specific regulation?

Backbone interconnection: is there still a role for sector-specific regulation?

Competitive markets for communications bandwidth

Unregulated interconnections: transit and peering

Summary

Notes

References

Subsection B The increasing role of self-regulation

5 Private solutions to uncertainty in Japanese electronic commerce1

Introduction

Consumer uncertainty and institutional solutions

Electronically traded goods as experience and credence goods: the problem of new uncertainties

Public policies and private regulation

Private regulation in Japanese business-to-consumer commerce13

Trust as a precondition for institutional solutions

Trust and path dependency

The lack of institutional trust in Japan and electronic commerce

Learning processes and path dependency

Entrepreneurial alertness and learning

New solutions in Japanese electronic commerce

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

6 Institutional conditions for achieving effective implementation of ICT

Introduction

The importance of ICT incubation

ICT incubation by government

ICT incubation in the United States

ICT development failures in the United States

Best practices in ICT development

Indigenous comparative advantages

Acquired comparative advantages

Government vision, strategy and stewardship

Canadian government efforts

Korean government efforts

Japanese government efforts

Regulatory initiatives

Supply-side stimulation: underwriting research, funding pilot programmes and community champions

Demand-side stimulation: promoting digital literacy, aggregating demand and delivering e-government services

New challenges to developed nations

Conclusions

Notes

References

7 B2C e-commerce dynamics in Germany Do we need a new regulatory framework?1

Why does consumer oriented e-commerce develop ‘so slowly’? Is there a simple answer to a simple question?

Business-to-consumer e-commerce in Germany

Definitions of B2C

The evolution of B2C and overall e-commerce sales

Business-to-consumer e-commerce in Germany: dimension, dynamics and structure

Factors influencing the structure and volume of B2C e-commerce in Germany

Differentiated picture

Technology

Internet firms: supply-side factors

Demand-side fctors: Internet access, learning processes and fading fears of misuse

Institutional factors: Regular settings and the development of B2C e-commerce

Regulation of B2C e-commerce in Germany

How to regulate B2C e-commerce

E-commerce policy in Germany

How should e-commerce be regulated in the future?

Conclusions

Notes

Bibliography

Part III Industrial organization, enterprise structure and ICT Japan, the United States and Germany in comparison

Subsection A Effects of ICT on industrial organization and on firm structures

8 ICT and corporate structure The diffusion of e-commerce across Japanese companies1

Introduction

Diffusion across industries

Users of e-commerce

Locations and structure of e-commerce companies

Diffusion of e-commerce

Adoption within companies

Adoption of e-commerce

Impacts of the Internet and e-commerce

Efficiency

Coordination

Commerce

Notes

Bibliography

9 The rise and fall of ‘Wintelism’1 Manufacturing strategies and transnational production networks of US information electronics firms in the Pacific Rim

Introduction

Wintelism and the rise of transnational production networks

The recession and the global restructuring of production networks

Vertical reintegration: the expansion of EMS production networks in Asia

Diverging paths of restructuring in key segments of the ICT sector

Personal computers

Mobile phones

Computer game consoles

The recombination of production networks: EMS vs. ODM

Conclusion: Wintelism and beyond

Notes

Bibliography

10 Open innovation Novel deployment of ICT in new product development

The concept of open innovation

The relevance of open innovation in the light of new ICT

Product differentiation and customer interaction

New opportunities for customer interaction

From closed to open innovation at Adidas-Salomon

Action research methodology

The current state of NPD at Adidas

The Adidas Customer Project

Evaluation

Discussion and conclusion

Leadership of open innovation

Organization of open innovation

Notes

Bibliography

Subsection B The social construction of institutions andtechnology

11 Next generation information and communication technologies deployment in Japan

Introduction

Generation change in mobile communication technologies

First generation (1G) – late 1980s

Second generation (2G) – early 1990s

Second generation with data enhancements (2.5G)–mid-1990s

Third generation (3G) – early 2000

Four-tier benefits of next generation wireless networks

End-user level

Operator level

National level

Global level

The 3G market in Japan

Snapshot of the Japanese market

Key factors behind Kddi’s 1x service success

Marketing

Service and products

Technology

Timing

FOMA gains momentum

Comparison of Asian and European/US mobile communication markets

Japan and Asia’s leadership in next generation technologies

Summary of Japan’s strength in next-generation mobile communication

Conclusion

Bibliography

12 Competitive advantage through co-evolution of technology and organization

Evolutionary theory of organizations

Information technology investment as variation, selection and retention

Nature of coupling among systems

Competition and cannibalism: the instant camera business

From balanced mutualistic to balanced competitive: Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange (CLUE)

Building mutualism: El Centro

Systemwide co-evolution: Dell Computer

Technology co-evolution

Dell in China: technology co-evolution

El Centro: failure to co-evolve technology

Conclusion

Bibliography

13 Shaping organizational technology ICT as a learning process

Introduction

Organizational technology

‘Windows of opportunity’

SAP R/3 – exploring adaptive activities

Definition and measurement of adaptive activities

Analysis of data

Sample

Adaptive activities

Self-organized technology creation in organizations: the case of an IT-consultancy

Stages of a self-organized technology creation process

Stage I: dysfunctional, exogenous organizational technology

Stage II: steps towards an informal problem solution

Stage III: the solution becomes known

Stage IV: the reaction of the hierarchy

Conclusions and outlook

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