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Springer Verlag, Singapore The Efficiency and Creativity of Product
Book SynopsisThis is the first book that comprehensively describes the history of the game software industry in Japan. A major objective here is to identify the key determinants of the emergence of the business, the maturing of the market, and the changes brought about by innovations, based on the history of the Japanese industry. To date, similar books have focused only on particular topics of the game software industry, such as the success of Nintendo and Sony and the uniqueness of the Japanese industry. There are no books that interpret the development process of this industry from the point of view of innovation. To fully understand the business and derive insightful lessons from it, however, requires a careful and thorough examination of its development process. Currently, many companies aim to improve efficiency by using information and communications technology (ICT), but it is difficult to maintain a balance between the pursuit of efficiency and the encouragement of creativity. In the case of Japan’s game software industry, firms have pursued higher efficiency in product development to build competitive advantage, resulting in a low rate of radical innovation and causing the slow growth of the industry. In certain situations, the development activities that target the creation of new products may, in themselves, hinder the creation of truly new products. This book conceptualizes this phenomenon as a “development productivity dilemma” and clarifies the mechanisms behind it. The dilemma, like the productivity dilemma in the manufacturing industry, evokes a certain innovation pattern and prevents potential growth. Understanding the lessons from the game software business presented in this book, managers, researchers, and policymakers can gain insight into the mechanisms leading to industrial maturity and clues to avoid the development productivity dilemma.Table of ContentsCh1. A fundamental dilemma: efficiency versus creativity.- Ch2. Analytical framework and the research design: Innovation pattern and evolution of industry.- Ch3. The origins of the game software business in Japan: the movement till 1970’s.- Ch4. Creating New Demand: the start-up of the new industry in early 1980s.- Ch5. The transition of the industry: the market expansion and establishment of major firms after 1980s.- Ch6. Decline in demand creation: the impasse of industry in late 1990s.- Ch7. The innovation pattern in the digital age: The lesson from the game software industry.- Ch8. The development productivity dilemma and its consequences.- Ch9. Conclusion.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore IEIS 2021: Proceedings of 8th International
Book SynopsisThis book aims to provide new research methods, theories and applications from various areas of industrial economics and engineering. In detail, the included scientific papers analyse and describe communication processes in the fields of industrial economics, industrial system, industrial security and engineering and other related areas. The variety of the papers delivers added value for both scholars and practitioners. This book is the documentation of the IEIS 2021 conference. The book covers a great deal of research achievements in industrial restructuring strategy, industrial organization, industrial policy, departmental economic research, industrial competitiveness, regional industrial structure, national industrial economic security theory and empirical research, and it emphasizes on combining theory with practice. The book aims to discuss the issues in industrial economics and industrial security theories and practices. It is the documentation of IEIS 2021 conference, which took place at Shandong University. Due to the impact of COVID-19, it took place online as a virtual conference.Table of ContentsThe Evaluation System of Publishing Industry’s Competitiveness in Overseas Market.- Economic research on regional poverty alleviation and prevention of return to poverty.- Sustainable Performance of Rural Banking: A Heterogeneity Study in the Coastal Regions of China.- Research of New Energy Vehicles Eco-business Model and Its Influence on Brand Competitiveness.- Equity Diversification and Capital Allocation Efficiency: Evidence from China’s mixed ownership reform.
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Springer Verlag, Singapore Current Issues in Public Utilities and Public
Book SynopsisThis book is novel in that it reveals significant issues of economics, management and business fields currently observed in network industries such as public utilities and transportation, and provides empirical evidence of their mechanisms and policy implications from various perspectives. This is a holistic collection of literature on public utilities economics and management, since the industries discussed include a wide range such as electricity, water supply, sewerage, transport, and postal service, which compound social infrastructure as public benefit service, and the issues examined contain not only economics topics such as cost, efficiency, and productivity, but also management topics such as governance, strategy and organizational restructuring. The book also investigates general private companies to derive future implications for policy and governance of public utilities, and covers multiple countries such as Japan, the US, and Vietnam. It demonstrates various empirical approaches and methodologies for public utility analysis through 17 chapters by experts in each field, which contributes to further cultivation of empirical studies in public utilities.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- An Analysis of the Effect of Demand Response on Electricity Consumption: Assessing Households’ Heterogeneous Reaction to Dynamic Pricing.- Estimation of Tap Water Demand in Japan: A Panel Data Analysis.- Economies of Scale and Consolidation Effects in the Japanese Sewerage Industry.- Productivity Measurement and Decomposition of Total Factor Productivity in Japan’s Postal and Parcel Delivery Industry.- Preferential Slot Allocation for LCCs at a Congested Airport, and Airfare: The Case of Haneda Airport in Tokyo.- The Impact of Airport Concession on Technical Efficiency: Evidence from Major Airports in Japan.- Travel-Based Multitasking in Japan between 2001 and 2016: Descriptive Analysis.- Understanding the Relationship between Daily Travel and Long-term Subjective Well-being.- The Relationship between Bicycle Accidents and Urban Structure in Cities in Japan.- Brand Strategy in Airline Mergers: Simulation Examples with Delta and North-west.- The Impact of Cooperation on the Multimarket Contact Effect in the U.S. Airline Industry.- The Japanese Sewerage Industry: Institutional Aspects and the Governance Systems.- Evaluating the Institutional Reforms and Private Participation in Japanese Container Ports - Evidence from Multi-Stage DEA Analysis.- Industrial Structure Change and Corporate Strategy: The Case of the Japanese Apparel Industry.- Effects of Sustainable Development Goals Engagement on Profit in Public Utilities: Comparison with General Private Companies.- The Relationship among Corporate Social Responsibility, Network Cooperation, Green Innovation, Environmental Performance and Firm Performance: Evidences in Viet Nam
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Springer The Impact of Cloud Computing on the Japanese
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Information Age Publishing Managerial Practice Issues in Strategy and
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Information Age Publishing Managerial Practice Issues in Strategy and
Book SynopsisThe field of strategy science has grown in both the diversity of issues it addresses and the increasingly interdisciplinary approaches it adopts in understanding the nature and significance of problems that are continuously emerging in the world of human endeavor. These newer kinds of challenges and opportunities arise in all forms of organizations, encompassing private and public enterprises, and with strategies that experiment with breaking the traditional molds and contours. The field of strategy science is also, perhaps inevitably, being impacted by the proliferation of hybrid organizations such as strategic alliances, the upsurge of approaches that go beyond the customary emphasis on competitiveness and profit making, and the intermixing of time-honored categories of activities such as business, industry, commerce, trade, government, the professions, and so on. The blurring of the boundaries between various areas and types of human activities points to a need for academic research to address the consequential developments in strategic issues. Hence, research and thinking about the nature of issues to be tackled by strategy science should also cultivate requisite variety in issues recognized for research inquiry, including the conceptual foundations of strategy and strategy making, and the examination of the critical roles of strategy makers, strategic thinking, time and temporalities, business and other goal choices, diversity in organizing modes for strategy implementation, and the complexities of managing strategy, to name a few. This book series on Research in Strategy Science aims to provide an outlet for ideas and issues that publications in the field do not provide, either expressly or adequately, especially as regards the comprehensive coverage deserved by certain emerging areas of interest. The topics of the volumes in the series will keep in view this objective to expand the research areas and theoretical approaches routinely found in strategy science, the better to permit expanded and expansive treatments of promising issues that may not sufficiently align with the usual research coverage of publications in the field.Managerial Practice Issues in Strategy and Organization contains contributions by leading scholars on significant issues relating to managerial practices in the field of strategy science research. The 11 chapters in this volume cover the topics of Big Science collaborations, open innovations in pharmaceutical companies, complementary roles and relative optimism of company CEOs, CFOs, and Board Chairs, business modelling, management of uncertainty, meta-management practices, proximity in innovation networks, institutional logics in alliances, and using technology in teaching. The chapters collectively present a wide-ranging review of the noteworthy research perspectives on the managerial practice issues in strategy and organization.
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