Industrial Competitiveness and Design Evolution

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Part I

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-3

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   2. A Design-Information-Flow View of Industries, Firms, and Sites

      • Takahiro Fujimoto

      Pages 5-41Open Access

   3. The Nature of International Competition Among Firms

      • Yoshinori Shiozawa, Takahiro Fujimoto

      Pages 43-96

   4. Product Variety for Effective Demand Creation

      • Yoshinori Shiozawa

      Pages 97-122

   5. Capability Building and Demand Creation in “Genba-Oriented Firms”

      • Takahiro Fujimoto

      Pages 123-154

   6. Evolution of Business Ecosystems

      • Hirofumi Tatsumoto

      Pages 155-188

3. Part II

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-190

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   2. Evolution of Organizational Capabilities in Manufacturing: The Case of the Toyota Motor Corporation

      • Takahiro Fujimoto

      Pages 191-221

   3. The Nature of Surviving Japanese Factories in the Global Competition: An Empirical Analysis of Electrical and Electronics Factories

      • Mitsuhiro Fukuzawa, Nobuyuki Inamizu, Junjiro Shintaku, Kodo Yokozawa, Nobutaka Suzuki

      Pages 223-247

   4. The Effectiveness of Group Leaders in the Lean Production System: Time Study and Agent-Based Model of Leaders’ Behavior

      • Nobuyuki Inamizu, Mitsuhiro Fukuzawa

      Pages 249-270

   5. The Diversity and Reality of Kaizen in Toyota

      • Shumpei Iwao

      Pages 271-298

   6. Balancing Standardization and Integration in ICT Systems: An Architectural Perspective

      • Young Won Park, Takahiro Fujimoto

      Pages 299-311

4. Part III

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 313-315

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   2. Creating New Demand: The Competition, Formation of Submarkets, and Platforms

      • Fumihiko Ikuine

      Pages 317-331

   3. Decline in Demand Creation: The Development Productivity Dilemma and Its Consequences

      • Fumihiko Ikuine

      Pages 333-347

   4. Investigating the Creation and Diffusion of Knowledge for Demand Creation: The Case of the Telecommunications Industry

      • Wei Huang, Masanori Yasumoto, Jing-Ming Shiu

      Pages 349-371

   5. The Impact of Platform Providers’ Knowledge on Interfirm Division of Labor: The Case of the Mobile Phone Industry

      • Jing-Ming Shiu, Masanori Yasumoto

      Pages 373-395

   6. Conclusion

      • Takahiro Fujimoto, Fumihiko Ikuine

      Pages 397-425Open Access

5. Correction to: Industrial Competitiveness and Design Evolution

   • Takahiro Fujimoto, Fumihiko Ikuine

   Pages C1-C1

This book integrates the concept of design into the existing framework of industrial performance, international trade and comparative advantage in trade and industrial phenomena, which increasingly have been affected by design characteristics of tradable goods. Design, capability and their evolution are introduced into current theories of trade to explain the reality of international trade in the early twenty-first century and the possibility of design-based comparative advantage is explored. Toward that end, the concepts of design, architecture, organizational capability and productivity are introduced, as are their interactions and evolution. The author starts from the fact that firms’ selection of design locations precedes that of production locations and that a new product’s initial production location is usually the same as its design location. In other words, design matters in explaining today’s trade phenomena. Thus, this book analyzes product design and its evolution in the context of the comparative advantage theory. The author argues that the concept of Ricardo’s comparative advantage must be reinterpreted in a more dynamic way than in the past, with changing labor input coefficients treated as variables and driven by international capability-building competition between factories. Some of the many topics dealt with in this volume include a capability-architecture view of industrial comparative advantage, a design-based view of manufacturing, the evolution of manufacturing capabilities, Ricardian comparative advantage with changing labor input coefficients, comparative design cost and selection of design locations and a design process model behind comparative design cost. In this way, the behaviors of factories, product development projects, firms, industries and national economies in today’s global competition are described and analyzed in the most realistic way.

• Capability-building Competition
• Design evolution
• Design-based comparative advantage
• Dynamic interpretation of Ricardian comparative advantage
• Industrial competitiveness

• Graduate School of Economics, The University of Tokyo, Bunkyo-Ku, Japan

  Takahiro Fujimoto

• Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

  Fumihiko Ikuine

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