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Industrial Competitiveness and Design Evolution

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Editors:
  1. Takahiro Fujimoto

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

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  2. Fumihiko Ikuine

    1. Faculty of Engineering, Information and Systems, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

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  • Incorporates the concept of design and architecture into the comparative advantage theory of international trade and industrial competitiveness
  • Treats the concepts of designed artifacts, design information, design process and architecture in an integrated framework of manufacturing
  • Provides an analytical framework based on numerous field observations of manufacturing sites struggling to survive post-Cold War global competition through continuous capability building

Part of the book series: Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science (EESCS, volume 12)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  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

  5. Correction to: Industrial Competitiveness and Design Evolution

    • Takahiro Fujimoto, Fumihiko Ikuine
    Pages C1-C1
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • 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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