Management of Innovation Strategy in Japanese Companies

The following sections are included:

• Japan Society of Organization and Accounting (JSOA)
• Japanese Management and International Studies (JMIS)
• Contents
• Preface
• About the Volume Editors
• List of Contributors

The following sections are included:

• Introduction: The Present Conditions of the Innovation in Japan
• Relations Between Corporate Strategies and Innovation Strategies
• Innovation Strategies and Management Control
• Innovation Value Chains and Management Systems
• DDP to Promote Development Ideas and Product Development
• Profit Acquisition Management with Regard to Product Innovation
• Summary and Conclusion
• References

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Previous Research
• The Decision-Making Process in Innovation and its Problem Points
• Constraints on Resource Investment in Improving Ideas and Measures for Their Maximum Utilization
• Designing Idea Screening Process
• Discussion on Requirements for Operating the Process
• Conclusion
• References

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Strategy Emergence Model of Simons
• Burgelman’s Strategy Formation Process Model
• Examination of MCS Researches using Burgelman’s Model
• Conclusions
• References

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Literature Review and Theoretical Framework
• Research Method
• Results and Discussion
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgment
• References

The following sections are included:

• Theme of This Paper
• Japanese Causes of Poverty and How We Should Cope with the Wage Differentials
• Why Can the Inter-firm Network Reduce the Costs? Negative and Positive Aspects
• Demand for Higher Wages by the Japanese Government to the Industrial World: The First Phase Movement
• Increase in the Parts Prices Facing the Yen Currency Depreciation: The Second Phase Movement of Demand for Higher Wage by Premier Abe in the Government/Labor/Management Conference
• Problem to be Considered in the Pay Raise by the Government Leadership
• Collaborations During the Yen Currency Depreciation Periods
• Collaborations During the Yen Currency Appreciation Periods
• Negotiation Between Automaker and Parts Supplier for Determining the Parts Prices in the Product-Development Phase: Application of VE or Target Costing
• How to Adapt to the Parts-Price Reduction Requested by the Automaker Twice a Year: VA or “Kaizen Costing” Applied to Achieve the Newly Reduced Target Cost for the Part in the Manufacturing Phase
• For the Assurance of Sustainable Supply Chain: Incentives to Induce the Members’ Contributions
• Concluding Summary for Continuous Evolution
• References
• Supplementary Reference Resources

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• What is Material Flow Cost Accounting?
• Innovation Through MFCA: Canon
• The Inherent Role of Management Accounting in the Promotion of Innovation
• Conclusions and Future Research
• Acknowledgment
• References

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Corporate Groups with Unfavorable Performance
• Corporate Groups with Recovering the Performance
• Groups Maintaining High Performance
• Summary
• References

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Innovation Perspectives in the Automobile Industry in Japan
• Traditional Innovation in the Automotive Industry in Japan
• New Innovations in the Automobile Industry in Japan
• Front Loading
• The Concept of Invisible Competitive Strategy
• Conclusion
• References

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Outline of New Product Development Approaches in Automakers
• Feature of New Product Development Approaches Seen from Product Architecture
• Components of New Product Development Approaches
• Effects Expected by New Product Development Approaches
• Reduction in Manufacturing Costs through Modules/Parts Communalization
• Conclusion: Target Costing under New Product Development Approaches
• References

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Role of the MCS in the Strategy Formulation Process
• The Case of Kikkoman Corporation and its Direct Investment in the U.S.
• Discussion
• Summary and Future Developments
• Acknowledgment
• References

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Literature Review
• Hamamatsu Photonics
• Discussion
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• References

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Literature Review and Research Framework
• Method of Investigation in Actual Conditions
• Results of the Investigation
• Discussions on the Investigation
• Conclusion
• Future Research
• References

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• The Method of Calculating the ALP and Issues with the TPT
• Literature Review and Research Framework
• Research Method
• Results and Discussion
• Conclusion
• References

The following sections are included:

• Introduction
• Literature review
• Case Study
• Analysis results
• Conclusions
• References

The following sections is included:

• Index