Information technology innovation and the Japanese economy / Kazunori Minetaki and Kiyohiko G. Nishimura
Imprint
Singapore : NUS Press in association with University of Tokyo Press, c2010
Descript
v, 229 p. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
IT innovation in the US : sources of productivity gains and presence of network effects -- IT innovation in Europe : complementarity with knowledge labor -- IT innovation in Japan : IT capital, labor demand, and technological progress -- Theoretical underpinnings : production capacity function and capacity utilization function -- Substitutability of production inputs : IT capital stock and various labor inputs -- The impact of IT advances in Japan : distortions wrought by the new economy -- Productivity in Japan's information services industry : modularization, the mythical man-month, and corporate organizational structures -- Organizational design and IT innovation of Japanese firms : analysis of IT innovation in Japan after 2000
SUBJECT
Information technology -- Economic aspects -- Japan
Technological innovations -- Economic aspects -- Japan
Computer industry -- Technological innovations -- Japan