A logic of management and technological transfer for evolving capabilities : Studies on Mitsubishi from 1915-35.
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This is a study that focuses on the relation between institutional and organizational process in terms of evolutionary economics. This paper is interested in the application of evolutionary concepts to the empirical study of the firm. Historical and institutional studies required different approaches and methods than docomparative statics. In the presentation, comparing several cases of technological transfers or developments which happened in one firm, in Mitsubishi, will help to explain how the institutions function for evolving capabilities, because new transferred technologies are expect to require the development of managerial infrastructure that provides working rules, administrative structures and collective legitimacy. Mitsubishi, the biggest unitary firm in Japan with the established collective ideas and rules, developed capabilities for new industries by the internal growth with no mergers and acquisitions. Principally, there are two type of evolving business capabilities; the one is through establishing a new firm, and the other one is through starting a new business within the existing firm. This paper would deal with the empirical cases of the latter type of evolving capabilities and shed light on the factors that condition successes or constrains. The sequential cases of the diversification strategies in Mitsubishi, particularly after the end of the First World War, not only showed how a Japanese big business struggle with the challenges that the second industrial revolution brought to, but also gave the example of a realisation of this type of entrepreneurial actions in Japan. This study deal with one firm, but compare the multiple cases of technology transfers and developments. The firm Mitsubishi already had the established rules and routines of thinking and executing how to evolve capabilities. From 1915 to 1935, Mitsubishi developed the capabilities for electric appliances, airplanes, chemistry submarine boat, chemistry and oil refinery. Before describe how the existing institutions functioned across these cases, it is necessary to review the concepts for observing the firms. Through comparing these cases, In this paper the architecture of the firm is defined as the constitutional part of institutions and collectiveness for evolving capabilities. Mainly in the presentation, I will describe each case and compare with them.
- 一般社団法人日本機械学会の論文
- 2005-07-01
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