An Analysis on the Organization of the Software Industry:The Case of Japan
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The develoment in computer technology has brought us the high information society. The role of information in the society has become by far important than before. But we only have a slight acquaintance with the information industries, especially the software industry.In this paper we pursose to describe the principal characteristics of the Japanese software industry referring to the traditional methodology of Joe S. Bain, and to discuss how the problems in it could be solved.Software is devided into two. one is the basic software and the other is the application software. They have each market. Two markets contrast sharply. The basic software has the oilgopolistic market structure, but on the other hand the application software shows the conditions of the monopolistic competition.The life-cycle of the software is long, so firms seem to maximize rather their market shares than profits. The price of software is set by "NINGETU HOSHIKI", a type of full-cost principle, which multiplies the total number of engineers engaged to develop it by the time needed to develop it.As we are short of the data, it is difficult for us to evaluate accuately the whole performance of the software industry, but as far as the existing data in the application software is concerned, it seems to be comparatively good. Many new comers have been entering the market, it keeps contestable for now. But we have some serious problems. The most serious one is the shortage of the engineers and the low productivity. Besides them the working conditions of the engineers aren't so comfortable.We think that the basic orientation to solve such problems may be for individual film to develop more highly value added software. As to the concrete methods, for example, introducing the method of the software engineering or raising the weight of the package software are effective.
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