Endogenous Innovation Strategy: Matching Product Architecture and Organizational Capability——Use Information Household Appliance Enterprises in Japan as case
In the era of knowledge-based economy, innovation has become a key factor for enterprise to gain international competitiveness. In this paper, we made an in-depth empirical study which based on the Japanese information household appliance enterprises, and analyzed the success and failure of how their information household appliance products could obtain an international competitiveness. Study found that Japanese information household appliance enterprises in the raw material areas of the upstream of industry and the components areas of the middle-stream of industry have greater national competitiveness, but have lower competitiveness in the final products areas of the downstream of industry. It is apparent that the Japanese information household appliance enterprises have strong capacity in running the holistic products. However the power of assembling the module products is very weak, as we studied, which is the typical dualpattern of the Japanese enterprises. From the paradigm of matching product architecture and organizational capability, we divided product architecture into two categories, that is, the modularization product and the integrity product. Then, we classified the modularization product into the stable-type product and the variable-type product. In addition, we indicated that different types of product architecture need enterprise to build suitable organization capability, whether the product architecture matches the organizational capability or not plays the crucial endogenous role for innovation. Finally, the strategic model of matching product architecture and organizational capability has been made in detail.
Endogenous Innovation Strategy Product Architecture Organization Capability Modularization Product Integrity Product
ZHANG Xuewen CHEN Jin TIAN Hua
Rcstep, Zhejiang University Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
国际会议
The Fifth InternationalSymposium on Management of Technology(ISMOT07)(第五届技术与创新管理国际研讨会)
杭州
英文
204-208
2007-06-01（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）