2012 Volume 20 Issue 4 Pages 265-287
Despite higher levels of R&D investment, Japanese companies continue to have lower IT investments than other advanced countries. Some attribute this to the low productivity growth rate and lost decade. Therefore, this paper studied the differences between the IT investments in Japan and the USA by accessing an open database to show the reason for these phenomena. Moreover, this set the hypotheses based on the findings from the above study and clarified the mechanism to generate these differences through the verification processes of the hypotheses. By interpreting the result and considering service innovations, this showed some proposals for future approach for IT usage. This paper used a two-sided market model to set and verify the hypotheses, while showing that two-sided market model is a useful approach for the future IT usage.
