A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS ON GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS BETWEEN LCD PANEL AND FLAT GLASS IN THE TFT-LCD INDUSTRY FROM PROCESS ARCHITECTURE-BASED VIEW

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What is the source of global competitiveness in Japanese process industry? And how does its competitiveness relate with process architecture? It is hypothesized that a product with integral architecture tended to have high global competitiveness, and a product with modular architecture tended to have low one in Japan because Japanese manufacturers have integral capabilities. There has already been some empirical research. However, this type of research has focused on assembled products like automobile and electronics industry, and rarely focused on non-assembled products like material or equipment in so-called process industry in spite that there have been many strong suppliers in Japan. So, we attempt to conduct exploratory research from process architecture based view about LCD panel and flat glass in the TFT-LCD industry. We think process architecture is very important in process industry. And we also compare these two products in the same industry and try to clarify the difference of source of competitiveness between them.