On the Contribution of Research and Development Activities to the Output of an Industrial Corporation : Part8 : Technology-Oriented Styles of Management in Japan

Abstract

The balance among three main guiding disciplines was known to be the primary concern for the management of an industrial corporation, where each discipline provides for sales, for profit and for technology, respectively. From such a viewpoint, the general trends in technological strategies performed by Japanese corporations are reviewed, and it is found therefrom that the management style began to change from the sales-oriented (and/or the hyper-sales-oriented) to the technology-oriented (and/or the hyper-technology-oriented) style during the period while the Japanese economy losing rapidly its high growth rates. It is also pointed out in this period that the technologies for high efficiencies in production was first appreciated, but later on the R&D activities to develop advanced technologies were much appreciated. Changes in managerial indices under the management styles of bot sales-oriented and technology-oriented are estimated by using the JSR-RDM Model previously descrided.