Incremental Innovation and Organizational Structure:

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  • インクリメンタル・イノベーションと組織設計：日本の自動車産業における改善活動の実態とコンピュータ・シミュレーション
  • インクリメンタル ・ イノベーション ト ソシキ セッケイ : ニホン ノ ジドウシャ サンギョウ ニ オケル カイゼン カツドウ ノ ジッタイ ト コンピュータ ・ シミュレーション
  • Field Research in the Japanese Auto Industry and Computer Simulation Analysis

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<p>Existing studies have argued that incremental innovations, such as kaizen, are rather normative and always driven by workers and work teams. This paper challenges this stereotypical image of kaizen as incremental innovation; it clarifies that kaizen consists of a series of various individual improvements of different sizes. Furthermore, the paper discusses that some improvement projects require coordination beyond the working groups. For these reasons, it is required for managerial decisions to choose the size of innovations a firm should concentrate on and the type of organizational structures a firm should select for kaizen.</p>

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  • Organizational Science

    Organizational Science 52 (2), 70-86, 2018-12-20

    The Academic Association for Organizational Science

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