"Increasing Complexity of Artifacts and the Response of Manufacturing Firms: Design of control systems and integration of mechanism, electronics, and software"
by FUJIMOTO Takahiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI)
November 2007

"Empirical Analysis of the Trading Structure Changes in East Asia under the Modularization of Product Architecture"
by KUWAHARA Satoshi (Senior Fellow, RIETI)
July 2006

"Integrating Modular Products beyond Industrial Boundary - Analysis of the integration process of a PC system and NC system"
by SHIBATA Tomoatsu (Kagawa University Graduate School) and KODAMA Fumio (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / The University of Tokyo / Shibaura Institute of Technology)
May 2006

"Increasing Complexity of Artifacts and the Role of Product Architecture"
by OKUNO Masahiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / The University of Tokyo Graduate School of Economics), TAKIZAWA Hirokazu (Fellow, RIETI), and WATANABE Yasunori (The University of Tokyo Manufacturing Management Research Center)
April 2006

"Failure to Capture Value Because of Commoditization - the Case of Digital Home Electronics"
by NOBEOKA Kentaro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University), ITO Munehiko (Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University) and MORITA Hirokazu (Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University)
March 2006

"International Intrafirm Transfer of Management Technology by Japanese Multinational Corporations"
by Shujiro Urata (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Waseda University), Toshiyuki Matsuura (RIETI) and Yuhong Wei (RIETI / Hitotsubashi University)
February 2006

"Product Architecture as a Coordination System"
by OKUNO Masahiro (Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo), WATANABE Yasunori (Specially Appointed Researcher, Manufacturing Management Research Center, The University of Tokyo)
February 2006

"Increasing Complexity and Limits of Organization in the Microlithography Industry: Implications for Japanese Science-based Industries"
by CHUMA Hiroyuki, Faculty Fellow, RIETI
March 2005

"Competitiveness of the Chinese Manufacturers in the Digital Appliances Industry: Limits of Combination Capabilities for Product Development of Modular Products"
by NOBEOKA Kentaro, Faculty Fellow, RIETI and UENO Masaki, Lecturer, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration - Kobe University
March 2005

"A Note on Comparative Advantage of Architectures"
by FUJIMOTO Takahiro, Faculty Fellow, RIETI
March 2005

"In Which Industries does Japan Excel? The Compatibility between Architecture and Organizational Capability"
by FUJIMOTO Takahiro, Faculty Fellow, RIETI, and NOBEOKA Kentaro, Faculty Fellow, RIETI
August 2004

"An Organizational Architecture of T-form: Silicon Valley Clustering and its Institutional Coherence (Formerly DP03-E-004)"
by AOKI Masahiko, President and Chief Research Officer, RIETI
January 2004

"Coordination Costs and the Optimal Partition of a Product Design"
by TAKIZAWA Hirokazu, Deputy Director of Research, Fellow, RIETI
June 2003

"Property Rights and the New Institutional Arrangement for Product Innovation in Silicon Valley"
by TAKIZAWA Hirokazu, Deputy Director of Research, Fellow, RIETI
February 2003

"T-forms of Organization Revisited and A Trans-disciplinary Framework for Institutional Analysis"
by AOKI Masahiko, President and Chief Research Officer, RIETI
January 2003

"Determinants of Microlithography Industry Leadership: The Possibility of Collaboration and Outsourcing"
by CHUMA Hiroyuki, Faculty Fellow, RIETI and AOSHIMA Yaichi, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University
January 2003

"Industry-Academic and Inter-corporate Collaboration in TAMA (Technology Advanced Metropolitan Area)"
by KODAMA Toshihiro, Senior Fellow, RIETI
December 2002

"Incentives and Option Value in the Silicon-Valley Tournament Game (Revised)"
by AOKI Masahiko, President and Chief Research Officer, RIETI
and TAKIZAWA Hirokazu, Faculty of Economics, Toyo University
February 2002

"Supplier Parks: Shared Proximity and Dispersed Ownership" [PDF:236KB]
by SAKO Mari, Visiting Fellow, RIETI
RIETI Policy Symposium, September 12, 2003

"Building on the Past, Imagining the Future: Competency-Based Growth Strategies in an Era of the Modular Production and the Services Transformation"
with John ZYSMAN, Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley / Co-director, Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy
December 7, 2007

"Empirical Analysis of the Trade Structure Changes in East Asia under Modularization of Product Architecture"
by KUWAHARA Satoshi
Research & Review, November 2006

"The Increasing Complexity of Artifacts and the Role of Product Architecture"
by TAKIZAWA Hirokazu
Research & Review, September 2006

"Competitiveness of Japanese Companies in Products with Modular Architecture: Limitation of Chinese Digital Appliance Manufacturers with Capabilities to Assemble"
by NOBEOKA Kentaro, Faculty Fellow, RIETI / Professor, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University
Brainstorming, July 2005

"The Implications of Modular Architecture"
by TAKIZAWA Hirokazu, Deputy Director of Research, Fellow, RIETI
Research & Review, April 2003

"Thinking of the Chinese Manufacturing Sector in Architecture Context"
by FUJIMOTO Takahiro, Faculty Fellow, RIETI
Research & Review, June 2002

"Architecture-based Analysis of Chinese Manufacturing Industries"
written and edited by FUJIMOTO Takahiro and SHINTAKU Junjiro
July 2005

"China's Immiserizing Growth"
by C. H. KWAN, Senior Fellow, RIETI
China in Transition, August 16, 2002