How does information technology change the organization of Japanese firms? We try to answer this question through analysis of Japan's video game industry, which is an exceptionally successful industry among the information-related industries in Japan. According to the interview survey, there are...

Internal Development Strategy and External Development Strategy are observed in Japanese video game software industries. These two contrastive strategies are characterized by such systems as employment, training, and outsourcing. Firms pursuing Internal Development strategies establish a set of...

File sharing systems such as Napster and KaZaA are accused by the recording industry of causing declines in sales of music CDs, and recently users of these systems are under lawsuit attack. However, there is not sufficient evidence that file sharing systems are responsible for the recent decline...