04204nam a22005655i 4500 978-981-19-3300-4 DE-He213 20251030113043.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240914s2024 si | s |||| 0|eng d 9789811933004 978-981-19-3300-4 10.1007/978-981-19-3300-4 doi HD28-70 KCD bicssc BUS070000 bisacsh KCD thema Takeda, Yosuke. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 84303 Information Agglomeration of Japanese Auto Parts Suppliers [electronic resource] / by Yosuke Takeda, Ichihiro Uchida. 1st ed. 2024. Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XI, 132 p. 24 illus., 23 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda The Economics of Information Agglomeration -- Technology Information Sharing -- Initiative for Relation-Specific Skills -- Automobile Electronics and Capital Adjustment Costs -- Legal Enforcements for Competition Policy. This book explains information agglomeration, a new concept we devise under the influence of Hidalgo (2015). Our concept of information agglomeration applies to an economy with horizontal divisions, while an ordinary concept of industry agglomeration means spillover effects of corporate firms on another ones in vertically integrated industries. In a horizontally divided economy of ‘a society in which the capacities of individuals greatly surpass their individual knowledge’ as Hidalgo (2015) envisages, ‘the combinatorial creativity emerges from our species’ ability to crystallize imagination.” Consequently, it is likely that information agglomerates in such knowledge-oriented economies. We take the Japanese auto parts suppliers for example. The production system in which highly modularized products are crafted by skilled labors and multipurpose machines was called flexible specialization instead of mass production by Piore and Sabel (1984). However, the conventional economics of transaction costs pioneered by Ronald Coase and Oliver Williamson suggests that it is costly for dispersed organizational networks to make and sustain creational links to accumulate vast volumes of knowledge/ information. We wonder what has made information agglomeration possible for the Japanese auto parts suppliers with the flexible specialization. What has lowered the transaction costs associated with the organizational links? We consider what causes the information agglomeration to amplify in the supply chains, constructing economic models of some hypotheses on the driving forces of information agglomeration and utilizing firm-level and establish-level micro data to empirically test these hypotheses. Finally, based on the empirical evidence on information agglomeration, we shed light on whither fast-evolving automobile manufacturing in Japan that autonomous driving technology is likely to exert traction on. Industrial organization. 57885 Law and economics. Economics. 58354 Regional economics. 71042 Spatial economics. 71043 Industrial Organization. 57885 Law and Economics. Economics. 58354 Regional and Spatial Economics. 71044 Uchida, Ichihiro. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 84304 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9789811932991 Printed edition: 9789811933011 Printed edition: 9789819769551 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3300-4 ZDB-2-ECF ZDB-2-SXEF 63381 63381