03999nam a22005175i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001200172072001600184072002300200072001500223100008400238245012400322250001800446264007200464300006400536336002600600337002600626338003600652347002400688505022500712520193200937650003602869650002302905650002202928650003102950650003002981650003603011650002303047650002203070650004303092700008603135710003403221773002603255776003603281776003603317776003603353856004603389912001403435912001503449999001703464978-981-19-3300-4DE-He21320251030113043.0cr nn 008mamaa240914s2024    si |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97898119330049978-981-19-3300-47 a10.1007/978-981-19-3300-42doi 4aHD28-70 7aKCD2bicssc 7aBUS0700002bisacsh 7aKCD2thema1 aTakeda, Yosuke.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut98430310aInformation Agglomeration of Japanese Auto Parts Suppliersh[electronic resource] /cby Yosuke Takeda, Ichihiro Uchida.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aSingapore :bSpringer Nature Singapore :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aXI, 132 p. 24 illus., 23 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aThe Economics of Information Agglomeration -- Technology Information Sharing -- Initiative for Relation-Specific Skills -- Automobile Electronics and Capital Adjustment Costs -- Legal Enforcements for Competition Policy.  aThis 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. 0aIndustrial organization.957885 0aLaw and economics. 0aEconomics.958354 0aRegional economics.971042 0aSpatial economics.97104314aIndustrial Organization.95788524aLaw and Economics.24aEconomics.95835424aRegional and Spatial Economics.9710441 aUchida, Ichihiro.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut9843042 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978981193299108iPrinted edition:z978981193301108iPrinted edition:z978981976955140uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-3300-4  aZDB-2-ECF  aZDB-2-SXEF  c63381d63381