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Professionals, Production Systems and Innovation Capacities in The Software Industry: A comparison between France and Japan

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  • Caroline Lanciano-Morandat

    (LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Hiroatsu Nohara

    (LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

Abstract

Our analysis shows that the two French and Japanese software production systems form a coherent whole and that the strengths and weaknesses of each system are logical extension of the societal characteristics already observed in industrial manufacturing. In Japan, the software industry tends to imitate manufacturing logics with its proper efficiency in producing standardised and material goods, but it doesn't always succeed in doing the same with regard to intangible goods. The software production needs in a sense an unorganised and more control-free invention system. In France, the software companies represent a high quality and ‘artisan-type' production system. French engineers can perform a far-reached technical prowess but fail to co-operate in order to accumulate a collective and shared knowledge and finally to forge a ‘neo-industrialisation' logic of service. As a result, the reconfiguration of organisational and institutional arrangements in software sector is essential, for the two countries, to readjust their production systems to a new technological environment.

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  • Caroline Lanciano-Morandat & Hiroatsu Nohara, 2009. "Professionals, Production Systems and Innovation Capacities in The Software Industry: A comparison between France and Japan," Post-Print halshs-00485076, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-00485076
    DOI: 10.34607/jssiss.60.1_43
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    1. Hiroatsu Nohara & Eric Verdier, 2001. "Sources Of Resilience In The Computer And Software Industries In France," Industry and Innovation, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(2), pages 201-220.
    2. Caroline Lanciano-Morandat & Hiroatsu Nohara, 1999. "A Comparative Study of R&D Staff in France and Japan : Skill Formation, Career Patterns and Organisational Creation of Knowledge," Post-Print halshs-00391249, HAL.
    3. Caroline Lanciano-Morandatt & Hiroatsu Nohara, 2003. "Les essaimages académiques dans le secteur de l'informatique en France : Effets institutionnels, effets de territoire ou construction des acteurs locaux ?," Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine, Armand Colin, vol. 0(2), pages 235-265.
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