| dc.creator | Oluoch, Nathaniel Agola | |
| dc.date | 2011-08-16T14:43:48Z | |
| dc.date | 2011-08-16T14:43:48Z | |
| dc.date | 1997 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-01-04T16:33:59Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-01-04T16:33:59Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 04-01-13 | |
| dc.identifier | Oluoch, Nathaniel Agola (1997), Dynamism among the Japanese small and medium manufacturing enterprises and its implications for development of manufacturing SMEs in Kenya, Working paper no. 517, Nairobi: Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.identifier | http://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/123456789/1095 | |
| dc.identifier | 322567 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11295/7531 | |
| dc.description | This paper tries to provide an analytical explanation to the dynamic performance of the
Japanese Small and Medium Industries from a technology management and organizational
perspective. First, the transformation stages of these businesses is discussed to give a better
understanding to the issue of dynamism amongst these industries. The approach of these
businesses to technology upgrading and eventual innovation stage is then analysed. The
Japanese system of small inceremental improvements on technology known in Japanese as
kaizen in combination with a system of business conversion method practiced by these
businesses is examined. The organizational structure and characteristics of these businesses is
also assessed since it is inseparable from the technology management method of these
businesses. Enterprise netivorking, the most outstanding aspect of the organizational trait of
these businesses is analysed as to how it facilitates technology upgrading and innovation. It
is from the analysis of this combination of technology management practice and the
organizational form of the Japanese manufacturing SMEs that lessons aimed at the
development of manufacturing SMEs in Kenya is finally drawn in the last section of this
paper. | |
| dc.language | en | |
| dc.publisher | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.relation | Working papers;517 | |
| dc.rights | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ | |
| dc.rights | Institute for Development Studies, University of Nairobi | |
| dc.subject | Industrial Development | |
| dc.subject | Trade | |
| dc.title | Dynamism among the Japanese small and medium manufacturing enterprises and its implications for development of manufacturing SMEs in Kenya | |
| dc.type | Series paper (non-IDS) | |
