Strategy and circumstance: The response of American firms to Japanese competition in semiconductors, 1980-1995

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Langlois, RN; Steinmueller, WE
• 署名单位: University of Connecticut; University of Sussex
• 刊物名称: STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT JOURNAL
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0143-2095
• DOI: 10.1002/1097-0266(200010/11)21:10/11<1163::AID-SMJ142>3.0.CO;2-G
• 发表日期: 2000
• 页码: 1163-1173
• 关键词: semiconductors; international competition; capabilities

摘要

In the mid-1980s, Japanese firms strongly challenged American dominance of the semiconductor industry. A large literature arose to suggest that, in order to survive, American firms needed to adopt the capabilities and strategies of the Japanese. Recently, American firms have indeed surged back to regain a strong position in the industry. This essay attempts to collect some of the lessons for strategy research of that American resurgence. We argue that, although some of the American response did consist in changing or augmenting capabilities, most of the renewed American success is in fact the result not of imitating superior Japanese capabilities but rather of taking good advantage of a set of capabilities developed in the earlier heyday of American dominance. Copyright (C) 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.