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Industrial Competitiveness and Design Evolution (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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Industrial Competitiveness and Design Evolution (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science, 12
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This book integrates the concept of design into the existing
framework of industrial performance, international trade and
comparative advantage in trade and industrial phenomena, which
increasingly have been affected by design characteristics of
tradable goods. Design, capability and their evolution are
introduced into current theories of trade to explain the reality of
international trade in the early twenty-first century and the
possibility of design-based comparative advantage is explored.
Toward that end, the concepts of design, architecture,
organizational capability and productivity are introduced, as are
their interactions and evolution. The author starts from the fact
that firms' selection of design locations precedes that of
production locations and that a new product's initial production
location is usually the same as its design location. In other
words, design matters in explaining today's trade phenomena. Thus,
this book analyzes product design and its evolution in the context
of the comparative advantage theory. The author argues that the
concept of Ricardo's comparative advantage must be reinterpreted in
a more dynamic way than in the past, with changing labor input
coefficients treated as variables and driven by international
capability-building competition between factories. Some of the many
topics dealt with in this volume include a capability-architecture
view of industrial comparative advantage, a design-based view of
manufacturing, the evolution of manufacturing capabilities,
Ricardian comparative advantage with changing labor input
coefficients, comparative design cost and selection of design
locations and a design process model behind comparative design
cost. In this way, the behaviors of factories, product development
projects, firms, industries and national economies in today's
global competition are described and analyzed in the most realistic
way.
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