Term 2 (Winter) 2013-2014

Competitiveness and Clusters (Prof. Emi Osono)

Case
Finland and Nokia: Creating the World's Most Competitive Economy (9-702-427)

Tuesdays/Fridays 1330-1530 (July 9, 2013)

Date Topic MODULE 1: FIRMS, INDUSTRIES AND CROSS-BORDER COMPETITION

Session 1 2 3 4 5 6 01/14 (T) 1/17 (F) 1/21T) 1/24(F) 1/28 (T) 1/31 (F) Competitiveness: Overall Framework

Student Projects

Article
On Competition Chapters 6 and 7 On Competition Chapter 8 Can Japan Compete? Chapter 2 pp.18-36, Chapter 3 pp. 6982. Review On Competition Chapter 7

Guests/Others
MEP Video from MOC Dec 2012 ------DVD DVD

MODULE 2: LOCATIONS AND CLUSTERS

Competition Across Locations and Global Strategy for Volvo Trucks (A): Penetrating the U.S. Market (9-702-418) MNCs The Japanese Facsimile Industry in 1990 (9-391-209)

The Diamond Model Clusters and Cluster Development: Advanced Economies Cluster Internationalization Clusters in Developing Countries

The California Wine Cluster (9-799-124), The Australian Wine Cluster (as supplementary information) (9-703-492) The Dutch Flower Cluster (9-711-507) Building a Cluster: Electronics and Information Technology in Costa Rica (9-703-422) De Beers: Addressing the New Competitive Challenges (9-706501) Toyota in Indonesia 2013 (ICS case)

Student Presentation 1,2 --Student Presentation 3,4 ---

MODULE 3: THE CORPORATE ROLE IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT/CREATING SHARED VALUE

7 8 2/4 (T) 2/7 (F) Clusters in Developing Countries From a company's perspective Student Presentation 5,6 --Student Presentation 7,8 Student Presentation 9,10 Porter=Takeuchi, Can Japan Compete? Chapters 5 and 6. Revisit Porter's presentation deck (Dec 5, 2013) TBD TBD Guest Speaker from Toyota (TBD)

MODULE 4: INTEGRATION -- CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT IN JAPAN

9 10 11 12 2/14 (T) 2/18 (T) 2/21 (F) Week of 2/18 Japanese government's role Cluster development in Japan Cluster development in Japan Final paper due Industrial policy in Japan Cluster development in Japan--Recent cases: KitaKyushu, Nagoya, Hokuriku Hokuriku synthetic fiber (tentative)

Text book 1: Michael E. Porter. 2008. On Competition: Updated and Expanded Edition . Harvard Business Press. Text book 2: M. E. Porter, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Mariko Sakakibara. 2000. Can Japan Compete? Perseus Publishing.