Manufacturing and Firm Performance in Technology-Intensive Industries: U.S. and Japanese DRAM Experience

Manufacturing and Firm Performance in Technology-Intensive Industries: U.S. and Japanese DRAM Experience

Firm-specific limits on capacity development rates (rates at which firms are able to increase output rate to design capacity) can affect firm performance in important ways, especially for firms involved in technological competition which introduce products relatively early. A simple model in which c...

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Published in:Review of industrial organization Vol. 7; no. 3/4; pp. 273 - 294
Main Author: FLAHERTY, M. THERESE
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Kluwer Academic Publishers 01-01-1992
Subjects:
Community capacity building
Factories
Industrial capacity
Industrial market
Industrial products
Japan
Manufacturing
Manufacturing industries
Market share
Random access memory
Semiconductors
Shipments
Studies in International Competition in Semiconductors
U.S.A
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Summary:Firm-specific limits on capacity development rates (rates at which firms are able to increase output rate to design capacity) can affect firm performance in important ways, especially for firms involved in technological competition which introduce products relatively early. A simple model in which capacity development rates act in this way is developed and tested using data from semiconductor memory products (DRAMs). These results are used to estimate the ex post impact of increasing U.S. capacity development limits to the higher Japanese levels in the important 64K DRAM generation.
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ISSN:0889-938X
1573-7160
DOI:10.1007/BF00353397