Mad Technology: How East Asian Companies Are Defending Their Technological Advantages

At the end of the Cold War, the global economic system encountered a new phenomenon in the field of knowledge creation and technological innovation - the birth of mad technologies. This book analyses major changes in the national innovation systems (NIS) due to the introduction of mad technologies in East Asia. The authors find that mad technologies were the cause of stock market crashes and economic uncertainties in the region and conclude that successful corporations use various measures to neutralize mad technologies and/or incorporate them into the NIS.

INGYU OH is Professor of Organizational Behaviour and Innovation at the Graduate School of Management, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan. He has taught social sciences and business management in the U.S., New Zealand, and Japan. His books deal with Japanese, Korean, and Taiwanese management and innovation, and he has written extensively on East Asian business organizations, technological innovation, and other social science topics, such as comparison of democratization.

HUN-JOON PARK is Professor and Associate Dean of Graduate School of Management at Yonsei University, Korea. He has published several books on East Asian management and business ethics and has written numerous articles on technology management, corporate governance, managerial performance, and business ethics.

SHIGEMI YONEYAMA is Professor of Management at Musashi University, Japan. He has been publishing research results on technology development, transfers, and commercialization for the past ten years, and has written several books and articles on organizational behaviour, innovation, and comparative study of technology management. He is currently on sabbatical at INSEAD in France.

HYUK-RAE KIM is Professor Korean Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University, Korea. He has written several journal articles on the Korean and East Asian political economy, technological management, and globalization, and is the editor of Politics and Markets in the Wake of the Asian Crisis.