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 analyzes 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.

Hun-Joon Park is Professor and Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Management at Yonsei University, Korea.

Shigemi Yoneyama is Professor of Management at Musashi University, Japan.

Hyuk-Rae Kim is Professor Korean Studies at the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University, Korea.