Title: Factors affecting the development of information systems in Japan: pioneering experience in the steel industry

Authors: Yoshisuke lnoue

Addresses: Momoyama Gakuin Daigaku (St Andrew's University), Sakai-City, Osaka-Prefecture, 588, Japan; formerly General Manager, Corporate Level Large Systems Development Department, Nippon Steel Corporation, Tokyo, Japan

Abstract: This paper reviews the development of information systems in the Japanese steel industry, from the end of the Second World War to the early 1990s. Five distinct periods of development are identified and characterized.

Keywords: information systems; Japanese steel industry; steel manufacture; management information systems; MIS; order entry systems; online control systems; Japan.

DOI: 10.1504/IJTM.1993.025766

International Journal of Technology Management, 1993 Vol.8 No.1/2, pp.157 - 174

Published online: 24 May 2009 *

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