Managing R&D in a Japanese Company: The Toray Corporation

Abstract

Japan's Toray Corporation is discussed to illustrate a successful company's evolvement from a textile company into a multi‐product high‐tech company. To achieve this, the company's product development strategy has gone from one of borrowing the technology from others to developing it for itself.

Citation

Matsumoto, Y. (1987), "Managing R&D in a Japanese Company: The Toray Corporation", Industrial Management & Data Systems, Vol. 87 No. 11/12, pp. 15-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb057495