Faculty Information - TOYAMA Akira

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TOYAMA Akira
Department Osaka University of Economics Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Business Administration

Position Associate Professor

■ Books and Articles

1.	2025/12	Article	The Institutional Significance of Production System Standardization as a Foundation for Digital Transformation — A Historical Reassessment of TSMC’s 1990s Virtual Fab in the Semiconductor Industry. International Journal of Japan Society for Production Management 10(1),pp.29-34 (Single)
2.	2024/11	Article	A Record of Kobe Kogyo’s Product Development of the Transistor Car Radio for Toyota’s First Crown Automobile: Tracing the Origins of Japan’s Automotive Semiconductors. Journal of Osaka University of Economics 75(4),pp.29-59 (Single)
3.	2021/09	Article	Research on the Book "Transistor Technology" Considered as the Bible of the Early Days of the Semiconductor Industry: Identify and Rectify the Fallacy about the Number of Volumes Acquired by Sony (Tokyo Tsushin Kogyo). Journal of Osaka University of Economics 72(3),pp.93-117 (Single)
4.	2021/06	Book	Introduction to Business Administration for Beginners (Collaboration)
5.	2021/04	Article	Historical Background of Standardized Communication Protocols by SEMI. Production Management 28(1),pp.162-166 (Single)
6.	2020/04	Article	A Study of Software for Preventing Quality Fraud―The Example of QC-One System Developed by Ube Information Systems, Inc―. Production Management 27(1),pp.131-136 (Single)
7.	2019/10	Article	A Discussion Regarding the Reason behind the Emergence and Existence of MES ―From a Historical Viewpoint of Factory Computerization―. Production Management 26(2),pp.34-40 (Single)
8.	2019/04	Article	A Study of Teaching Method of Kanban System at the Lecture ―Effects and Significance of Introducing Role Play―. Production Management 26(1),pp.123-128 (Single)
9.	2017/04	Article	A Study of Factors of Japanese IDMs’ Perplexity in the Field of System LSI Devices ―From the View Point of the Coordination of Information Systems through a Comparison with Innovative TSMC―. Production Management 24(1),pp.7-20 (Single)
10.	2015/04	Article	A Study of the Particularity in Managing the Work Progress in the Semiconductor Fabrication Plants―Difficulty in Production Control during Japanese IDMs’ Golden Age―. Production Management 21(2),pp.95-100 (Single)
11.	2014/10	Article	The Ultimately Coordinated Information Systems―The Example of Global SCM System Developed and Implemented by Fujitsu Frontech Limited―. Production Management 21(1),pp.29-34 (Single)
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■ Academic background

2017/03
Degree Acquisition

, Ph.D.

■ Business career

1.	2023/03～	Osaka University of Economics Faculty of Business Administration Department of Business Administration Associate Professor
2.	2018/04～2023/03	Osaka University of Economics Faculty of Business Administration Department of Business Administration Lecturer

■ researchmap Member ID

7000023167

■ e-Rad Researcher Number

90824409