The theme of the book exactly matches the title: the dynamics of knowledge, the corporate system and innovation. Knowledge is created and accumulated in the corporate system, which seeks to utilize it to introduce innovation to the market and society. Corporate organizations generate new knowledge through their in-house R&D activities, and introduce new products and services to the market by combining their own new knowledge and the knowledge generated by others, e.g. universities. Thus, the corporate system is the essential linchpin between knowledge and innovation, and the interactive dynamics between knowledge, the corporate system, and innovation are extremely important. To understand and guide innovative activities in the society, deeper insights into these dynamics are crucial. This book is a step forward in that direction.
Author(s): Hiroyuki Itami (auth.), Hiroyuki Itami, Ken Kusunoki, Tsuyoshi Numagami, Akira Takeishi (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 358
Tags: Organization/Planning; Technology Management; Business/Management Science, general
Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Organization Accumulates and Market Utilizes: A Framework of Knowledge-Corporate System-Innovation Dynamics....Pages 3-24
Boundaries of Innovation and Social Consensus Building: Challenges for Japanese Firms....Pages 25-42
Redefining Innovation as System Re-Definition....Pages 43-75
Knowledge, Information, Rules, and Structures....Pages 77-94
The Replication Perspective on Productive Knowledge....Pages 95-121
Front Matter....Pages 123-123
Organizational Deadweight and the Internal Functioning of Japanese Firms: An Explorative Analysis of Organizational Dysfunction....Pages 125-164
Reasons for Innovation: Legitimizing Resource Mobilization for Innovation in the Cases of the Okochi Memorial Prize Winners....Pages 165-189
Category Innovation....Pages 191-208
Moore’s Law Increasing Complexity, and the Limits of Organization: The Modern Significance of Japanese Chipmakers’ Commodity DRAM Business....Pages 209-245
M&As and Corporate Performance in Japan: Transferring vs. Sharing of Control Right....Pages 247-265
International Comparison of Profitability Dispersion....Pages 267-291
International Comparison of Intangible Assets’ Disclosure and Investment Behavior....Pages 293-313
Japanese Company in the Post-Japanese System: Hoya 1985–1996....Pages 315-334
An Entrepreneurial Approach to Service Innovations: Leading Changing Lifestyles in Japan....Pages 335-355
