As an ever-increasing amount of innovation takes place within networks, companies are collaborating in developing and marketing new products, services and practices. This in turn requires knowledge to flow across company boundaries. This book demonstrates how companies encourage this knowledge to flow in networks that can involve dozens of partners. Substantiated by five in-depth case studies of innovative networks, the authors identify and analyse the solutions implemented by companies in order to meet the key knowledge management challenges they encounter. Theoretical and management implications of the study are then defined. Connecting the organization theory of networks with knowledge management theory, this book will be of great interest to academics and students in business administration, especially in the areas of organization, strategy, supply chains and knowledge management.
Author(s): Ard-Pieter De Man
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 215
COVER......Page 1
Copyright......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Figures......Page 6
Tables......Page 7
Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
1. Knowledge and innovation in networks: a conceptual framework......Page 13
2. Networks as the organization form of the knowledge economy......Page 27
3. Organizing knowledge sharing in networks: the theory......Page 44
4. Meeting Moore's law: high velocity knowledge development in the supplier network of ASML......Page 66
5. The Future Store Initiative: shopping for knowledge/knowledge for shopping......Page 96
6. Pig-breeding as a knowledge-intensive sector......Page 115
7. Making horticulture networks bloom......Page 134
8. The fibres that hold an innovation network: an analysis of knowledge-sharing in the Glare network......Page 157
9. Best practices: key lessons from the cases......Page 186
10. A management agenda......Page 209
Index......Page 221
