Dynamics of Knowledge, Corporate Systems and Innovation

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Itami, Hiroyuki (Editor), Kusunoki, Ken (Editor), Numagami, Tsuyoshi (Editor), Takeishi, Akira (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2010.
• Subjects: Business.; Management science.; Organization.; Planning.; Management.; Industrial management.; Business and Management.; Innovation/Technology Management.; Business and Management, general.

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 t...

Table of Contents:

• Perspectives
• Organization Accumulates and Market Utilizes: A Framework of Knowledge-Corporate System-Innovation Dynamics
• Boundaries of Innovation and Social Consensus Building: Challenges for Japanese Firms
• Redefining Innovation as System Re-Definition
• Knowledge, Information, Rules, and Structures
• The Replication Perspective on Productive Knowledge
• Issues
• Organizational Deadweight and the Internal Functioning of Japanese Firms: An Explorative Analysis of Organizational Dysfunction
• Reasons for Innovation: Legitimizing Resource Mobilization for Innovation in the Cases of the Okochi Memorial Prize Winners
• Category Innovation
• Moore’s Law Increasing Complexity, and the Limits of Organization: The Modern Significance of Japanese Chipmakers’ Commodity DRAM Business
• M&As and Corporate Performance in Japan: Transferring vs. Sharing of Control Right
• International Comparison of Profitability Dispersion
• International Comparison of Intangible Assets’ Disclosure and Investment Behavior
• Japanese Company in the Post-Japanese System: Hoya 1985–1996
• An Entrepreneurial Approach to Service Innovations: Leading Changing Lifestyles in Japan.