Dynamics of Knowledge, Corporate Systems and Innovation

edited by Hiroyuki Itami, Ken Kusunoki, Tsuyoshi Numagami, Akira Takeishi

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

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Year of publication:	2010
Authors:	Itami, Hiroyuki
Other Persons:	Kusunoki, Ken (contributor) ; Numagami, Tsuyoshi (contributor) ; Takeishi, Akira (contributor)
Publisher:	Berlin : Springer
Subject:	Innovation \| Wissensmanagement \| Knowledge management \| Innovationsmanagement \| Innovation management \| Unternehmenserfolg \| Firm performance \| Japan \| Unternehmensentwicklung
Description of contents:	Table of Contents [d-nb.info] ; Description [zbmath.org]

Extent:	Online-Ressource (X, 358p. 72 illus, digital)
Series:	SpringerLink / Bücher
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Konferenzschrift
Language:	English
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references Papers from a conference Preface; Contents; Contributors; Part I Perspectives; 1 Organization Accumulates and Market Utilizes: A Framework of Knowledge-Corporate System-Innovation Dynamics; 1.1 Corporate System as the Engine of Knowledge-Innovation Dynamics; 1.1.1 Our Research Theme for the Twenty-First Century COE Program; 1.1.2 Importance of Corporate System; 1.2 Conceptual Framework; 1.2.1 Conceptual Framework of Knowledge-Corporate System-Innovation Dynamics; 1.2.2 Formation of Open Knowledge Base; 1.2.3 Learning Activity by the Corporate Organization; 1.3 Dynamics of Accumulation and Dynamics of Utilization 1.3.1 Two Dynamics1.3.2 Organization Accumulates and Market Utilizes; 1.3.3 Dilemmas Between Two Dynamics; 1.4 Market-Oriented Corporate System and Organization-Oriented Corporate System: US Versus Japan; 1.4.1 M System and O System; 1.4.2 US Experiments and Japan Develops; 1.4.3 Weakness; 1.5 From Here to Where?; 1.5.1 US as the Market Arena for the World; 1.5.2 Where can Japan Go?; References; 2 Boundaries of Innovation and Social Consensus Building: Challenges for Japanese Firms; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Types of Innovation by Boundary; 2.2.1 Boundaries of Innovation: Four Levels 2.2.2 Determinants of Innovation2.3 Boundaries of Innovation and Social Consensus Building; 2.3.1 Coordination and Integration Mechanisms of the Japanese Corporate System; 2.3.2 Innovation as Social Consensus Building; 2.3.3 Consensus Building Beyond Community and Limitation of Japanese Firms; 2.4 Innovation Challenges for Japanese Firms; 2.4.1 Importance of Innovation Between Different Markets; 2.4.2 Organizational Problems from Within; 2.4.3 Challenges for Japanese Firms; References; 3 Redefining Innovation as System Re-Definition; 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Conceptual Understanding of Combinations in Product Systems3.2.1 Function; 3.2.2 Physical Parameters; 3.2.3 Value; 3.3 Dimensions of Product Innovation; 3.3.1 Changes in Internal System; 3.3.2 Changes in External System; 3.4 Typology of Innovation; 3.4.1 Liner Innovations; 3.4.2 System Reconfiguration; 3.4.3 Category Creation; 3.5 Discussion and Implications; 3.5.1 Mapping Models of Innovation; 3.5.2 Difficulties Associated with Innovation; 3.5.3 Technological Progress Smothers Innovation; 3.5.4 Challenges for Japanese firms; 3.6 Conclusion; References 4 Knowledge, Information, Rules, and Structures4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Prefatory Autobiographical Remarks; 4.3 Information and Knowledge; 4.4 Practice and Ontology; 4.5 Do Organizations Think?; 4.6 Self-Organization; 4.7 Conclusions; References; 5 The Replication Perspective on Productive Knowledge; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Conceptual Background; 5.3 Examples; 5.4 The Sources of Replication Difficulty; 5.5 Perspectives on Replication Practice; References; Part II Issues 6 Organizational Deadweight and the Internal Functioning of Japanese Firms: An Explorative Analysis of Organizational Dysfunction
ISBN:	978-3-642-04480-9 ; 978-3-642-04479-3
Other identifiers:	10.1007/978-3-642-04480-9 [DOI]
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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