Dynamics of Knowledge, Corporate Systems and Innovation

1. Organization Accumulates and Market Utilizes: A Framework of Knowledge-Corporate System-Innovation Dynamics
Hiroyuki Itami

2. Boundaries of Innovation and Social Consensus Building: Challenges for Japanese Firms
Akira Takeishi, Tsuyoshi Numagami

3. Redefining Innovation as System Re-Definition
Ken Kusunoki, Yaichi Aoshima

4. Knowledge, Information, Rules, and Structures
Bruce Kogut

5. The Replication Perspective on Productive Knowledge
Sidney G. Winter

6. Organizational Deadweight and the Internal Functioning of Japanese Firms: An Explorative Analysis of Organizational Dysfunction
Toshihiko Kato, Masaru Karube, Tsuyoshi Numagami

7. Reasons for Innovation: Legitimizing Resource Mobilization for Innovation in the Cases of the Okochi Memorial Prize Winners
Akira Takeishi, Yaichi Aoshima, Masaru Karube

8. Category Innovation
Ken Kusunoki, Satoshi Akutsu

9. Moore’s Law Increasing Complexity, and the Limits of Organization: The Modern Significance of Japanese Chipmakers’ Commodity DRAM Business
Hiroyuki Chuma, Norikazu Hashimoto

10. M&As and Corporate Performance in Japan: Transferring vs. Sharing of Control Right
Sadao Nagaoka

11. International Comparison of Profitability Dispersion
Makoto Nakano

12. International Comparison of Intangible Assets’ Disclosure and Investment Behavior
Kunio Ito, Tetsuyuki Kagaya

13. Japanese Company in the Post-Japanese System: Hoya 1985–1996
Yoshitaka Suzuki

14. An Entrepreneurial Approach to Service Innovations: Leading Changing Lifestyles in Japan
Yoshinori Fujikawa, Carl Kay

Avainsanat: Economics/Management Science, Organization/Planning, Technology Management, Business/Management Science, general