Managing Industrial Knowledge: Creation, Transfer and Utilization

by Ikujiro Nonaka (Editor), David J Teece (Editor)

Overview

Managing Industrial Knowledge illuminates the complex processes at work in the creation and successful transfer of corporate knowledge. It is now generally recognized that the competitive advantages of firms depends on their ability to build, utilize and protect knowledge assets. In this volume many of the foremost international authors and pioneers of the study of knowledge in firms present their latest work and insights into organizational knowledge and innovation.

In a world where markets, products, technologies, competitors, regulations, and even societies change rapidly, continuous innovation and the knowledge that produces innovation have become key. The chapters in this keynote volume shed new light on the co

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761954996
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/02/2001
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

David J. Teece is an economist and an authority on matters of industrial organization, technological change, and innovation, particularly as it relates to antitrust and competition policy and intellectual property. Teece has a Ph D in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and has held teaching and research positions at Stanford University and Oxford University. He has received eight honorary doctorates. Teece has over 30 years of experience as an active consultant performing economic, business, and financial consulting services to businesses and governments around the world. He has worked on matters in industries ranging from music recording to DRAMS, software, lumber, and petroleum, and has testified in both federal and state court, before Congress, and before the Federal Trade Commission, as well as in several international jurisdictions.
Expertise and Research Interests are Competitive Performance of Firms in the Global Marketplace, Intellectual Capital Management, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Antitrust Policy, Technology and Intellectual Property, Strategy Management, Corporate Governance, Product and Process Development, Human Capital and Dynamic Capabilities.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: KNOWLEDGE, CREATION AND LEADERSHIP
SECI, Ba and Leadership - Ikujiro Nonaka, Ryoko Toyama and Noboru Konno
A Unified Model of Dynamic Knowledge Creation
Structure and Spontaneity; Knowledge and Organization - John Seely Brown and Paul Duguid
Self-Transcending Knowledge - Claus Otto Scharmer
Organizing Around Emerging Realities
Understanding the Creative Process - Charlan Jeanne Nemeth and Lauren Nemeth
Management of the Knowledge Worker
A Mentality Theory of Knowledge Creation and Transfer - Kaiping Peng and Satoshi Akutsu
Why Some Smart People Resist New Ideas and Some Don't
PART TWO: FIRMS, MARKETS AND INNOVATION
Strategies for Managing Knowledge Assets - David J Teece
The Role of Firm Structure and Industrial Context
Knowledge and Organization - Robert M Grant
How Should Knowledge Be Owned? - Charles Leadbeater
Following Distinctive Paths of Knowledge - Fiona E Murray
Strategies for Organizational Knowledge-Building Within Science-Based Firms
The Modularity Trap - Henry W Chesbrough and Ken Kunsunoki
Innovation, Technology Phase shifts and the Resulting Limits of Virtual Organizations
PART THREE: MANAGING KNOWLEDGE AND TRANSFORMATION
Can Knowledge Management Deliver Bottom Line Results - Charles Lucier and Janet D Torsilieri
How Tacit Knowledge Explains Organizational Renewal and Growth - Seija Kulkki and Mikko Kosonen
The Case of Nokia
The Knowledge Perspective in the Xerox Group - Kazue Kikawada and Dan Holthouse
Towards a Univeral Management of the Concept of Knowledge - Hirotaka Takeuchi
Research Directions for Knowledge Management - David J Teece and Ikujiro Nonako

Editorial Reviews

‘Any JORS with an interest in knowledge management should ensure that they read this book' - Journal of the Operational Research Society

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