Knowledge Integration and Innovation
Critical Challenges Facing International Technology-Based Firms
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 11 August 2011
- ISBN 9780199693924
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages310 pages
- Size 237x163x22 mm
- Weight 628 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Innovation processes have increasingly become interdisciplinary, collaborative, inter-organizational, and international. Based on empirical studies, this book examines how this integration of knowledge has become essential to firms in enabling innovation, particularly crucial in technology-based industries.
MoreLong description:
Technology-based firms continue to compete primarily on innovation, and one continuously required to present new solutions to an exacting market. As technological complexity and specialization intensifies, firms increasingly need to integrate and co-ordinate knowledge by means of project groups, diversified organizations, inter-organizational partnerships, and strategic alliances. Innovation processes have progressively become interdisciplinary, collaborative, inter-organizational, and international, and a firm's ability to synthesize knowledge across disciplines, organizations, and geographical locations has a major influence on its viability and success.
This book demonstrates how knowledge integration is crucial in facilitating innovation within modern firms. This book provides original, detailed empirical studies of prerequisites, mechanisms, and outcomes of knowledge integration processes on several organizational levels, from key individuals, projects, and internal organizations, to collaboration between firms. It stresses the need to understand knowledge integration as a multi-level phenomenon, which requires a broad repertoire of organizational and technical means. It further clarifies the need for strong internal capabilities for exploiting external knowledge, reveals how costs of knowledge integration affect outcomes and strategic decisions, and discusses the managerial implications of fostering knowledge integration, providing practical guidance and support for managers of knowledge integration in high technology enterprises.
Well written and easily readable ... Managers will profit from the recommendations, if only in the sense to widen their perspectives, and researchers with interests in knowledge management and interface management gain access to a particular stream of knowledge integration research together with some interesting proposals for further study.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Exploring Knowledge Integration and Innovation
Knowledge Integration and Innovation: A Survey of the Field
Part I: People and Processes
Knowledge Integration and Creation in Projects: Towards a Progressive Epistemology
Inventors as Innovators and Knowledge Integrators
Participants in the Process of Knowledge Integration
Part II: Projects and Partnerships
Knowledge Integration Processes in New Product Development: on the Dynamics of Deadlines and Architectures
Knowledge Integration in Inter-firm R&D Collaboration: How do Firms Manage Problems of Coordination and Cooperation?
Knowledge Integration in a P-form Corporation: Project Epochs in the Evolution of Asea/ABB 1945-2000.
Part III: Strategies and Outcomes
Knowledge Integration Challenges when Outsourcing Manufacturing
Trade-Offs in Make-Buy Decisions: Exploring Operating Realities of Knowledge Integration and Innovation
Creative Accumulation: Integrating New and Established Technologies in Periods of Discontinuous Change
Conclusion
Lessons and Insights for Managers
