Overview

Part 1: Perspectives: Organization Accumulates, Market Utilizes: A Framework of Knowledge-Corporate System-Innovation Dynamics, H. Itami.- Boundaries of Innovation and Social Consensus: Challenge for Japanese Firms, A. Takeishi & T. Numagami.- Redefining Innovation as System Re-definition, K. Kusunoki & Y. Aoshima.- Knowledge, Information, Rules, and Structures, B. Kogut.- The Replication Perspective on Productive Knowledge, S.G. Winter.- Part 2: Issues: Organizational Deadweight and the Internal Functioning of Japanese Firms: An Explorative Analysis on Organizational Dysfunction, T. Kato, M. Karube, & T. Numagami.- Reasons for Innovation: Ligitimizing Resource Mobilization for Innovation in the Cases of Okochi Memorial Prize Winners, A. Takeishi, Y. Aoshima, & M. Karube.- Category Innovation, K. Kusunoki & S. Akutsu.- Moore's Law, Increasing Complexity and Limits of Organization: Modern Significance of Japanese Chipmakers' Commodity DRAM Business, H. Chuma & N. Hashimoto.- Do M&As Facilitate Corporate Growth?: Transferring vs. Sharing Control, S. Nagaoka.- International Comparison of Profitability Dispersion, M. Nakano.- International Comparison of Intangible Assets' Disclosure and Investment Behavior, K. Ito & T. Kagaya.- Japanese Company in the Post-Japanese System: Hoya 1985-1996, Y. Suzuki.- An Entrepreneurial Approach to Service Innovations: Leading Changing Lifestyles in Japan, Y. Fujikawa & C. Kay.