Knowledge Integration and Innovation : Critical Challenges Facing International Technology-Based Firms Paperback / softback
Edited by Christian (, Professor in Industrial Management, Linkoping University, and Director of the Berggren, Anna (, Associate Professor of Industrial Management, Linkoping University, and founding mem Bergek, Lars (, Professor in Innovation Management, the University of Gavle, Sweden and founding Bengtsson, Michael (, Professor of Innovation Management at CENTRIM (Centre for Research in Innovation Hobday, Jonas (, Professor at BI Norwegian School of Management and founding member of the KITE r Soderlund
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Technology-based firms continue to compete primarily on innovation, and are 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.
It 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.
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- Pages:312 pages, Figures and tables
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:24/01/2013
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- ISBN:9780199666324
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:312 pages, Figures and tables
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:24/01/2013
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- ISBN:9780199666324