The strategic community-based firm / Mitsuru Kodama

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: creating new business models across different technologies and industries -- Dialectical management in a large corporation: the case of innovation at NTT DoCoMo -- Managing paradox in a large corporation: challenging a vision for new-generation optics -- Dynamic view of strategy in a large corporation: challenges toward next-generation video communications -- Innovation through boundry management: the creation of a new business model -- Knowledge creation through the networks of strategic communities -- Innovation by strategic community-based firms -- Toward a strategic community-based firm

Through case-studies, the author shows how strategy, organisation and leadership in corporations that realise knowledge integration across multiple organisational boundaries, represents the dynamic view of strategy that a company needs in order to obtain organisational capability with a competitive edge.