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Meso-Organizations and the Creation of Knowledge: Yoshiya Teramoto and His Work on Organization and Industry Collaborations »

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Authors: Caroline Benton (Editor), Frank Richter (Editor), Frank-Jurgen Richter (Editor), Frank-Jürgen Richter (Editor), Tohru Takai
ISBN-13: 9781567206135, ISBN-10: 1567206131
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
Date Published: March 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Caroline Benton

CAROLINE F. BENTON is Professor of Organizational Behavior at the MBA Programme validated by the University of Wales in Japan.

FRANK-JURGEN RICHTER is Director, Asia, of the World Economic Forum, Geneva. He is the author of Redesigning Asian Business: In the Aftermath of Crisis (Quorum Books, 2002).

TORU TAKAI is Professor of Strategic Management at the Faculty of Commerce, Nihon University.

Book Synopsis

Creates an analytical framework for management of emerging forms of inter-organizational collaboration.

	Foreword
	Introduction: The Rise of Meso-Organizations
1	Entrepreneurship as Knowledge and Social Capital Creation: Theoretical Analysis of the Startup Stage of Firms	3
2	Composite Knowledge for High-Tech Corporations: Knowledge Evolution and Strategies in Research and Development	37
3	Creating Social Knowledge with Business Tricksters	61
4	Information Dissemination and Learning through Social Networks: The Changing Role of Personal Ties in Economic Relations in Japan	85
5	Individual Networking for Internalizing Diverse Knowledge: A Case Study of Technology-Based Academic Societies	119
6	Open Sourcing as a Corporate Strategy: A Study of the Open Source Community from an Organizational Theoretic Perspective and the Development of R&D with External Resources	139
7	Promoting Competence and Reform with Global Groups	167
8	Knowledge Networks and the Restructuring of Competitive Superiority	195
9	Exploration and Exploitation in Federated Networks	217
10	The Talkative Company	243
11	Cross-Cultural Co-opetition among Organizations	277
12	The Metastrategy: A Systematic View of the Theory of Corporate Internationalization Strategies	295
	Index	311
	About the Contributors	317