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Knowledge Integration and Innovation
Critical Challenges Facing International Technology-Based Firms
Edited by Christian Berggren, Anna Bergek, Lars Bengtsson, Michael Hobday, and Jonas Söderlund
312 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-966632-4
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Paperback
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24 January 2013
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- In-depth analysis of knowledge integration processes, prerequisites, and outcomes
- Contextual empirical studies covering individuals and project teams, as well as at firm and inter-firm levels
- Demonstrates interplay between internal and external knowledge assets and capabilities
- Detailed analysis of literature on knowledge management and integration
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.Readership: Academics, researchers, and graduate students in Business, Management, and Engineering; policy makers and consultants
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Edited by Christian Berggren, Professor in Industrial Management, Linköping University, and Director of the KITE research programme, Anna Bergek, Associate Professor of Industrial Management, Linköping University, and founding member of the KITE research programme, Lars Bengtsson, Professor in Innovation Management, the University of Gävle, Sweden and founding member and research leader of the KITE research programme, Michael Hobday, Professor of Innovation Management at CENTRIM (Centre for Research in Innovation Management), Brighton University, and Jonas Söderlund, Professor at BI Norwegian School of Management and founding member of the KITE research
programme Christian Berggren is Professor of Industrial Management, Linköping University, and Director of the KITE research programme. He has written or co-authored several books on production and product development in international firms, such as The Volvo experience (MacMillan, 1992), The Resilience of Corporate Japan (Sage, 1997), Being local world-wide - ABB and the challenge of global management (Cornell, 1999), as well as many publications in journals such as Creativity and Innovation Management, Industrial and Corporate Change, Research Policy, R&D Management, Sloan Management Review, Technology Analysis, and Strategic Management and Technovation.
Anna Bergek is Associate Professor of Industrial Management, Linköping University, and founding member of the KITE research programme. She has published articles on industry dynamics, firm strategy in relation to technical change, and innovation and energy policy in journals such as Energy Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Research Policy, Technovation, and Technology Analysis & Strategic Management.
Lars Bengtsson is Professor of Innovation Management at the Univeristy of Gävle and Professor within a PhD school at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. He is a founding member of the KITE research programme and has published many articles and books on the subjects of continuous improvements, manufacturing strategies, and outsourcing.
Michael Hobday is Professor of Innovation Management at CENTRIM (Centre for Research in Innovation Management), Brighton Univeristy. As well as many journal publications, he is the author of various books including Innovation in East Asia: The Challenge to Japan (Edward Elgar, 1997), co-author of The Business of Projects: Managing Innovation in Complex Products and Systems (with Andrew Davies, CUP, 2005), and co-editor of The Business of Systems Integration (with Andrea Prencipe and Andrew Davies, OUP, 2003).
Jonas Söderlund is Professor at BI Norwegian School of Management and founding member of the KITE research programme. He has researched and published widely on the management and organization of projects and project-based firms and the evolution of project competence, including papers in Organization Studies, Human Resource Management, International Journal of Innovation Management, and International Business Review. He is the author or co-author of five books and one of the editors of The Oxford Handbook of Project Management.
Contributors:
Hans Andersson, Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden.
Mattias Axelson, Assistant Professor, Centre for Innovation and Operations Management, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden.
Marie Bengtsson, Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden.
Karin Bredin, Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden.
Mandar Dabhilkar, Research Fellow, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden and Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Economics and
Management, KTH, Sweden.
Cecilia Enberg, Assistant Professor, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden.
Robin von Haartman, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Engineering and Sustainable Development, University of Gävle, Sweden.
Mattias Johansson, Research Fellow, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden.
Nicolette Lakemond, Associate Professor, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden.
Lars Lindkvist, Professor, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden.
Thomas Magnusson, Associate Professor, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden.
Fredrik Tell, Professor, Department of
Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden.
Linnea Wahlstedt, PhD Candidate, Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden
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Review(s) from previous edition
"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. - Klaus Brockhoff, R&D Management
"This book is an impressive achievement and tribute to the power of multidisciplinary longitudinal research. Through penetrating case studies and systematic literature reviews, the KITE researchers make an outstanding contribution to knowledge integration and innovation in businesses and industries" - Andrew Van de Ven, University of Minnesota
"This book offers the first systematic account of what we currently know about knowledge integration in organizations and its link with innovation. In addition to synthesizing this rapidly developing field of research in a structured and accessible way, the authors extend our understanding of knowledge integration in several important directions. In particular, the book explores the process of knowledge integration among teams, the role of knowledge integration in innovation, how knowledge integration occurs across separate firms, and the characteristics of knowledge integration in project-based organizations. A refreshing feature of the book is the linkage it provides between scholarly developments in knowledge integration and practical aspects of knowledge management in organizations."
- Robert M. Grant, Eni Professor of Strategic Management, Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
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Introduction
1: Christian Berggren, Anna Bergek, Lars Bengtsson and Jonas Söderlund: Exploring Knowledge Integration and Innovation
2: Fredrik Tell: Knowledge Integration and Innovation: A Survey of the Field
Part I: People and Processes
3: Lars Lindkvist, Marie Bengtsson and Linnea Wahlstedt: Knowledge Integration and Creation in Projects: Towards a Progressive Epistemology
5: Hans Andersson and Christian Berggren: Inventors as Innovators and Knowledge Integrators
6: Jonas Söderlund and Karin Bredin: Participants in the Process of Knowledge Integration
Part II: Projects and Partnerships
6: Thomas Magnusson and Nicolette Lakemond: Knowledge Integration Processes in New Product Development: on the Dynamics of Deadlines and Architectures
7: Mattias Johansson, Mattias Axelson, Cecilia Enberg and Fredrik Tell: Knowledge Integration in Inter-firm R&D Collaboration: How do Firms Manage Problems of Coordination and Cooperation?
8: Jonas Söderlund and Fredrik Tell: Knowledge Integration in a P-form Corporation: Project Epochs in the Evolution of Asea/ABB 1945-2000.
Part III: Strategies and Outcomes
9: Lars Bengtsson, Mandar Dabhilkar and Robin von Haartman: Knowledge Integration Challenges when Outsourcing Manufacturing
10: Mandar Dabhilkar and Lars Bengtsson: Trade-Offs in Make-Buy Decisions: Exploring Operating Realities of Knowledge Integration and Innovation
11: Anna Bergek, Christian Berggren and Thomas Magnusson: Creative Accumulation: Integrating New and Established Technologies in Periods of Discontinuous Change
Conclusion
12: Mike Hobday and Anna Bergek: Lessons and Insights for Managers
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