Managing Industrial Knowledge illuminates the complex processes at work in the creation and successful transfer of corporate knowledge. It is now generally recognized that the competitive advantages of firms depends on their ability to build, utilize and protect knowledge assets. In this volume many of the foremost international authors and pioneers of the study of knowledge in firms present their latest work and insights into organizational knowledge and innovation.

PART ONE: KNOWLEDGE, CREATION AND LEADERSHIPSECI, Ba and Leadership - Ikujiro Nonaka, Ryoko Toyama and Noboru Konno A Unified Model of Dynamic Knowledge CreationStructure and Spontaneity; Knowledge and Organization - John Seely Brown and Paul DuguidSelf-Transcending Knowledge - Claus Otto Scharmer Organizing Around Emerging RealitiesUnderstanding the Creative Process - Charlan Jeanne Nemeth and Lauren Nemeth Management of the Knowledge WorkerA Mentality Theory of Knowledge Creation and Transfer - Kaiping Peng and Satoshi Akutsu Why Some Smart People Resist New Ideas and Some Don'tPART TWO: FIRMS, MARKETS AND INNOVATIONStrategies for Managing Knowledge Assets - David J Teece The Role of Firm Structure and Industrial ContextKnowledge and Organization - Robert M GrantHow Should Knowledge Be Owned? - Charles LeadbeaterFollowing Distinctive Paths of Knowledge - Fiona E Murray Strategies for Organizational Knowledge-Building Within Science-Based FirmsThe Modularity Trap - Henry W Chesbrough and Ken Kunsunoki Innovation, Technology Phase shifts and the Resulting Limits of Virtual OrganizationsPART THREE: MANAGING KNOWLEDGE AND TRANSFORMATIONCan Knowledge Management Deliver Bottom Line Results - Charles Lucier and Janet D TorsilieriHow Tacit Knowledge Explains Organizational Renewal and Growth - Seija Kulkki and Mikko Kosonen The Case of NokiaThe Knowledge Perspective in the Xerox Group - Kazue Kikawada and Dan HolthouseTowards a Univeral Management of the Concept of Knowledge - Hirotaka TakeuchiResearch Directions for Knowledge Management - David J Teece and Ikujiro Nonako