Kuniyoshi Urabe & John Child 
Innovation and Management [PDF ebook] 
International Comparisons

Frontmatter — Preface — Contents — Table A (List of Committee Members) — Table B (List of Speakers) — Table C (Commentators’ List) — Part I. Innovation under Japanese Management — Innovation and the Japanese Management System — The Japanese Corporate System and Technology Accumulation — Dynamic Synergy and Top Management Leadership: Strategie Innovation in Japanese Companies — A Comparative Evolutionary Perspective on Strategy-Making: Advantages and Limitations of the Japanese Approach — Novel Product Concepts from Lead Users — Part II. Process of Innovation — Factors Affecting the Creativity of Organizations – An Approach from the Analysis of New Product Development — Technology Bunching and Industrial Strategies — Part III. Innovation and Organizational Change — Strategy Making as Craft — Management of Change in the Firm – Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Evidence — Restructuring Mature Industries: The Challenge for Europe — On the Inter-Relation Between Large and Small Enterprises in a Socialist Economy: The Case of the GDR — Part IV. Impact of Information Technology and Micro-Electronics — Information Technology and Organization — High Technology and Its Impact on Business Management — Adapting Organizations to Micro-Electronics – and Micro-Electronics to Organizations: Experiences in the Federal Republic of Germany — Technology, Innovation and Labour-Management Strategies — Research Note — Development of the Studies of Socialist Enterprise in Japan and “Innovation” of the Socialist Enterprise — The Authors — Backmatter