Managing Knowledge Assets, Creativity and Innovation

Dorothy A Leonard
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Dorothy A Leonard: Harvard Business School, USA

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Abstract: This book pulls together for the first time, works on knowledge and innovation, including the implementation of new processes and products, written by Dorothy A Leonard over more than two decades. It consists of articles from journals in diverse fields (e.g. the award-winning article on Core Capabilities and Core Rigidities) and book chapters that cover the innovation process, from its inception in peoples' heads to its implementation. An underlying theme running throughout the book is managing the flow of knowledge that propels innovation — especially tacit knowledge. Such knowledge is difficult to transfer or embody in a new product, process or service. However, it is not only essential but often comprises the most valuable component in the innovation. The opening chapter, written expressly for this volume, probes the connections between tacit knowledge, creativity and innovation.

Keywords: Innovation; Creativity; Knowledge; New Product Development; Implementation; Managing Knowledge; Intrapreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
ISBN: 9789814295499
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Managing Technology and New Product Development , pp 3-9

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Ch 2 Core Capabilities and Core Rigidities: A Paradox in Managing New Product Development , pp 11-27

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Ch 3 How to Integrate Work and Deepen Expertise , pp 29-40

Dorothy A. Leonard, H. Kent Bowen, Kim B. Clark, Charles A. Holloway and Steven C. Wheelwright

Ch 4 Importing and Absorbing Technological Knowledge from outside of the Firm , pp 41-88

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Ch 5 Alliance Clusters in Multimedia: Safety Net or Entanglement? , pp 89-135

Benjamin Gomes-Cassares, Dorothy A. Leonard and D. B. Yoffie

Ch 6 Using Mentoring and Storytelling to Transfer Knowledge in the Workplace , pp 137-158

Walter C. Swap, Dorothy A. Leonard, Mimi Shields and Lisa Abrams

Ch 7 Deep Smarts , pp 159-170

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Ch 8 Building Deep Smarts Through Experience , pp 171-201

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Ch 9 Expertise , pp 203-234

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Ch 10 Experts as Negative Opinion Leaders in the Diffusion of a Technological Innovation , pp 235-249

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Ch 11 Creative Abrasion , pp 251-286

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Ch 12 Putting Your Company's Whole Brain to Work , pp 287-299

Dorothy A. Leonard and Susaan Straus

Ch 13 The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Group Innovation , pp 301-323

Dorothy A. Leonard and Sylvia Sensiper

Ch 14 Virtual Teams: Using Communications Technology to Manage Geographically Dispersed Development Groups , pp 325-340

Dorothy A. Leonard, Paul Brands, Amy Edmondson, Justine Fenwick, S. P. Bradley and R. L. Nolan

Ch 15 Market Research in Product Development , pp 341-354

Dorothy A. Leonard, K. Ichijo and I. Nonaka

Ch 16 Spark Innovation through Empathic Design , pp 355-369

Dorothy A. Leonard and Jeffrey Rayport

Ch 17 Designing the Psychological Environment , pp 371-420

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Ch 18 The Diffusion and Implementation of Innovations , pp 423-428

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Ch 19 Implementation as Mutual Adaptation of Technology and Organization , pp 429-447

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Ch 20 Implementing New Production Technologies: Exercises in Corporate Learning , pp 449-479

Dorothy A. Leonard, M. A. Von Glinow and S. A. Mohrman

Ch 21 Managerial Influence in the Implementation of a New Technology , pp 481-496

Dorothy A. Leonard and Isabelle Deschamps

Ch 22 Developer-User Interaction and User Satisfaction in Internal Technology Transfer , pp 497-513

Dorothy A. Leonard and Deepak K. Sinha

Ch 23 Diffusing Innovations When the Users Are Not the Choosers: The Case of Dentists , pp 515-539

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Ch 24 Innovation as a Knowledge Generation and Transfer Process , pp 541-570

Dorothy A. Leonard, A. Singhal and J. Dearing

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