Managing Knowledge Integration Across Boundaries

Author:   Fredrik Tell (Professor in Business Administration, Professor in Business Administration, Linköping University) ,  Christian Berggren (Professor in Industrial Management, Professor in Industrial Management, Linköping University) ,  Stefano Brusoni (Professor of Technology and Innovation Management, Professor of Technology and Innovation Management, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) ,  Andrew Van de Ven (Professor of Organisational Innovation and Change, Professor of Organisational Innovation and Change, Carlson School of the University of Minnesota)
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Pages:   326
Publication Date:   15 December 2016
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Author:   Fredrik Tell (Professor in Business Administration, Professor in Business Administration, Linköping University) ,  Christian Berggren (Professor in Industrial Management, Professor in Industrial Management, Linköping University) ,  Stefano Brusoni (Professor of Technology and Innovation Management, Professor of Technology and Innovation Management, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) ,  Andrew Van de Ven (Professor of Organisational Innovation and Change, Professor of Organisational Innovation and Change, Carlson School of the University of Minnesota)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.40cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.620kg
ISBN:  

9780198785972


ISBN 10:   0198785976
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   15 December 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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1: Fredrik Tell, Christian Berggren, Stefano Brusoni, and Andrew Van de Ven: Introduction: Managing Knowledge Integration Across Boundaries Part I: Conceptual Underpinnings 2: Fredrik Tell: Managing Across Knowledge Boundaries 3: Steven Postrel: Effective Management Of Collective Design Processes: Knowledge Profiles and the Sequential Ordering of Tasks 4: Christian Berggren, Jörg Sydow, and Fredrik Tell: Relating Knowledge Integration and Absorptive Capacity: Knowledge Boundaries And Reflective Agency in Path-Dependent Processes 5: Lars Lindkvist and Marie Bengtsson: Bridging the Individual-To-Organization Divide: A Knowledge Creation Approach Part II: Boundary Crossing Knowledge Integration in Context 6: Lars Bengtsson, Nicolette Lakemond, Keld Laursen, and Fredrik Tell: Open Innovation: Managing Knowledge Integration Across Multiple Boundaries 7: Federica Ceci and Andrea Prencipe: Division of Labour, Supplier Relationships and Knowledge Integration 8: Fabrizio Castelluci and Gianluca Carnabuci: Knowledge, Uncertainty, and the Boundaries of the Firm: Evidence from a Study of Formula One Racing Constructors, 1950-2000 9: Solmaz Filiz Karabag and Christian Berggren: Struggling with Knowledge Boundaries and Stickiness: Case Studies of Innovating Firms in an Emerging Economy 10: Markus Perkmann: How Boundary Organizations Facilitate Collaboration Across Diverse Communities 11: Dmitrijs Kravcenko and Jacky Swan: Talking Through Objects: The Socio-Political Dynamics Embodied in Boundary Objects in Architectural Work 12: Annapoornima M. Subramanian, Kwanghui Lim and Pek-hooi Soh: Bridging Scientists And Informal R&D Collaborations: Implications for Firm-Level Knowledge Integration and Patent Performance 13: Karin Bredin, Cecilia Enberg, Camilla Niss and Jonas Söderlund: Knowledge Integration at Work: Individual Project Competence in Agile Projects 14: Sirkka L. Jarvenpaa and Yongsuk Kim: Retrieval of Knowledge Across Team Boundaries: Role of Transactive Memory Systems in a Restructuring Global Organization 15: Andrew H. Van de Ven and Shaker A. Zahra: Boundary Spanning, Boundary Objects, and Innovation

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While it is popular to say that we live in an increasingly 'boundary-less' world, in reality, people in organizations face numerous boundaries in their everyday workgeographic, functional, divisional, cultural, intellectual, etc. This book offers both theoretical and practical insights into how people can manage across or through these boundaries in order to integrate knowledge. Sarah Kaplan, Professor of Strategic Management Rotman School, University of Toronto In the age of open innovation, it is clearer than ever that no firm is an 'island'. However, that important truth does not negate another fundamental property that boundarieswhether between firms, work groups, or national bordershave consequences for the flow of knowledge. This volume by Tell, Berggren, Brusoni, and Van de Ven provide a conceptually sophisticated and empirically rich account of these tensions and challenges. Daniel Levinthal, Reginald H. Jones Professor of Corporate Strategy, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Knowledge may be power, but fragmented knowledge can be disempowering. Finding ways to integrate increasingly specialized, distributed and incomplete knowledge across boundaries is one of the most pressing issues in late modern societieshardly any social or economic problem is effectively addressed unless diverse streams of knowledge are systematically shared and integrated. This is the best book I have seen on this important topic. There is much to admire in it: the diversity of perspectives, the empirical richness, and the theoretical robustness are all evident. It breaks new ground in how we understand knowledge integration. Haridimos Tsoukas, The Columbia Ship Management Professor of Strategic Management, University of Cyprus and Distinguished Research Environment Professor of Organization Studies, University of Warwick


While it is popular to say that we live in an increasingly 'boundary-less' world, in reality, people in organizations face numerous boundaries in their everyday workgeographic, functional, divisional, cultural, intellectual, etc. This book offers both theoretical and practical insights into how people can manage across or through these boundaries in order to integrate knowledge. * Sarah Kaplan, Professor of Strategic Management Rotman School, University of Toronto * In the age of open innovation, it is clearer than ever that no firm is an 'island'. However, that important truth does not negate another fundamental property that boundarieswhether between firms, work groups, or national bordershave consequences for the flow of knowledge. This volume by Tell, Berggren, Brusoni, and Van de Ven provide a conceptually sophisticated and empirically rich account of these tensions and challenges. * Daniel Levinthal, Reginald H. Jones Professor of Corporate Strategy, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania * Knowledge may be power, but fragmented knowledge can be disempowering. Finding ways to integrate increasingly specialized, distributed and incomplete knowledge across boundaries is one of the most pressing issues in late modern societieshardly any social or economic problem is effectively addressed unless diverse streams of knowledge are systematically shared and integrated. This is the best book I have seen on this important topic. There is much to admire in it: the diversity of perspectives, the empirical richness, and the theoretical robustness are all evident. It breaks new ground in how we understand knowledge integration. * Haridimos Tsoukas, The Columbia Ship Management Professor of Strategic Management, University of Cyprus and Distinguished Research Environment Professor of Organization Studies, University of Warwick *


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Fredrik Tell is Professor in Business Administration at Linköping University and Director of the KITE Research Group. His research revolves around implications of innovation and knowledge integration for firm strategies, competitiveness and organization. His research has been presented as book chapters in a number of edited volumes and as research articles in journals such as Creativity and Innovation Management, Industrial and Corporate Change, and International Journal of Project Management to name a few. He currently serves as one of the editors of Industrial and Corporate Change (UK & Scandinavia). Christian Berggren is Professor in Industrial Management at Linköping University and served as director for the KITE program during her first four years. He has been involved in international debates regarding industry, knowledge and innovation since the early 1990s, critiquing lean production-rhetoric, as well as disruptive innovation theories, and proposing creative accumulation as an alternative. Currently he focuses on studies of innovators in emerging economies, and the technology and policy challenges involved in sustainability transitions, in particular in the automotive industry. His work has appeared in several books and various journals like Research Policy, Industrial and Corporate Change, Sloan Management Review, World Development, Ecological Economics, Journal of Business Research amoung others. Stefano Brusoni is Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich). His core research lies in understanding how organizations and individual combine and integrate dispersed knowledge in order to become routinely innovative. His work has appeared in various journals such as Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Research Policy, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Studies, Industrial and Corporate Change. He is Editor (Continental Europe) of Industrial and Corporate Change, and member of the Editorial Board of Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Academy of Management Discoveries. He is also Chair of the Knowledge and Innovation IG of the Strategic Management Society. Andrew Van de Ven is Vernon H. Heath Professor of Organizational Innovation and Change in the Carlson School of the University of Minnesota. Van de Ven's research over the years has dealt with the Nominal Group brainstorming technique, program planning, organization design, processes of organizational innovation and change, and methods of engaged scholarship. He is co-author of 12 books, including: The Innovation Journey (1999, 2008), Organization Change and Innovation Processes (2000), Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation (2004), and Engaged Scholarship (2007) all with Oxford University Press. During 2000-2001 Van de Ven was President of the Academy of Management. He currently is serving as founding editor of the Academy of Management Discoveries.

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