Strategic Community-based Firm

This book describes the "strategic community" concept, which integrates knowledge possessed by people, groups, or organizations across organizational boundaries to create new products and services, or new business models. Through detailed case studies of Japanese high-tech industries, including joint product innovation with US-based companies, the author suggests that strategy, organization and leadership that realizes knowledge integration across multiple organizational boundaries represents the dynamic view of strategy that a company needs to obtain organizational capability with a competitive edge.

This book describes the "strategic community" concept, which integrates knowledge possessed by people, groups, or organizations across organizational boundaries to create new products and services, or new business models. Through detailed case studies of Japanese high-tech industries, including joint product innovation with US-based companies, the author suggests that strategy, organization and leadership that realizes knowledge integration across multiple organizational boundaries represents the dynamic view of strategy that a company needs to obtain organizational capability with a competitive edge.

MITSURU KODAMA is Professor of Information and Management in the College of Commerce and Graduate School of Business Administration at Nihon University, Japan. He has worked as a marketer, a planning engineer and an innovation management researcher. His research interests focus on innovation, technology management, knowledge management and organizational structure.