The Evolution of Business Knowledge

Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 9
List of Tables......Page 11
Notes on Contributors......Page 13
1. Introduction......Page 18
Part I. Management and Organizational Knowledge......Page 38
2. The Evolution of Business Knowledge in Smaller Firms......Page 40
3. Executive Directors’ Knowledge......Page 68
4. Organizational Learning and Dynamic Capabilities......Page 88
5. What Knowledge or Knowledge for What? Reforming/Reinventing the Business School......Page 106
Part II. Innovation and Design Processes......Page 130
6. Knowledge Brokering in High-Tech Start-Ups......Page 132
7. Knowledge Integration and Resource Selection in the UK Film Industry......Page 154
8. The Evolution of Biomedical Knowledge: Interactive Innovation in the United Kingdom and United States......Page 178
9. Managing Knowledge Representation in Design......Page 206
10. Evaluation Practices in the Commercialization of Early Stage Technology: The Role of Trust......Page 232
Part III. Inter-Organizational Relationships......Page 254
11. Rethinking the Role of Management Consultants as Disseminators of Business Knowledge: Knowledge Flows, Directions, and Conditions in Consulting Projects......Page 256
12. Antagonism, Knowledge, and Innovation: Organizations and Corporate Social Responsibility......Page 276
13. Screenworlds: Information Technology and the Performance of Business Knowledge......Page 290
Part IV. Making Knowledge an Asset......Page 310
14. Intellectual Property Activity by Service Sector and Manufacturing Firms in the United Kingdom, 1996–2000......Page 312
15. Facilitating Innovation through the Measurement and Management of Intangibles......Page 336
16. The Uses of History as Corporate Knowledge......Page 356
17. Conclusions......Page 374
B......Page 380
C......Page 381
D......Page 382
E......Page 383
G......Page 384
I......Page 385
K......Page 386
N......Page 387
R......Page 388
S......Page 389
Z......Page 390