Interactive Business Communities: Accelerating Corporate Innovation through Boundary Networks

In Interactive Business Communities, Mitsuru Kodama shows how a new business approach can enable managers to access, share and integrate diverse knowledge both inside and outside the corporation using Boundary Networks to operate across more formal organizational and knowledge boundaries at all levels. Business educators, researchers and senior executives responsible for strategy, particularly in high-tech industries, will find insights and ideas to tackle market and business discontinuities of the 21st century.

About the Author

Mitsuru Kodama is Professor of Innovation and Technology Management in the College of Commerce and Graduate School of Business Administration at Nihon University, Japan. Prior to joining the University he worked in marketing and as a planning engineer at KDD, NTT and NTT DoCoMo in Japan. He holds a BSc., an MSc. and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Waseda University, Japan. Professor Kodama has written seven books and over eighty refereed papers on business and management topics. He has received R&D 100 Awards in US and three Emerald Highly Commended Awards for his contributions to journals in the USA and Europe and he sits on several editorial boards.