Meso-organizations and the creation of knowledge : Yoshiya Teramoto and his work on organization and industry collaborations / edited by Caroline F. Benton, Frank-Jürgen Richter, and Toru Takai ; foreword by Ikujiro Nonaka.

Published in honor of Teramoto.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / Ikujiro Nonaka -- Introduction: The Rise of Meso-Organizations / Caroline F. Benton, Frank-Jurgen Richter and Toru Takai -- 1. Entrepreneurship as Knowledge and Social Capital Creation: Theoretical Analysis of the Startup Stage of Firms / Jin-ichiro Yamada -- 2. Composite Knowledge for High-Tech Corporations: Knowledge Evolution and Strategies in Research and Development / Syuichi Ishida -- 3. Creating Social Knowledge with Business Tricksters / Aki Nakanishi -- 4. Information Dissemination and Learning through Social Networks: The Changing Role of Personal Ties in Economic Relations in Japan / Andreas Moerke -- 5. Individual Networking for Internalizing Diverse Knowledge: A Case Study of Technology-Based Academic Societies / Kiyoshi Nosu -- 6. Open Sourcing as a Corporate Strategy: A Study of the Open Source Community from an Organizational Theoretic Perspective and the Development of R&D with External Resources / Midori Kato -- 7. Promoting Competence and Reform with Global Groups / Caroline F. Benton -- 8. Knowledge Networks and the Restructuring of Competitive Superiority / Toru Takai -- 9. Exploration and Exploitation in Federated Networks / Tomoyuki Nishimura -- 10. The Talkative Company / John B. Kidd and Frank-Jurgen Richter -- 11. Cross-Cultural Co-opetition among Organizations / Rasoava Rijamampianina and Claire Gordon-Brown -- 12. The Metastrategy: A Systematic View of the Theory of Corporate Internationalization Strategies / Rene Haak.