Interactive business communities : accelerating corporate innovation through boundary networks / Mitsuru Kodama.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Era of Convergenceand Collaboration; Part 1: Background and Theoretical Framework; 1 Convergence and Collaboration; 2 Boundary Vision and Interactive Business Communities; 4 Hybrid Innovation in the Semiconductor Industry; 5 Chunghwa Telecom's Hybrid Innovation; 6 HTC's Strategy Transformation -- Strategies for Building a Company Brand; 7 Technology Integration through Boundary Vision; Part 3: Discussion and Conclusion; 8 IBC and Boundary Networks Lead the Way to Innovation; 9 Conclusions -- Creating Knowledge Integration Firms.

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 Architects 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.