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Dynamics of Knowledge, Corporate Systems and Innovation Contents Part I Perspectives 1 Organization Accumulates and Market Utilizes: A Framework of Knowledge-Corporate System-Innovation Dynamics ...................................................................... 3 Hiroyuki Itami 2 Boundaries of Innovation and Social Consensus Building: Challenges for Japanese Firms .................................................................. 25 Akira Takeishi and Tsuyoshi Numagami 3 Redefining Innovation as System Re-Definition .......................................... 43 Ken Kusunoki and Yaichi Aoshima 4 Knowledge, Information, Rules, and Structures ......................................... 77 Bruce Kogut 5 The Replication Perspective on Productive Knowledge .............................. 95 Sidney G. Winter Part II Issues 6 Organizational Deadweight and the Internai Functioning of Japanese Firms: An Explorative Analysis of Organizational Dysfunction ................................................................................................ 125 Toshihiko Kato, Masaru Karube, and Tsuyoshi Numagami 7 Reasons for Innovation: Legitimizing Resource Mobilization for Innovation in the Cases of the Okochi Memorial Prize Winners .......................................................................... 165 Akira Takeishi, Yaichi Aoshima, and Masaru Karube 8 Category Innovation ..................................................................................... 191 Ken Kusunoki and Satoshi Akutsu 9 Moore's Law Increasing Complexity, and the Limits of Organization: The Modem Significance of Japanese Chipmakers' Commodity DRAM Business ................................................. 209 Hiroyuki Chuma and Norikazu Hashimoto 10 MandAs and Corporate Performance in Japan: Transferring vs. Sharing of Control Right ..................................................................... 247 Sadao Nagaoka 11 International Comparison of Profitability Dispersion .............................. 267 Makoto Nakano 12 International Comparison of Intangible Assets' Disclosure and Investment Behavior ........................................................................... 293 Kunio Ito and Tetsuyuki Kagaya 13 Japanese Company in the Post-Japanese System: Hoya 1985-1996 .................................................................................................... 315 Yoshitaka Suzuki 14 An Entrepreneurial Approach to Service Innovations: Leading Changing Lifestyles in Japan ..................................................... 335 Yoshinori Fujikawa and Carl Kay