Frontmatter -- Preface / Child, John -- Contents -- Table A (List of Committee Members) -- Table B (List of Speakers) -- Table C (Commentators' List) -- Part I. Innovation under Japanese Management -- Innovation and the Japanese Management System / Urabe, Kuniyoshi -- The Japanese Corporate System and Technology Accumulation / Itami, Hiroyuki -- Dynamic Synergy and Top Management Leadership: Strategie Innovation in Japanese Companies / Yoshihara, Hideki -- A Comparative Evolutionary Perspective on Strategy-Making: Advantages and Limitations of the Japanese Approach / Burgelman, Robert A. -- Novel Product Concepts from Lead Users / Hippel, Eric von -- Part II. Process of Innovation -- Factors Affecting the Creativity of Organizations - An Approach from the Analysis of New Product Development / Kono, Toyohiro -- Technology Bunching and Industrial Strategies / Delapierre, Michel -- Part III. Innovation and Organizational Change -- Strategy Making as Craft / Mintzberg, Yvette / Mintzberg, Henry -- Management of Change in the Firm - Theoretical Analysis and Empirical Evidence / Albach, Horst -- Restructuring Mature Industries: The Challenge for Europe / Baden-Fuller, Charles / Stopford, John M. -- On the Inter-Relation Between Large and Small Enterprises in a Socialist Economy: The Case of the GDR / Polaschewski, Edwin -- Part IV. Impact of Information Technology and Micro-Electronics -- Information Technology and Organization / Child, John -- High Technology and Its Impact on Business Management / Noguchi, Tasuku -- Adapting Organizations to Micro-Electronics - and Micro-Electronics to Organizations: Experiences in the Federal Republic of Germany / Kieser, Alfred -- Technology, Innovation and Labour-Management Strategies / Littler, Craig R. -- Research Note -- Development of the Studies of Socialist Enterprise in Japan and “Innovation” of the Socialist Enterprise / Giga, Soichiro -- The Authors -- Backmatterweiterlesen