Scholars and practitioners around the globe have identified the capability of MNCs to create and efficiently transfer and combine knowledge from different locations worldwide as an increasingly important determinant of competitive advantage, corporate success and survival. Traditional marketing approaches have overly focused on explicit knowledge and neglected the important role of tacit knowledge, specifically in international, cross-cultural settings. This book draws on real-life examples of knowledge-based firms - Hewlett-Packard Consulting & Integration, Schindler, Siemens, Toyota, Mazda,...

Presents an ultimate theory of knowledge-based management and organizational knowledge creation based on empirical research and an extensive literature review.Itexplores knowledge management as a global concept and is relevant to any company that wants to prosper and thrive in the global knowledge economy."

Mobile phones seem to have become a ubiquitous phenomenon of the societies of the industrialized nations in the 1990s and the beginning of the 21st century. Even though Japan is not the leading market in terms of penetration rate, it is still considered to be the world's most innovative and advanced mobile communications market. Especially in the field of mobile commerce, Japan is regarded as a role model for markets in other countries and Western firms are trying to learn their lesson from Japan's experience. This book is to provide an introduction to the Japanese mobile communications...