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Ma Theory and the Creative Management of Innovation

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Mitsuru Kodama

    1. Tokyo, Japan

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  • Demonstrates Ma thinking either consciously or unconsciously to achieve innovations in a wide range of creative activities such as architecture and the arts.

  • Examines the result of research spanning dissimilar academic disciplines into innovation based on Ma thinking carried out through collaboration between scholars involved in business, architecture and the arts.

  • Presents detailed case studies and theoretical concepts of innovation activities at the micro level in business workplaces as well as design and artistic innovations in architecture and the arts.

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. “Ma” and Innovation Management

    • Mitsuru Kodama
    Pages 1-21

  3. The Five Types of Ma Thinking and Five Architect Capabilities: Theoretical Concepts

    • Mitsuru Kodama
    Pages 23-42

  4. Ma Thinking and Innovation in Global High Tech Companies: The Lessons of Business Model Innovation in Apple and Cisco Systems

    • Mitsuru Kodama, Takehiko Yasuda, Katsuhiko Hirasawa
    Pages 43-80

  5. Managing Serendipity Through Ma Thinking: Lessons of the Invention and Commercialization of Blue LED (Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics)

    • Mitsuru Kodama, Takehiko Yasuda
    Pages 81-102

  6. Industrial Innovation with Ma Thinking: Lessons from Singapore’s Economic Development

    • Takehiko Yasuda
    Pages 103-124

  7. Use and Reproduction of Ma in Financial Cooperative Organizations in Japan: With a Focus on Ma in Japan and Financial Cooperatives

    • Tsutomu Hasegawa
    Pages 125-146

  8. Green Innovation Based on Ma Thinking: The Lessons of the Japanese Smart City Vision

    • Nobuyuki Tokoro
    Pages 147-177

  9. The Ma of Maeterlinck and Ma of Japanese Maeterlinckians

    • Mariko Anazawa
    Pages 179-194

  10. Ma in Traditional Japanese Theater: The Ma of Space and Ma of Time

    • Shozo Motosugi
    Pages 195-214

  11. Ma Thinking in Architectural Space, Mentality and Action: The Impact of Ma Thinking on Lifestyle Design

    • Tomoyoshi Urabe
    Pages 215-228

  12. Comparative Case Studies and New Implications

    • Mitsuru Kodama
    Pages 229-263

  13. Conclusions and Issues for Future Research

    • Mitsuru Kodama
    Pages 265-288

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 289-296
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About this book

This book focuses on the core theoretical concept of “Ma thinking” - an idea that serves as springboard for the thoughts and actions of distinguished practitioners, innovators, and researchers. The theoretical and practical importance of the Ma concept in new innovation activities lies in the thinking and activities of the leading practitioners. However, there is little academic research clarifying these characteristic dynamic transition mechanisms and the synthesis of diverse paradoxes through recursive activities between formal and informal organizations to achieve integration of dissimilar knowledge. 

Reviews

“Japan has a culture of Ma, an intersubjective space where new phenomena or events to emerge. The concept of Ma is manifested in many facets of traditional Japanese arts and beyond. Based on the multidisciplinary approach ranging from business, architecture to the fine arts, this book delves into the dynamics of innovation through the lens of Ma. The practical theory and case studies of Ma in this book provide new insights for knowledge creation in companies and organizations.” (Dr Ikujiro Nonaka, Professor Emeritus, Hitotsubashi University, Japan)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Tokyo, Japan

    Mitsuru Kodama

About the editor

Mitsuru Kodama is a Professor of Innovation and Technology Management in the College of Commerce and Graduate School of Business Administration at Nihon
University, Japan. 

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