Ma Theory and the Creative Management of Innovation, 1st ed. 2017

Coordinator: Kodama Mitsuru

Language: English

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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. 
1 “Ma” and Innovation Management

  Mitsuru Kodama

 

2 The Five Types of Ma Thinking and Five Architect Capabilities - Theoretical Concepts

  Mitsuru Kodama

 

3 Ma Thinking and Innovation in Global High Tech Companies

- The lessons of business model innovation in Apple and Cisco Systems

Mitsuru Kodama, Takehiko Yasuda and Katsuhiko Hirasawa

 

4 Managing Serendipity through Ma Thinking

- The lessons of the invention and commercialization of the blue LED (awarded the Nobel prize in physics)

Mitsuru Kodama and Takehiko Yasuda

 

5 Industrial Innovation with Ma Thinking

- Lessons from Singapore’s Economic Development


 

6 Use and Reproduction of Ma in Financial Cooperative Organizations in Japan - with a Focus on Ma in Japan and Financial Cooperatives


 

7 Green Innovation based on Ma Thinking

- The lessons of the Japanese smart city vision



8 The Ma of Maeterlinck and Ma of Japanese Maeterlinckians


 

9 “Ma” in Traditional Japanese Theater: The “Ma” of Space and “Ma” of Time


 

10 Ma Thinking in Architectural Space, Mentality and Action - The impact of Ma thinking on lifestyle design


 

11 Comparative Case Studies and New Implications


12 Conclusions and Issues for Future Research


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. 

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.