Developing Holistic Leadership ― A Source of Business Innovation

The book intends to make a contribution to new theoretical concepts and knowledge to existing leadership theory. Through in-depth case studies of international corporations that have achieved business innovation, the book aims to provide new leadership theory of practitioners who promote strategic knowledge creation activities to achieve business innovation and new practical insights. The book discusses in detail theoretical concepts and practical knowledge in the leadership interaction among the different management layers (top, middle and lower layers) and among the different layers (formal layer, psychological boundary layer, and informal layer).

Mitsuru Kodama is Professor of Innovation and Technology Management in the College of Commerce and Graduate School of Business Administration at Nihon University. His research has been published in international journals such as Long Range Planning, Organization Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Technovation, R&D Management and Information Systems Management, among others. He also has published 11 books in English such as Collaborative Innovation (Routledge, 2015), Winning Through Boundaries Innovation (Peter Lang, 2014), Competing through ICT Capability (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), Knowledge Integration Dynamics (World Scientific, 2011), Boundary Management (Springer, 2009), Knowledge Innovation (Edward Elgar, 2007), among others.