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the role of technology, strategy, organization and regions
Prince Bertil Symposium 1994 : Stockholm, Sweden)
1 online resource (xvii, 469 pages : illustrations, maps
This text brings together the work and ideas of international scholars working in the field of business strategy, under three main headings - technology, strategy and organization, and regions.
1. Perspectives on Firm Dynamics / Peter Hagstrom, Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. 1 -- Part I Technology in the Firm 13 -- 2. Reinterpreting the Resource-Capability View of the Firm: A Case of the Development-Production Systems of the Japanese Auto-Makers / Takahiro Fujimoto 15 -- 3. Science, Technological Advance and Economic Growth / Richard R. Nelson, Nathan Rosenberg 45 -- 4. "Sticky Information" and the Locus of Problem Solving: Implications for Innovation / Eric von Hippel 60 -- 5. Localized Technological Change and the Evolution of Standards as Economic Institutions / Cristiano Antonelli 78 -- Part II Strategy/Organization 101 -- 6. Learning how to Govern and Learning how to Solve Problems: On the Co-Evolution of Competences, Conflicts and Organizational Routines / Benjamin Coriat, Giovanni Dosi 103 -- 7. Design Issues for Innovative Firms: Bureaucracy, Incentives and Industrial Structure / David J. Teece 134 -- 8. A Three-Dimensional Model of Changing Internal Structure in the Firm / Peter Hagstrom, Gunnar Hedlund 166 -- 9. The Wide (and Increasing) Spread of Technological Competencies in the World's Largest Firms: A Challenge to Conventional Wisdom / Pari Patel, Keith Pavitt 192 -- 10. A Theory of the Firm's Knowledge-Creation Dynamics / Ikujiro Nonaka, Hirotaka Takeuchi 214 -- 11. Dynamics of Overlapping Networks and Strategic Actions by the International Firm / Lars-Gunnar Mattsson 242 -- Part III Regions 261 -- 12. The Globalization of Technology: What Remains of the Product-Cycle Model? / John Cantwell 263 -- 13. Globalization, Technological Change and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity / John H. Dunning 289 -- 14. Regional Clusters and Firm Strategy / Michael J. Enright 315 -- 15. Global Location Behavior and Organizational Dynamics of Japanese Electronics Firms and Their Impact on Regional Economies / Masahisa Fujita, Ryoichi Ishii 343 -- 16. The Geographic Foundations of Industrial Performance / Allen J. Scott 384 -- 17. International Diffusion of Knowledge: Isolating Mechanisms and the Role of the MNE / Orjan Solvell, Ivo Zander 402 -- 18. The Geographies of Strategic Competence: Borrowing from Social and Educational Psychology to Sketch an Activity and Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm / J.-C. Spender 417 -- 19. The Role of Geography in the Process of Innovation and the Sustainable Competitive Advantage of Firms / Michael E. Porter, Orjan Solvell 440.
edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Peter Hagström and Örjan Sölvell.
"Revised papers that originally were presented at the third Bertil Symposium on the Dynamic Firm in Stockholm, June 1994"--Preface
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1998