The dynamic firm : the role of technology, strategy, organization and regions /
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.
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1998.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.