The Dynamic Firm: The Role of Technology, Strategy, Organization, and Regions

by Alfred D. Chandler, Peter Hagstrïm, ïrjan Sïlvell

Overview

Business Strategy is becoming increasingly pluralist, drawing on the insights of different disciplines and business practice in different parts of the world. This book brings together the work and ideas of leading international scholars working in the field under three main headings—Technology, Strategy and Organization, and Regions—to explore from different perspectives the dynamic interplay between the technology of a firm; its strategies; organizational choices; and issues of place, region, and location. Together, the contributors address the challenge of explaining the long-run competitiveness of firms in an ever more global world. This book will be a benchmark for anybody wanting to keep abreast of leading-edge strategic thinking.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198290520
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/25/1998
Pages:	488
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.50(d)

Table of Contents

1 Perspectives on Firm Dynamics, Peter HagstrD"om with Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.Part I Technology in the Firm2. Reinterpreting the Resource-Capability View of the Firm: A Case of the Development-Production Systems of the Japanese Auto Makers, Takahiro Fujimoto3. Science, Technological Advance and Economic Growth, Richard Nelson and Nathan Rosenberg4. "Sticky Information" and the Locus of Problem Solving: Implications for Innovation, Erik von Hipple5. Localized Technological Change and the Evolution of Standards as Economic Institutions, Cristiano AntonelliPart II Strategy/Organization6. Learning How to Govern and Learning How to Solve Problems: On the Co-Evolution of Competences, Conflicts and Organizational Routines, Giovanni Dosi and Benjamin Coriat7. Design Issues for Innovative Firms: Bureaucracy, Incentives, and Industrial Structure, David J. Teece8. A Three-Dimensional Model of Changing Internal Structure in the Firm, Peter Hagstrom and Gunnar Hedlund9. The Wide (and Increasing) Spread of Technological Competencies in the World's Largest Firms: A Challenge to Conventional Wisdom, Pari Patel and Keith Pavitt10. A Theory of the Firm's Knowledge Creation Dynamics, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi11. Dynamics of Overlapping Networks and Strategic Actions by the International Firm, Lars-Gunnar MattssonPart III Regions12. The Globalization of Technology: What Remains of the Product Cycle Model?, John Cantwell13. Globalization, Technological Change and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity, John H. Dunning14. Regional Clusters and Firm Strategy, Michael Enright15. Global Location Behavior and Organizational Dynamics of Japanese Electronics Firms and Their Impact on Regional Economies, Masahisa Fujita and Ryoichi Ishii16. The Geographic Foundations of Industrial Performance, Allen J. Scott17. International Diffusion of Knowledge-Isolating Mechanisms and the Role of the MNE, D"Orjan SD"olvell and Ivo Zander18. The Geographies of Strategic Competence: Borrowing from Social and Educational Psychology to Sketch an Activity and Knowledge-Based Theory, J-C. Spender19. The Role of Geography in the Process of Innovation and the Sustainable Competitive Advantage of Firms, Michael E. Porter and D"Orjan SD"olvell

Editorial Reviews

"...this is a magnificent book—one that should be widely read, discussed, and debated. Provocative, well documented, and well written, it adds richly to the literature and to our understanding of emerging theories of organizations. The Dynamic Firm is a book that will profoundly shape our thinking as well as the future of scholarship in our field."—Academy of Management Review

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