Innovating Organization and Management

by Foss, Nicolai J.; Pedersen, Torben; Pyndt, Jacob; Schultz, Majken

• ISBN13: 9781107648227
• ISBN10: 110764822X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-27
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

The search for competitive advantage serves as the basis for organizational strategy. This book argues that there are four key sources of competitive advantage and financial success that have not been given the attention they deserve. Firstly, that organizational design and management processes may be strategic resources in their own right. Secondly, that organizational design and management processes can be deployed to create new strategic resources. Thirdly, that managers have begun to think of organizational design and management processes in a proactive way rather than seeing them more passively as necessary facilitators of success. Fourthly, that this new way of looking at organization and management requires a search for new ways of structuring organizational design and managerial processes. These points are driven home through case studies of the Danish firms LEGO Group, Vestas Wind Systems, Coloplast, Chr. Hansen, IC Companys and NKT Flexibles.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vi
List of tables	p. viii
List of boxes	p. ix
New sources of competitive advantage	p. 1
Causes of firm success: From resources to organization and management	p. 15
LEGO: Redefining the boundaries	p. 41
Vestas: The will to win(d)	p. 72
Coloplast: Innovating innovation	p. 105
Chr. Hansen: Collaborative forms under private equity ownership	p. 133
IC Companys: Creative genius and commercial attitudes	p. 165
NKT Flexibles: Global sourcing of R&D innovation	p. 198
Concluding reflections: Innovating organization and management to stay competitive	p. 216
Index	p. 242
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