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

by Chandler, Alfred D.; Hagström, Peter; Sölvell, Örjan

• ISBN13: 9780198290520
• ISBN10: 0198290527
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. xi
List of Tables	p. xiii
List of Contributors	p. xiv
Perspectives on Firm Dynamics	p. 1
Technology in the Firm	p. 13
Reinterpreting the Resource-Capability View of the Firm: A Case of the Development-Production Systems of the Japanese Auto-Makers	p. 15
Science, Technological Advance and Economic Growth	p. 45
"Sticky Information" and the Locus of Problem Solving: Implications for Innovation	p. 60
Localized Technological Change and the Evolution of Standards as Economic Institutions	p. 78
Strategy/Organization	p. 101
Learning how to Govern and Learning how to Solve Problems: On the Co-Evolution of Competences, Conflicts and Organizational Routines	p. 103
Design Issues for Innovative Firms: Bureaucracy, Incentives and Industrial Structure	p. 134
A Three-Dimensional Model of Changing Internal Structure in the Firm	p. 166
The Wide (and Increasing) Spread of Technological Competencies in the World's Largest Firms: A Challenge to Conventional Wisdom	p. 192
A Theory of the Firm's Knowledge-Creation Dynamics	p. 214
Dynamics of Overlapping Networks and Strategic Actions by the International Firm	p. 242
Regions	p. 261
The Globalization of Technology: What Remains of the Product-Cycle Model?	p. 263
Globalization, Technological Change and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity	p. 289
Regional Clusters and Firm Strategy	p. 315
Global Location Behavior and Organizational Dynamics of Japanese Electronics Firms and Their Impact on Regional Economies	p. 343
The Geographic Foundations of Industrial Performance	p. 384
International Diffusion of Knowledge: Isolating Mechanisms and the Role of the MNE	p. 402
The Geographies of Strategic Competence: Borrowing from Social and Educational Psychology to Sketch an Activity and Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm	p. 417
The Role of Geography in the Process of Innovation and the Sustainable Competitive Advantage of Firms	p. 440
Index	p. 458
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