Subject: Economics and Finance Book Title: The Dynamic Firm
The Dynamic Firm
The Role of Technology, Strategy, Organization, and Regions
Chandler, Alfred D.
(Editor), Emeritus Professor of Business History, Harvard University
Hagstrom, Peter
(Editor), Assistant Professor of Business Administration, Stockholm School of Economics
Sölvell, Örjan
(Editor), Associate Professor, Stockholm School of Economics
Print publication date: 1999
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-829604-1
doi:10.1093/0198296045.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-829604-1
doi:10.1093/0198296045.001.0001
Abstract:
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, under three main headings, the work and ideas of leading international scholars working in the field: Part I, Technology in the firm (4 chapters); Strategy/organization (6 chapters); and Part III, Regions (8 chapters). The purpose of the book is 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. The volume is an edited version of the revised papers that were originally presented at the Third Prince Bertil Symposium on the Dynamic Firm, in Stockholm, in June 1994.
Keywords: business practice, companies, dynamic firms, dynamics, firms, geographical factors, location, organization, organizational choices, regional factors, strategy, technology
Keywords: business practice, companies, dynamic firms, dynamics, firms, geographical factors, location, organization, organizational choices, regional factors, strategy, technology
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Perspectives on Firm Dynamics
2. Reinterpreting the Resource-Capability View of the Firm: A Case of the Development-Production Systems of the Japanese Auto-Makers
3. Science, Technological Advance and Economic Growth
4. “Sticky Information” and the Locus of Problem Solving: Implications for Innovation*
5. Localized Technological Change and the Evolution of Standards as Economic Institutions
6. Learning How to Govern and Learning How to Solve Problems: On the Co-Evolution of Competences, Conflicts and Organizational Routines*
7. Design Issues for Innovative Firms: Bureaucracy, Incentives and Industrial Structure*
8. A Three-Dimensional Model of Changing Internal Structure in the Firm*
9. The Wide (and Increasing) Spread of Technological Competencies in the World's Largest Firms: A Challenge to Conventional Wisdom*
10. A Theory of the Firm's Knowledge-Creation Dynamics
11. Dynamics of Overlapping Networks and Strategic Actions by the International Firm
12. The Globalization of Technology: What Remains of the Product Cycle Model?*
13. Globalization, Technological Change and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity
14. Regional Clusters and Firm Strategy
15. Global Location Behavior and Organizational Dynamics of Japanese Electronics Firms and Their Impact on Regional Economies*
16. The Geographic Foundations of Industrial Performance*
17. International Diffusion of Knowledge: Isolating Mechanisms and the Role of the MNE
18. The Geographies of Strategic Competence: Borrowing from Social and Educational Psychology to Sketch an Activity and Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm
19. The Role of Geography in the Process of Innovation and the Sustainable Competitive Advantage of Firms*
Index
doi:10.1093/0198296045.001.0001
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