Subject: Economics and Finance Book Title: The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Capabilities
The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Capabilities
Dosi, Giovanni
(Editor), Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
Nelson, Richard R.
(Editor), School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, USA
Winter, Sidney
(Editor), Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
Print publication date: 2001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924854-4
doi:10.1093/0199248540.001.0001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924854-4
doi:10.1093/0199248540.001.0001
Abstract:
In this book, the editors and a team of distinguished international contributors analyse the nature of organizational capabilities, studying how organizations do things, use their knowledge base, and diffuse that knowledge in competitive environment. Offering both theoretical analysis and detailed evidence from a variety of individual firms and sectors, this book presents insights into the relationship between organizational structures and organizational capabilities, the patterns of accumulation of technical knowledge, and the management of competence-building in changing markets.
Keywords: competence-building, competences, economic theory, firm theory, management, organizational capabilities, organizational knowledge, organizational structure, organizations, technical knowledge
Keywords: competence-building, competences, economic theory, firm theory, management, organizational capabilities, organizational knowledge, organizational structure, organizations, technical knowledge
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction: The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Capabilities
1. Talking About Routines in the Field: The Emergence of Organizational Capabilities in a New Cellular Phone Network Company
2. Repositories of Knowledge in Franchise Organizations: Individual, Structural, and Technological
3. Appropriability and the Challenge of Scope: Banc One Routinizes Replication
4. Limited Inquiry and Intelligent Adaptation in Semiconductor Manufacturing
5. In Search of Dynamic Capabilities: The Origins of R&D Competence in Biopharmaceuticals
6. Measuring Competence? Exploring Firm Effects in Drug Discovery
7. Managing the Development and Transfer of Process Technologies in the Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry
8. The ‘Abominable Ohno Production System’. Competences, Monitoring, and Routines in Japanese Production Systems*
9. Evolution of Manufacturing Systems and Ex Post Dynamic Capabilities: A Case of Toyota's Final Assembly Operations
10. Transfer and Replication of Organizational Capabilities: Japanese Transplant Organizations in the United States
11. How Technological Competencies Help Define the Core (Not the Boundaries) of the Firm
12. Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management
13. Organizational Capabilities in Complex Worlds
Index
doi:10.1093/0199248540.001.0001
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