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

Alfred D. Chandler, Peter Hagstrom, and Örjan Sölvell

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, a ... More

Keywords: business practice, companies, dynamic firms, dynamics, firms, geographical factors, location, organization, organizational choices, regional factors, strategy, technology

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 1999 Print ISBN-13: 9780198296041
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 DOI:10.1093/0198296045.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Alfred D. Chandler, Editor
Harvard University

Peter Hagstrom, Editor
Stockholm School of Economics

Örjan Sölvell, Editor
Stockholm School of Economics
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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Dedication

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

1 Perspectives on Firm Dynamics

Part I Technology in the Firm

2 Reinterpreting the Resource‐Capability View of the Firm: A Case of the Development‐Production Systems of the Japanese Auto‐Makers 1

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 1

Part II Strategy/Organization

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

Part III Regions

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 *

End Matter

Index