The dynamic firm : the role of technology, strategy, organization, and regions

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. Contents......Page 12 List of Figures......Page 14 List of Tables......Page 16 List of Contributors......Page 17 1. Perspectives on Firm Dynamics......Page 20 PART I: TECHNOLOGY IN THE FIRM......Page 32 2. Reinterpreting the Resource-Capability View of the Firm: A Case of the Development-Production Systems of the Japanese Auto-Makers......Page 34 3. Science, Technological Advance and Economic Growth......Page 64 4. "Sticky Information" and the Locus of Problem Solving: Implications for Innovation......Page 79 5. Localized Technological Change and the Evolution of Standards as Economic Institutions......Page 97 PART II: STRATEGY/ORGANIZATION......Page 120 6. Learning how to Govern and Learning how to Solve Problems: On the Co-Evolution of Competences, Conflicts and Organizational Routines......Page 122 7. Design Issues for Innovative Firms: Bureaucracy, Incentives and Industrial Structure......Page 153 8. A Three-Dimensional Model of Changing Internal Structure in the Firm......Page 185 9. The Wide (and Increasing) Spread of Technological Competencies in the World's Largest Firms: A Challenge to Conventional Wisdom......Page 211 10. A Theory of the Firm's Knowledge-Creation Dynamics......Page 233 11. Dynamics of Overlapping Networks and Strategic Actions by the International Firm......Page 261 PART III: REGIONS......Page 280 12. The Globalization of Technology: What Remains of the Product-Cycle Model?......Page 282 13. Globalization, Technological Change and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity......Page 308 14. Regional Clusters and Firm Strategy......Page 334 15. Global Location Behavior and Organizational Dynamics of Japanese Electronics Firms and Their Impact on Regional Economies......Page 362 16. The Geographic Foundations of Industrial Performance......Page 403 17. International Diffusion of Knowledge: Isolating Mechanisms and the Role of the MNE......Page 421 18. The Geographies of Strategic Competence: Borrowing from Social and Educational Psychology to Sketch an Activity and Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm......Page 436 19. The Role of Geography in the Process of Innovation and the Sustainable Competitive Advantage of Firms......Page 459 C......Page 477 D......Page 478 F......Page 479 H......Page 480 K......Page 481 M......Page 482 N......Page 483 P......Page 484 S......Page 485 T......Page 487 Z......Page 488 Contents 12 List of Figures 14 List of Tables 16 List of Contributors 17 1. Perspectives on Firm Dynamics 20 PART I: TECHNOLOGY IN THE FIRM 32 2. Reinterpreting the Resource-Capability View of the Firm: A Case of the Development-Production Systems of the Japanese Auto-Makers 34 3. Science, Technological Advance and Economic Growth 64 4. "Sticky Information" and the Locus of Problem Solving: Implications for Innovation 79 5. Localized Technological Change and the Evolution of Standards as Economic Institutions 97 PART II: STRATEGY/ORGANIZATION 120 6. Learning how to Govern and Learning how to Solve Problems: On the Co-Evolution of Competences, Conflicts and Organizational Routines 122 7. Design Issues for Innovative Firms: Bureaucracy, Incentives and Industrial Structure 153 8. A Three-Dimensional Model of Changing Internal Structure in the Firm 185 9. The Wide (and Increasing) Spread of Technological Competencies in the World's Largest Firms: A Challenge to Conventional Wisdom 211 10. A Theory of the Firm's Knowledge-Creation Dynamics 233 11. Dynamics of Overlapping Networks and Strategic Actions by the International Firm 261 PART III: REGIONS 280 12. The Globalization of Technology: What Remains of the Product-Cycle Model? 282 13. Globalization, Technological Change and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity 308 14. Regional Clusters and Firm Strategy 334 15. Global Location Behavior and Organizational Dynamics of Japanese Electronics Firms and Their Impact on Regional Economies 362 16. The Geographic Foundations of Industrial Performance 403 17. International Diffusion of Knowledge: Isolating Mechanisms and the Role of the MNE 421 18. The Geographies of Strategic Competence: Borrowing from Social and Educational Psychology to Sketch an Activity and Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm 436 19. The Role of Geography in the Process of Innovation and the Sustainable Competitive Advantage of Firms 459 Index 477 A 477 B 477 C 477 D 478 E 479 F 479 G 480 H 480 I 481 J 481 K 481 L 482 M 482 N 483 O 484 P 484 Q 485 R 485 S 485 T 487 U 488 V 488 W 488 Y 488 Z 488 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. 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 contributors are Peter Hagström, Alfred Chandler, Takahiro Fujimoto, Richard Nelson, Nathan Rosenberg, Erik von Hippel, Cristiano Antonelli, Giovanni Dosi, Benjamin Coriat, David Teece, Gunnar Hedlund, Pari Patel, Keith Pavitt, Ikujiro Nonaka, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Lars-Gunnar Mattsson, John Cantwell, John Dunning, Michael Enright, Masahisa Fujita, Ryoichi Ishii, Allen Scott, Orjan Solvell, Ivo Zander, J-C Spender, and Michael Porter. Together they 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. "This book brings together the workd 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." This text brings together the work and ideas of international scholars working in the field of business strategy, under three main headings - technology, strategy and organization, and regions "... Edited volume of the revised papers ... presented at the third Prince Bertil symposium on the dynamic firm in Stockholm, June 1994. -- Preface Resource-based or capability theories of the firm have attracted much attention among business academics and practitioners in recent years. Edited By Alfred D. Chandler, Peter Hagström And Örjan Sölvell. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.