Fundamentals of Business Strategy
1st Edition
Published on 12. February 2008
Book
Hardback
2296 pages
978-1-4129-0106-2 (ISBN)
Description
This collection of selected papers provides a range of fundamental readings in strategic management. The collection covers basic and advanced topics and includes selections from both traditional masters in the field as well as writings by contemporary authors.
Part One: Foundations of Business Strategy: contains the classical foundational texts (from scholars such as Herbert Simon, Alfred Chandler and Alfred Sloan) which helped create the field.
Part Two: Industry Analysis and Competitive Strategy: covers the key texts in the areas of industry analysis and competitive strategy (with contributions by Porter, Nalebuf, Ghemewhat and others).
Part Three: The Resource Competences Based Approach to Strategy: highlights contributions to the resources-based view (including key articles from Richard Rumelt, Jay Barney and others).
Part Four: Dynamic Capabilities Approach: addresses dynamic capability theory (with contributors such as Sidney Winter, Richard Rumelt, David Teece and others), covering areas such as organizational learning, entrepreneurship and future directions for strategic management.
Each volume contains an introduction to the content included. The collection is of great value to scholars, students and practitioners of corporate strategy.
Part One: Foundations of Business Strategy: contains the classical foundational texts (from scholars such as Herbert Simon, Alfred Chandler and Alfred Sloan) which helped create the field.
Part Two: Industry Analysis and Competitive Strategy: covers the key texts in the areas of industry analysis and competitive strategy (with contributions by Porter, Nalebuf, Ghemewhat and others).
Part Three: The Resource Competences Based Approach to Strategy: highlights contributions to the resources-based view (including key articles from Richard Rumelt, Jay Barney and others).
Part Four: Dynamic Capabilities Approach: addresses dynamic capability theory (with contributors such as Sidney Winter, Richard Rumelt, David Teece and others), covering areas such as organizational learning, entrepreneurship and future directions for strategic management.
Each volume contains an introduction to the content included. The collection is of great value to scholars, students and practitioners of corporate strategy.
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Series
Edition
Second Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
4240 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4129-0106-2 (9781412901062)
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Persons
David J. Teece is an economist and an authority on matters of industrial organization, technological change, and innovation, particularly as it relates to antitrust and competition policy and intellectual property. Teece has a PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and has held teaching and research positions at Stanford University and Oxford University. He has received eight honorary doctorates. Teece has over 30 years of experience as an active consultant performing economic, business, and financial consulting services to businesses and governments around the world. He has worked on matters in industries ranging from music recording to DRAMS, software, lumber, and petroleum, and has testified in both federal and state court, before Congress, and before the Federal Trade Commission, as well as in several international jurisdictions.
Expertise and Research Interests are Competitive Performance of Firms in the Global Marketplace, Intellectual Capital Management, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Antitrust Policy, Technology and Intellectual Property, Strategy Management, Corporate Governance, Product and Process Development, Human Capital and Dynamic Capabilities.
Expertise and Research Interests are Competitive Performance of Firms in the Global Marketplace, Intellectual Capital Management, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Antitrust Policy, Technology and Intellectual Property, Strategy Management, Corporate Governance, Product and Process Development, Human Capital and Dynamic Capabilities.
Content
Volume One
Economic Analysis and Strategic Management - D J Teece
The Nature of the Firm - R Coase
Rational Decision Making in Business Organizations - Herbert A. Simon
Organizational Behavior - James G March and Herbert A Simon
Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations - Oliver E. Williamson
Production, Information Costs and Economic Organization - A Alchian and H Demsetz
Four Formal(izable) Theories of the Firm? - Robert Gibbons
Evolutionary Theorizing in Economics - Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter
An Epilogue - Richard M Cyert and James G March
Research on the Business Firm Limits to the Growth and Size of Firms - Edith Penrose
A Legal Basis for the Firm
Costly and Bounded Rationality in Individual and Team Decision-Making - Roy Radner
Team Theory, Garbage Cans and Real Organizations: Some History and Prospects of Economic Research on Decision-Making in Organizations - Robert Gibbons
Organizations and Markets - Herbert A. Simon
The Great Opportunity - I - Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
The Beginnings of "Big Business" in American Industry - Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
Business Objectives and Survival Needs: Notes on a Discipline of Business Enterprise - Peter F. Drucker
Volume Two
The Enduring Logic of Industrial Success - Alfred D Chandler Jr
The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism - David J Teece
Strategy and Organizational Evolution - Herbert A Simon
The Evolution of Evolution - James G March
What Is Strategy? - Michael E Porter
Perspectives on Alfred Chandler's Scale and Scope
Organizations and Markets - Herbert A Simon
Strategizing, Economizing and Economic Organization - Oliver E Williamson
'Introduction' and 'Fundamental Issues in Strategy' - Richard P Rumelt, Dan E Schendel and David J Teece
Evolutionary Theorizing in Economics - R Nelson and S Winter
Team Theory, Garbage Cans and Real Organizations - Robert Gibbons
Some History and Prospects of Economic Research on Decision-Making in Organizations
PART TWO: INDUSTRY ANALYSIS AND COMPETITIVE STRATEGY
Relation of Profit Rate to Industry Concentration - Joe S Bain
American Manufacturing, 1936-1940
The Role of Investment in Entry Deterrence - Avinash Dixit
Uncertain Imitability - S A Lippman and R P Rumelt
An Analysis of Interfirm Differences in Efficiency under Competition
Volume Three
Do Markets Differ Much? - Richard Schmalensee
Sustainable Advantage - Pankaj Ghemawat
Reputation and Strategy - Keith Weigelt and Colin Camerer
A Review of Recent Theory and Implications
Performance Differences among Strategic Groups - Karel Cool and Dan Schendel
The Theory of Business Strategy - Carl Shapiro
The Economics of Modern Manufacturing - Paul Milgrom and John Roberts
Technology, Strategy and Organization
Does Strategy Research Need Game Theory? - Colin F Camerer
How Much Does Industry Matter? - Richard P Rumelt
Game Theory and Strategic Management - Garth Saloner
Applications, Contributions and Limitations
The Right Game - Adam M Brandenburger and Barry J Nalebuf
Use Game Theory to Shape Strategy
The Meaning of Monopoly - David J Teece and Mary Coleman
Antitrust Analysis in High-Technology Industries
PART THREE: THE RESOURCE COMPETENCES-BASED APPROACH TO STRATEGY
Towards an Economic Theory of the Multiproduct Firm - David J Teece
A Resource-Based View of the Firm - Birger Wernerfelt
Strategic Factor Markets - Jay B Barney
Volume Four
Determinants of Firm Performance - Gary S Hansen and Birger Wernerfelt
The Relative Importance of Economic and Organizational Factors
Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage - Jay Barney
Why Do Firms Differ and How Much Does It Matter? - Richard R Nelson
Strategic Assets and Organizational Rent - Raphael Amit and Paul J H Schoemaker
A Sociological Perspective on Why Firms Differ - Glenn R Carroll
The Cornerstones of Competitive Advantage - Margaret A Peteraf
A Resource-Based Approach
Sustainable Competitive Advantage - Christine Oliver
Combining Institutional and Resource-Based Views
Is the Resource-Based 'View' a Useful Perspective for Strategic Management Research? - Richard L Priem and John E Butler
The Bargaining Perspective - Steven A Lippman and Richard P Rumelt
The Payments Perspective - Steven A Lippman and Richard P Rumelt
Micro-Foundations of Resource Analysis
The Resource-Based Tangle - Nicolai J Foss and Thorbjorn Knudsen
Towards a Sustainable Explanation of Competitive Advantage
Dynamic Capabilities and the Multinational Enterprise - Mie Augier and David J Teece
Competing on Resources - David J Collis and Cynthia Montgomory
PART FOUR: DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES APPROACH
Research Note - David J Collis
How Valuable Are Organizational Capabilities?
Volume Five
Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management - David J Teece, Gary Pisano and Amy Shuen
Introduction - Giovanni Dosi, Richard R Nelson and Sidney G Winter
The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Capabilities
Structural Inertia and Organizational Change - Michael T Hannan and John Freeman
Absorptive Capacity - Wesley M Cohen and Daniel A Levinthal
A New Perspective in Learning and Innovation
Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning - James G March
The Myopia of Learning - Daniel A Levinthal and James G March
The Red Queen in Organizational Evolution - William P Barnett and Morten T Hansen
The Satisfying Principle in Capability Learning - Sidney G Winter
Deliberate Learning and the Evolution of Dynamic Capabilities - Maurizio Zollo and Sidney G Winter
Cognitive Simplification Processes in Strategic Decision-Making - Charles R Schwenk
The Psychological Context of Strategic Decisions - Thomas S Bateman and Carl P Zeithaml
A Model and Convergent Experimental Findings
The Attention-Based View of the Firm - William Ocasio
Getting to Know You - Margaret Peteraf and Mark Shanley
A Theory of Strategic Group Identity
Volume Six
Timid Choice and Bold Forecasts - Daniel Kahneman and Dan Lovallo
Integrating Evolution, Cognition and Design - Mie Augier and Saras D Sarasvarthy
Extending Simonian Perspectives to Strategic Organization
Transactions-Cost Economics in Real Time - Richard Langlois
Measuring Competences? Exploring Firm Effects in Pharmaceutical Research - Rebecca Henderson and Iain Cockburn
Strategy Research - Oliver E Williamson
Governance and Competence Perspectives
Dynamic Capabilities - Kathleen M Eisenhardt and Jeffrey A Martin
What Are They?
The Economics of Strategic Opportunity - Jerker Denrell, Christina Fang and Sidney G Winter
The Dynamic Resource-Based View - Constance E Helfat and Margaret A Peterof
Capability Lifecycles
Understanding Dynamic Capabilities - Sidney G Winter
Rationality, Foolishness and Intelligence - James G March
The Co-Evolution of Capabilities and Transaction Costs - Michael G Jacobides and Sidney G Winter
Explaining the Institutional Structure of Production
Explicating Dynamic Capabilities - David J Teece
Nature, Microfoundations and Long-Run Enterprise Performance
Economic Analysis and Strategic Management - D J Teece
The Nature of the Firm - R Coase
Rational Decision Making in Business Organizations - Herbert A. Simon
Organizational Behavior - James G March and Herbert A Simon
Transaction-Cost Economics: The Governance of Contractual Relations - Oliver E. Williamson
Production, Information Costs and Economic Organization - A Alchian and H Demsetz
Four Formal(izable) Theories of the Firm? - Robert Gibbons
Evolutionary Theorizing in Economics - Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter
An Epilogue - Richard M Cyert and James G March
Research on the Business Firm Limits to the Growth and Size of Firms - Edith Penrose
A Legal Basis for the Firm
Costly and Bounded Rationality in Individual and Team Decision-Making - Roy Radner
Team Theory, Garbage Cans and Real Organizations: Some History and Prospects of Economic Research on Decision-Making in Organizations - Robert Gibbons
Organizations and Markets - Herbert A. Simon
The Great Opportunity - I - Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
The Beginnings of "Big Business" in American Industry - Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
Business Objectives and Survival Needs: Notes on a Discipline of Business Enterprise - Peter F. Drucker
Volume Two
The Enduring Logic of Industrial Success - Alfred D Chandler Jr
The Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism - David J Teece
Strategy and Organizational Evolution - Herbert A Simon
The Evolution of Evolution - James G March
What Is Strategy? - Michael E Porter
Perspectives on Alfred Chandler's Scale and Scope
Organizations and Markets - Herbert A Simon
Strategizing, Economizing and Economic Organization - Oliver E Williamson
'Introduction' and 'Fundamental Issues in Strategy' - Richard P Rumelt, Dan E Schendel and David J Teece
Evolutionary Theorizing in Economics - R Nelson and S Winter
Team Theory, Garbage Cans and Real Organizations - Robert Gibbons
Some History and Prospects of Economic Research on Decision-Making in Organizations
PART TWO: INDUSTRY ANALYSIS AND COMPETITIVE STRATEGY
Relation of Profit Rate to Industry Concentration - Joe S Bain
American Manufacturing, 1936-1940
The Role of Investment in Entry Deterrence - Avinash Dixit
Uncertain Imitability - S A Lippman and R P Rumelt
An Analysis of Interfirm Differences in Efficiency under Competition
Volume Three
Do Markets Differ Much? - Richard Schmalensee
Sustainable Advantage - Pankaj Ghemawat
Reputation and Strategy - Keith Weigelt and Colin Camerer
A Review of Recent Theory and Implications
Performance Differences among Strategic Groups - Karel Cool and Dan Schendel
The Theory of Business Strategy - Carl Shapiro
The Economics of Modern Manufacturing - Paul Milgrom and John Roberts
Technology, Strategy and Organization
Does Strategy Research Need Game Theory? - Colin F Camerer
How Much Does Industry Matter? - Richard P Rumelt
Game Theory and Strategic Management - Garth Saloner
Applications, Contributions and Limitations
The Right Game - Adam M Brandenburger and Barry J Nalebuf
Use Game Theory to Shape Strategy
The Meaning of Monopoly - David J Teece and Mary Coleman
Antitrust Analysis in High-Technology Industries
PART THREE: THE RESOURCE COMPETENCES-BASED APPROACH TO STRATEGY
Towards an Economic Theory of the Multiproduct Firm - David J Teece
A Resource-Based View of the Firm - Birger Wernerfelt
Strategic Factor Markets - Jay B Barney
Volume Four
Determinants of Firm Performance - Gary S Hansen and Birger Wernerfelt
The Relative Importance of Economic and Organizational Factors
Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage - Jay Barney
Why Do Firms Differ and How Much Does It Matter? - Richard R Nelson
Strategic Assets and Organizational Rent - Raphael Amit and Paul J H Schoemaker
A Sociological Perspective on Why Firms Differ - Glenn R Carroll
The Cornerstones of Competitive Advantage - Margaret A Peteraf
A Resource-Based Approach
Sustainable Competitive Advantage - Christine Oliver
Combining Institutional and Resource-Based Views
Is the Resource-Based 'View' a Useful Perspective for Strategic Management Research? - Richard L Priem and John E Butler
The Bargaining Perspective - Steven A Lippman and Richard P Rumelt
The Payments Perspective - Steven A Lippman and Richard P Rumelt
Micro-Foundations of Resource Analysis
The Resource-Based Tangle - Nicolai J Foss and Thorbjorn Knudsen
Towards a Sustainable Explanation of Competitive Advantage
Dynamic Capabilities and the Multinational Enterprise - Mie Augier and David J Teece
Competing on Resources - David J Collis and Cynthia Montgomory
PART FOUR: DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES APPROACH
Research Note - David J Collis
How Valuable Are Organizational Capabilities?
Volume Five
Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management - David J Teece, Gary Pisano and Amy Shuen
Introduction - Giovanni Dosi, Richard R Nelson and Sidney G Winter
The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Capabilities
Structural Inertia and Organizational Change - Michael T Hannan and John Freeman
Absorptive Capacity - Wesley M Cohen and Daniel A Levinthal
A New Perspective in Learning and Innovation
Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning - James G March
The Myopia of Learning - Daniel A Levinthal and James G March
The Red Queen in Organizational Evolution - William P Barnett and Morten T Hansen
The Satisfying Principle in Capability Learning - Sidney G Winter
Deliberate Learning and the Evolution of Dynamic Capabilities - Maurizio Zollo and Sidney G Winter
Cognitive Simplification Processes in Strategic Decision-Making - Charles R Schwenk
The Psychological Context of Strategic Decisions - Thomas S Bateman and Carl P Zeithaml
A Model and Convergent Experimental Findings
The Attention-Based View of the Firm - William Ocasio
Getting to Know You - Margaret Peteraf and Mark Shanley
A Theory of Strategic Group Identity
Volume Six
Timid Choice and Bold Forecasts - Daniel Kahneman and Dan Lovallo
Integrating Evolution, Cognition and Design - Mie Augier and Saras D Sarasvarthy
Extending Simonian Perspectives to Strategic Organization
Transactions-Cost Economics in Real Time - Richard Langlois
Measuring Competences? Exploring Firm Effects in Pharmaceutical Research - Rebecca Henderson and Iain Cockburn
Strategy Research - Oliver E Williamson
Governance and Competence Perspectives
Dynamic Capabilities - Kathleen M Eisenhardt and Jeffrey A Martin
What Are They?
The Economics of Strategic Opportunity - Jerker Denrell, Christina Fang and Sidney G Winter
The Dynamic Resource-Based View - Constance E Helfat and Margaret A Peterof
Capability Lifecycles
Understanding Dynamic Capabilities - Sidney G Winter
Rationality, Foolishness and Intelligence - James G March
The Co-Evolution of Capabilities and Transaction Costs - Michael G Jacobides and Sidney G Winter
Explaining the Institutional Structure of Production
Explicating Dynamic Capabilities - David J Teece
Nature, Microfoundations and Long-Run Enterprise Performance