The Changing Boundaries of the Firm
Explaining Evolving Inter-firm Relations
Published on 3. September 1998
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-0-415-15470-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book offers a distinctive analysis of the relations and interplay between the internal activities of firms, their changing boundaries, and increasing reliance on networks and alliances with other firms.
The contributors offer a blend of theoretical and empirical studies; they are based on a set of related perspectives in modern economics, including transaction cost economics, competence and resource-based theories of the firm, evolutionary economics and the theories of foreign direct investments and the multinational enterprise. The unifying concern shared by the different studies is the need to model firm behaviour and inter firm cooperative activities in terms of knowledge growth and competence building rather than merely in terms of cost-reduction; they emphasize learning processes and dynamic efficiency rather than efficient allocation of given resources.
The contributors offer a blend of theoretical and empirical studies; they are based on a set of related perspectives in modern economics, including transaction cost economics, competence and resource-based theories of the firm, evolutionary economics and the theories of foreign direct investments and the multinational enterprise. The unifying concern shared by the different studies is the need to model firm behaviour and inter firm cooperative activities in terms of knowledge growth and competence building rather than merely in terms of cost-reduction; they emphasize learning processes and dynamic efficiency rather than efficient allocation of given resources.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
39 s/w Tabellen
39 Tables, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
599 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-15470-3 (9780415154703)
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Person
Massimo G. Colombo is Full Professor of Applied Economics at the Universita di Pavia. He is also Professor of Economics of Technical Change at the Politecnico di Milano. He is the author of numerous publications in the fields of industrial economics, economics of innovation and the theory of the firm in established international journals.
Content
Preface 1 Some introductory reflections PART I Alliance capitalism? 2 Reappraising the eclectic paradigm in an age of alliance capitalism 3 On knowledge and power in the theory of the firm 4 Blurring boundaries: new inter-firm relationships and the emergence of networked, knowledge-based oligopolies PART II Joint ventures, alliances, and hierarchical integration 5 The evolution of collaborative activity in the firm 6 Testing theories of joint ventures: Why Japanese investors in the United States choose joint ventures over acquisitions 7 A simultaneous equations model of technological agreements and infra-mural R&D 8 Technological change and vertical integration: Analysis of international vertical integration in multinational companies PART III Supply relations 9 Cost, quality, and learning based governance of buyer-supplier relations 10 Japanese 'transplant' supplier relations: are they transferable? Should they be? 11 Customer-subcontractor relationships