Restructuring Strategy
New Networks and Industry Challenges
1st Edition
Published on 17. December 2004
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-1-4051-2601-4 (ISBN)
Description
New industries are emerging; others are disrupted; old barriers are crumbling, while new ones are rising. This book seeks to better understand the challenges facing industries, networks, businesses and management during periods of industry structuring and restructuring. Comprising a series of contributions from experts in the field, the book addresses key questions about the opportunities and threats posed by these times of turmoil, including: How do existing industries sustain their competitiveness in such difficult times? How do networks stave off threats from new technologies? How do emerging and incumbent companies survive when growth is not an option? And how should companies be governed during periods of industry structuring and restructuring?
In answering these questions, the contributors provide an overview of the strategies that industries, networks, businesses and managers are currently deploying in order to adapt to chaotic conditions and to enhance business profitability. Their responses make a distinctive contribution to scholarly thought and management practice.
In answering these questions, the contributors provide an overview of the strategies that industries, networks, businesses and managers are currently deploying in order to adapt to chaotic conditions and to enhance business profitability. Their responses make a distinctive contribution to scholarly thought and management practice.
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"The book is replete with excellent analysis of firm planning decisions. It draws insightful overarching conclusions."Industrial Relations
"The book is replete with excellent analysis of firm planning decisions. It draws insightful overarching conlusions."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 183 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
787 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-2601-4 (9781405126014)
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Karen O. Cool | James E. Henderson | Rene Abate
Restructuring Strategy
New Networks and Industry Challenges
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02/2009
Wiley-Blackwell
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Persons
Rene Abate is Senior Vice President in the Paris office of The Boston Consulting Group. He has recently published a book on the history of the largest French companies, called 'Trajectoire d'exception: a la decouverte des plus grandes enterprises francaise'.
Karel Cool holds the BP Chair of European Competitiveness and is Professor of Strategic Management at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He has consulted for many international companies on major problems of corporate and industry restructuring and is the Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal.
James Henderson holds the Tejabaipul Term Chair and is Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at Babson College in Wellesley, MA. He works on many strategy-related topics for international companies.
Karel Cool holds the BP Chair of European Competitiveness and is Professor of Strategic Management at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He has consulted for many international companies on major problems of corporate and industry restructuring and is the Associate Editor of the Strategic Management Journal.
James Henderson holds the Tejabaipul Term Chair and is Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at Babson College in Wellesley, MA. He works on many strategy-related topics for international companies.
Content
List of Contributors vii
About the Editors x
1 Restructuring Strategy 1
James Henderson, Karel Cool, and Rene Abate
Part I Industry and Network Competitiveness 15
2 Maintaining Collective Assets, the Tragedy of the Commons, and Supply Chain Performance: The Case of the Champagne Industry 17
Karel Cool and James Henderson
3 Organizing around Strategic Relationships: Networks of Suppliers as Knowledge Generators in the Italian Motorcycle Industry 44
Andrea Lipparini and Gianni Lorenzoni
4 Assessing the Knowledge Landscape across Firms in Alliance Networks and its Impact on Organizational Innovation Performance 68
Beiqing (Emery) Yao and Susan McEvily
5 Generative Interactions: The New Source of Competitive Advantage 86
Yves Morieux, Mark Blaxill, and Vladislav Boutenko
Part II Successful Business Strategies during Periods of Industry Structuring and Restructuring 111
6 Sustaining Superior Performance through a Bubble: Inter-firm Differences in the e-Consulting Industry 113
M. Julia Prats and Ashish Nanda
7 Delaying Market Entry: How Long Is Too Long? 139
Moren Levesque and Dean A. Shepherd
8 Robust Capabilities? An Empirical Study of Incumbent-Entrant Product Development Capabilities after Radical Technological Change 153
Neil Jones
9 The Form of Departure: The Consequences of Presumptive Adaptation of Franchising Knowledge for Local Network Growth 175
Gabriel Szulanski and Robert Jensen
Part III Superior Management and Governance Practices 205
10 A Bayesian Application of the Resource-based View: Narrowing the Gap between Theory and Practice 207
Mark H. Hansen, Lee T. Perry, and C. Shane Reese
11 How Much Do Middle Managers Matter, Really? An Empirical Study on their Impact on Sustained Superior Performance 236
Johanna Mair
12 Impacts of Justification Behavior: The Forgotten Costs of Corporate Governance? 251
Michael Nippa and Kerstin Petzold
13 A New Approach to Improving Board Vigilance: Shift the Focus to Board Process 268
Ann C. Mooney and Sydney Finkelstein
Index 289
About the Editors x
1 Restructuring Strategy 1
James Henderson, Karel Cool, and Rene Abate
Part I Industry and Network Competitiveness 15
2 Maintaining Collective Assets, the Tragedy of the Commons, and Supply Chain Performance: The Case of the Champagne Industry 17
Karel Cool and James Henderson
3 Organizing around Strategic Relationships: Networks of Suppliers as Knowledge Generators in the Italian Motorcycle Industry 44
Andrea Lipparini and Gianni Lorenzoni
4 Assessing the Knowledge Landscape across Firms in Alliance Networks and its Impact on Organizational Innovation Performance 68
Beiqing (Emery) Yao and Susan McEvily
5 Generative Interactions: The New Source of Competitive Advantage 86
Yves Morieux, Mark Blaxill, and Vladislav Boutenko
Part II Successful Business Strategies during Periods of Industry Structuring and Restructuring 111
6 Sustaining Superior Performance through a Bubble: Inter-firm Differences in the e-Consulting Industry 113
M. Julia Prats and Ashish Nanda
7 Delaying Market Entry: How Long Is Too Long? 139
Moren Levesque and Dean A. Shepherd
8 Robust Capabilities? An Empirical Study of Incumbent-Entrant Product Development Capabilities after Radical Technological Change 153
Neil Jones
9 The Form of Departure: The Consequences of Presumptive Adaptation of Franchising Knowledge for Local Network Growth 175
Gabriel Szulanski and Robert Jensen
Part III Superior Management and Governance Practices 205
10 A Bayesian Application of the Resource-based View: Narrowing the Gap between Theory and Practice 207
Mark H. Hansen, Lee T. Perry, and C. Shane Reese
11 How Much Do Middle Managers Matter, Really? An Empirical Study on their Impact on Sustained Superior Performance 236
Johanna Mair
12 Impacts of Justification Behavior: The Forgotten Costs of Corporate Governance? 251
Michael Nippa and Kerstin Petzold
13 A New Approach to Improving Board Vigilance: Shift the Focus to Board Process 268
Ann C. Mooney and Sydney Finkelstein
Index 289