Organization and Strategy in the Evolution of the Enterprise
Published on 1. January 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
XI, 469 pages
978-1-349-13391-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book examines the role of competence, organization and strategies of firms in industrial dynamics linking economic, management and historical perspectives. In the first part of the book, a series of economic and managerial contributions discuss the concepts, dimensions and effects of routines, competence, adaptation, learning, organizational structure and strategies in the evolution of industrial enterprises at the theoretical and empirical levels. In the second part of the book, a series of historical papers examine these issues in a longterm perspective for the United States, Japan and several European countries.
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Edition
1st ed. 1996
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
XI, 469 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
608 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-13391-8 (9781349133918)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-13389-5
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Giovanni Dosi | Franco Malerba
Organization and Strategy in the Evolution of the Enterprise
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04/1996
Palgrave Macmillan
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Content
Notes on the Contributors - Introduction; G.Dosi & F.Malerba - PART 1: LEARNING, CORPORATE ORGANIZATION AND STRATEGIES - Learning and Schumpeterian Dynamics; D.Levinthal - Technological Regimes and Firm Behaviour; F.Malerba & L.Orsenigo - Incentives Routines and Self Command; S.Postrel & R.Rumelt - From Individual Biases to Organizational Errors; D.Lovallo - Structure, Competence and Learning in an Adaptive Model of the Firm; L.Marengo - Managing Core Competences for Corporate Renewal; I.Doz - Technological Innovation and Firm Inertia; P.Schoemaker & L.Marais - Strategies of Competence Accumulation; K.MacCrimmon - PART 2: ORGANIZATION AND STRATEGIES IN A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE - Corporate Strategy, Structure and Control Methods in the United States During the 20th Century; A.Chandler - National Organizing Principles and the Erstwhile Dominance of the American Multinational Corporation; B.Kogut - Two Distorting Mirrors for British Manufacturing Performance: International and Sectoral Comparisons; L.Hannah - Business Management in Japan: A Comparative Historical Study; K.Nakagawa - The French Case; L.Leboyer - The Impact of Preindustrial Heritage; B.Dornseifer & J.Kocka - Size and Strategy of Italian Industrial Enterprises: Empirical Evidence and Some Conjectures; Giannetti et al - PART 3: THE INSTITUTIONAL EMBEDDEDNESS OF CORPORATE BEHAVIOURS: NATIONAL SYSTEMS OF PRODUCTION AND INNOVATION - National Innovation Systems; R.Nelson - Institutions and Economic Development in the Advanced Countries; J.Zysman - Index