Restructuring Strategy
New Networks and Industry Challenges
Published on 4. February 2009
312 pages
978-1-4051-4258-8 (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.
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Karen O. Cool | James E. Henderson | Rene Abate
Restructuring Strategy
New Networks and Industry Challenges
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René Abate is Senior Vice President in the Paris officeof The Boston Consulting Group. He has recently published a book onthe history of the largest French companies, called 'Trajectoired'exception: à la découverte des plus grandes enterprisesfrançaise'.
Karel Cool holds the BP Chair of European Competitivenessand is Professor of Strategic Management at INSEAD inFontainebleau, France. He has consulted for many internationalcompanies on major problems of corporate and industry restructuringand is the Associate Editor of the Strategic ManagementJournal.
James Henderson holds the Tejabaipul Term Chair and isAssistant Professor of Strategic Management at Babson College inWellesley, MA. He works on many strategy-related topics forinternational companies.
Content
List of Contributors vii
About the Editors x
1 Restructuring Strategy 1
James Henderson, Karel Cool, and René Abate
Part I Industry and Network Competitiveness 15
2 Maintaining Collective Assets, the Tragedy of the Commons, andSupply Chain Performance: The Case of the Champagne Industry17
Karel Cool and James Henderson
3 Organizing around Strategic Relationships: Networks ofSuppliers as Knowledge Generators in the Italian MotorcycleIndustry 44
Andrea Lipparini and Gianni Lorenzoni
4 Assessing the Knowledge Landscape across Firms in AllianceNetworks and its Impact on Organizational Innovation Performance68
Beiqing (Emery) Yao and Susan McEvily
5 Generative Interactions: The New Source of CompetitiveAdvantage 86
Yves Morieux, Mark Blaxill, and Vladislav Boutenko
Part II Successful Business Strategies during Periods ofIndustry Structuring and Restructuring 111
6 Sustaining Superior Performance through a Bubble: Inter-firmDifferences in the e-Consulting Industry 113
M. Julia Prats and Ashish Nanda
7 Delaying Market Entry: How Long Is Too Long? 139
Moren Lévesque and Dean A. Shepherd
8 Robust Capabilities? An Empirical Study of Incumbent-EntrantProduct Development Capabilities after Radical Technological Change153
Neil Jones
9 The Form of Departure: The Consequences of PresumptiveAdaptation of Franchising Knowledge for Local Network Growth175
Gabriel Szulanski and Robert Jensen
Part III Superior Management and Governance Practices205
10 A Bayesian Application of the Resource-based View: Narrowingthe 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 EmpiricalStudy on their Impact on Sustained Superior Performance 236
Johanna Mair
12 Impacts of Justification Behavior: The Forgotten Costs ofCorporate Governance? 251
Michael Nippa and Kerstin Petzold
13 A New Approach to Improving Board Vigilance: Shift the Focusto Board Process 268
Ann C. Mooney and Sydney Finkelstein
Index 289
