The Dynamic Firm The Role of Technology, Strategy, Organization, and Regions [Paperback]

Business Strategy is becoming increasingly pluralist, drawing on the insights of different disciplines and business practice in different parts of the world. This book brings together the work and ideas of leading international scholars working in the field under three main headings--Technology, Strategy and Organization, and Regions--to explore from different perspectives the dynamic interplay between the technology of a firm; its strategies; organizational choices; and issues of place, region, and location. Together, the contributors address the challenge of explaining the long-run competitiveness of firms in an ever more global world. This book will be a benchmark for anybody wanting to keep abreast of leading-edge strategic thinking.

1. Perspectives on Firm Dynamics,Peter Hagstr?m with Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.
Part I Technology in the Firm
2. Reinterpreting the Resource-Capability View of the Firm: A Case of the Development-Production Systems of the Japanese Auto Makers,Takahiro Fujimoto
3. Science, Technological Advance and Economic Growth,Richard Nelson and Nathan Rosenberg
4. Sticky Information and the Locus of Problem Solving: Implications for Innovation,Erik von Hipple
5. Localized Technological Change and the Evolution of Standards as Economic Institutions,Cristiano Antonelli
Part II Strategy/Organization
6. Learning How to Govern and Learning How to Solve Problems: On the Co-Evolution of Competences, Conflicts and Organizational Routines,Giovanni Dosi and Benjamin Coriat
7. Design Issues for Innovative Firms: Bureaucracy, Incentives, and Industrial Structure,David J. Teece
8. A Three-Dimensional Model of Changing Internal Structure in the Firm,Peter Hagstrom and Gunnar Hedlund
9. The Wide (and Increasing) Spread of Technological Competencies in the World's Largest Firms: A Challenge to Conventional Wisdom,Plcw