Technology, Organization, and Competitiveness: Perspectives on Industrial and Corporate Change

✍ Scribed by Giovanni Dosi, David J. Teece, Josef Chytry

• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 357
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book brings together the work of leading international thinkers working in the overlapping areas of economics, organization studies, business history, corporate strategy, and innovation. There is a growing awareness that the perspectives of a single discipline are unable to capture and explain the complexities and dynamics of firm behaviour, organizational structure, and corporate strategy. All the chapters in this book are drawn from the pioneering journal Industrial and Corporate Change opening up the inter-disciplinary coverage of the journal to a wider readership. Here readers will find extensive and original contributions from economists Oliver Williamson, Richard Nelson, and Martin Fransman; sociology and organization theorists Mark Granovetter and Gary Hamilton; business historians William Lazonick and Jonathan West; innovation scholars Parimal Patel, Keith Pavitt, and Giovanni Dosi; and business strategists David Teece and Gary Pisano. This book will be vital reading for all those who want to get to grips with the best of current international thinking on the dynamic interplay of technology, organization, and competition.

✦ Table of Contents

0198290985......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of contributors......Page 9
INTRODUCTION......Page 12
PART A: THE FIRM......Page 26
TRANSACTION COST ECONOMICS AND ORGANIZATION THEORY......Page 28
COASE REVISITED: BUSINESS GROUPS IN THE MODERN ECONOMY......Page 78
VARIETIES OF HIERARCHIES AND MARKETS: AN INTRODUCTION......Page 116
INFORMATION, KNOWLEDGE, VISION, AND THEORIES OP THE FIRM......Page 158
THE DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES OF FIRMS: AN INTRODUCTION......Page 204
PART B: FROM FIRMS TO INDUSTRIES......Page 224
TECHNOLOGICAL DISCONTINUITIES, ORGANIZATIONAL CAPABILITIES, AND STRATEGIC COMMITMENTS......Page 226
ORGANIZATIONAL INTEGRATION AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: EXPLAINING STRATEGY AND PERFORMANCE IN AMERICAN INDUSTRY......Page 258
UNEVEN (AND DIVERGENT) TECHNOLOGICAL ACCUMULATION AMONG ADVANCED COUNTRIES: EVIDENCE AND A FRAMEWORK OF EXPLANATION......Page 300
THE CO-EVOLUTION OF TECHNOLOGY, INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE, AND SUPPORTING INSTITUTIONS......Page 330
C......Page 348
E......Page 349
G......Page 350
J......Page 351
M......Page 352
P......Page 353
S......Page 354
U......Page 355
Z......Page 356