The Dynamic Firm: The Role of Technology, Strategy, Organization, and Regions

Contents......Page 12
List of Figures......Page 14
List of Tables......Page 16
List of Contributors......Page 17
1. Perspectives on Firm Dynamics......Page 20
PART I: TECHNOLOGY IN THE FIRM......Page 32
2. Reinterpreting the Resource-Capability View of the Firm: A Case of the Development-Production Systems of the Japanese Auto-Makers......Page 34
3. Science, Technological Advance and Economic Growth......Page 64
4. \"Sticky Information\" and the Locus of Problem Solving: Implications for Innovation......Page 79
5. Localized Technological Change and the Evolution of Standards as Economic Institutions......Page 97
PART II: STRATEGY/ORGANIZATION......Page 120
6. Learning how to Govern and Learning how to Solve Problems: On the Co-Evolution of Competences, Conflicts and Organizational Routines......Page 122
7. Design Issues for Innovative Firms: Bureaucracy, Incentives and Industrial Structure......Page 153
8. A Three-Dimensional Model of Changing Internal Structure in the Firm......Page 185
9. The Wide (and Increasing) Spread of Technological Competencies in the World\'s Largest Firms: A Challenge to Conventional Wisdom......Page 211
10. A Theory of the Firm\'s Knowledge-Creation Dynamics......Page 233
11. Dynamics of Overlapping Networks and Strategic Actions by the International Firm......Page 261
PART III: REGIONS......Page 280
12. The Globalization of Technology: What Remains of the Product-Cycle Model?......Page 282
13. Globalization, Technological Change and the Spatial Organization of Economic Activity......Page 308
14. Regional Clusters and Firm Strategy......Page 334
15. Global Location Behavior and Organizational Dynamics of Japanese Electronics Firms and Their Impact on Regional Economies......Page 362
16. The Geographic Foundations of Industrial Performance......Page 403
17. International Diffusion of Knowledge: Isolating Mechanisms and the Role of the MNE......Page 421
18. The Geographies of Strategic Competence: Borrowing from Social and Educational Psychology to Sketch an Activity and Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm......Page 436
19. The Role of Geography in the Process of Innovation and the Sustainable Competitive Advantage of Firms......Page 459
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