Using a series of twelve historical case-studies that are based on extensive archival research, this book explains why firms succeed or fail in communicating or transferring knowledge and discovering new expertise. By analysing how workable trade-offs between opposing forces have been achieved in the past, this study provides a set of guidelines for executives who embark upon inter-firm projects.
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'Overall, this is a most interesting and stimulating book, and one from which business historians will profit greatly - both for teaching purposes, and as a source of concepts and ideas to be used in future research.' - Business History
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The chapter shows how shipowners and agents designed contracts and employed a public communicating infrastructure to support transactions involving trade-related knowledge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
communicating infrastructure, contracting capability, multinational joint venture, paint business, motor ship, lateral links, interpersonal knowledge, joint learning, contractual elements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hong Kong, New York, Furness Withy, New Caledonian, Union Oil, World War, New Zealand, Far East, Broken Hill, Nickel Syndicate, Lever Brothers, Orient Paint, Standard Oil, John Swire, San Francisco, Stephen Furness, White Star, Elder Dempster, Fore River Company, Lewis Papers, Western Australia, Cathay Pacific Airways, Charles Curtis, English Company, Hall Line New!
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The chapter shows how shipowners and agents designed contracts and employed a public communicating infrastructure to support transactions involving trade-related knowledge. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
communicating infrastructure, contracting capability, multinational joint venture, paint business, motor ship, lateral links, interpersonal knowledge, joint learning, contractual elements Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hong Kong, New York, Furness Withy, New Caledonian, Union Oil, World War, New Zealand, Far East, Broken Hill, Nickel Syndicate, Lever Brothers, Orient Paint, Standard Oil, John Swire, San Francisco, Stephen Furness, White Star, Elder Dempster, Fore River Company, Lewis Papers, Western Australia, Cathay Pacific Airways, Charles Curtis, English Company, Hall Line New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- International Business (History of Management Thought, 17) by Peter J. Buckley in Back Matter
- The Economic Institutions of Capitalism by Oliver E. Williamson in Back Matter
- The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism (Degruyter Studies in Organization) by S. Gordon Redding in Back Matter
- The Multinational Traders (Routledge International Studies in Business History) by Geoffrey G Jones in Front Matter
- Women, Accounting and Narrative: Keeping Books in Eighteenth-Century England (Routledge Research in Gender and History) by Rebecca E. Connor in Front Matter
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