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

Alfred D. Chandler Jr (Editor), Peter Hagstrï¿1/2m (Editor), ï¿1/2rjan Sï¿1/2lvell (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0198290527 | ISBN-13: 978-0198290520 | Publication Date: June 25, 1998

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.

Editorial Reviews

Review

`a book that offers some profound observations - indeed, wisdom - about an emerging view of the contemporary firm and its functions. This view is global in scope and interdisciplinary in nature ... The editors have done a great job in planning, organizing, and integrating the chapters and ensuring consistency across them ... A measure of a good book is that it opens up debate on important issues. If this is true, then this is a great book that raises important questions, provides a lucid discussion of them, and offers many insights that can guide future theory development ... this is a magnificent book - one that should be widely read, discussed, and debated. Provocative, well documented, and well written, it adds richly to the literature and to our understanding of emerging theories of organizations. The Dynamic Firm is a book that will profoundly shape our thinking as well as the future of scholarship in our field.' Shaker A Zahra, Academy of Management Review, October 1999

28/01/2000

About the Author

Alfred D. Chandler is at Harvard University.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 488 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (June 25, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0198290527
• ISBN-13: 978-0198290520
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,947,823 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for textbook, July 21, 2001

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Jong Ho Lee (University of Durham, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Dynamic Firm: The Role of Technology, Strategy, Organization, and Regions (Paperback)

First of all, this edited book is designed to bring together multi-displinary academic areas, not least business studies, economics and economic geography, which are interested in the dynamics of the firm. It is nice and well structured in terms of economics of the firm. However, from a viewpoint of an economic geographer, some of papers which talk about economic geography of the corporate organisation are too plain, old fashioned. Nevertheless, it is recommended that this book illustrates excellent combination of attempts to understand the firm as a container, seeker and creater of competence itself.

0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars above average book, July 26, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Dynamic Firm: The Role of Technology, Strategy, Organization, and Regions (Paperback)

Sound and understandable book, but not excellent at all