This book provides a detailed account of the network-like organizational forms that some firms are adopting to make themselves more flexible and responsive to changing technologies and customer demands. As these organizations become more pervasive, the winners will be those firms that develop the specific capabilities that are needed to thrive in a networked world.
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Julian Birkinshaw is Assistant Professor of Strategy and International Management at the London Business School. His research focuses on strategy and organization in large multinational firms, and on such issues as entrepreneurship, network organization, and knowledge management. He is the author of Entrepreneurship in the Global Firm (Sage, 2000) and co-editor of Multinational Corporate Evolution and Subsidiary Development (with Neil Hood, Macmillan, 1998). He was previously Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Business, Stockholm School of Economics. Peter Hagstrom is Assistant Professor at the Institute of International Business, Stockholm School of Economics. His research focuses on the use of information systems as an enabler of change in large firms. He is the author of The Wired MNC (Institute of International Business, 1991), and co-editor of The Dynamic Firm (with Alfred Chandler and Orjan Solvell, Oxford, 1997). Previous positions include Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School.
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Over the last decade the literature on strategic management has come to be dominated by the resource-based view of the firm, a theoretical perspective which is concerned with understanding how the firm's resources and capabilities can lead to competitive advantage. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
external codified sources, external integrative capability, external integration project, strategy content theories, global account management, internal market system, strategy content research, internal market model, strategy creation processes, strategic puzzle, creative motor, assimilation practices, electrohydraulic systems, strategy process research, series quality assurance, resource spheres, subsidiary managers, strategy motors, strategic management theory, organizational sections, corporate evaluations, external capabilities, capability management, integrative capabilities, perception gaps Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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external codified sources, external integrative capability, external integration project, strategy content theories, global account management, internal market system, strategy content research, internal market model, strategy creation processes, strategic puzzle, creative motor, assimilation practices, electrohydraulic systems, strategy process research, series quality assurance, resource spheres, subsidiary managers, strategy motors, strategic management theory, organizational sections, corporate evaluations, external capabilities, capability management, integrative capabilities, perception gaps Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
American Skandia, Julian Birkinshaw, Patrick Regnér, Icon Medialab, Networked Firm, Niklas Arvidsson, Henrik Bresman, Omega Anova, Robin Teigland, East European, Peter Hagström, Eastern Europe, Designers Purchasers Pre-series, Julian Birkinshau, Skandia Life, Strategic Strategic, Volvo Aero, Percy Barnevik, Pre-screening Negotiation New!
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- Managing the Global Firm by Christopher A. Bartlett in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Strategic Planning for Information Systems by Prof John Ward on page 201, and Back Matter
- International Business by Les Dlabay in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Service Management (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) by Harvard Business Review in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Service Management and Marketing: Customer Management in Service Competition by Christian Gronroos in Back Matter
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- Performance Excellence Through Partnering (Infoline) (Infoline ASTD) by Darlene Van Tiem in Back Matter
- Globalization's Contradictions: Geographies of discipline, destruction and transformation by Dennis Conway in Back Matter
- Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm by Robert Latham on page 112
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