Julian Birkinshaw / Peter Hagström (eds.)

The Flexible Firm

Capability Management in Network Organizations
Herausgeber: Birkinshaw, Julian; Hagström, Peter

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together eleven chapters, each focusing on a particular aspect of capability development in the networked firm. It is based on research in five big Swedish firms (Ericsson, Volvo, Skandia, Pharmacia & Upjohn, SE Banken) as well as a number of other well-known firms such as HP and ABB. The book will be essential reading for advanced students in strategy and international business wanting to keep abreast of current thinking and company practices.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 526g
• ISBN-13: 9780198296515
• ISBN-10: 0198296517
• Artikelnr.: 21762274

Autorenporträt

See above.

Inhaltsangabe

* Chapter 1: Introduction: Network relationships inside and outside the
firm, and the development of capabilities
* Part I: Managing Relationships in the External Network
* Chapter 2: Task Partitioning, Communication Activities, and the
Performance of Supplier Relations in New Product Development
* Chapter 3: Global Account Management: Linking external demands with
internal abilities
* Part II: Innovation in the External Network
* Chapter 4: The Experience-Curve of Capability Management: How to
build a superior capacity to integrate external knowledge in
high-technology RandD
* Chapter 5: Strategy in the Periphery: The role of external linkages
in strategy creation
* Chapter 6: Innovation in the Networked Firm: The need for developing
new types of interface competence
* Chapter 7: Communities of Practice in a High-Technology Firm
* Part III: Managing the Internal Network
* Chapter 8: Building an Internal Market System: Insights from five
RandD organizations
* Chapter 9: Knowledge Management in the Multinational Enterprise
* Chapter 10: New Wine in Old Bottles: IT evolution in firm strategy
and structure
* Chapter 11: Relaxing the Boundaries of the Firm
* Bibliography