Julian Birkinshaw / Peter Hagström (eds.)

The Flexible Firm

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780199248551
• ISBN-10: 0199248559
• Artikelnr.: 21815696

Autorenporträt

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 Hagström 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 Örjan Sölvell, Oxford, 1997). Previous positions include Assistant Professor at the Harvard Business School.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction
* 1.: Julian Birkinshaw: Network Relationships Inside and Outside the
Firm, and the Development of Capabilities
* Part I: Managing Relationships in the External Network
* 2.: Maurizio Sobrero and Omar Toulan: Task Partitioning,
Communication Activities, and the Performance of Supplier Relations
in Product Development
* 3.: Julian Birkinshaw, Omar Toulan, and David Arnold: Global Account
Management: Linking External Demands with Internal Abilities
* Part II: Innovation in the External Network
* 4.: Henrik Bresman: The Experience-Curve of Capability Management
* 5.: Patrick Regnér: Strategy in the Periphery: The Role of External
Linkages in Strategy Creation
* 6.: Stefan Jonsson: Innovation in the Networked Firm: The Need to
Develop New Types of Interface Competence
* 7.: Robin Teigland: Communities of Practice in a High-Technology Firm
* Part III: Managing the Internal Network
* 8.: Julian Birkinshaw and Carl F. Fey: Building an Internal Market
System: Insights from Five RandD Organizations
* 9.: Niklas Arvidsson: Knowledge Management in the Multinational
Enterprise
* 10.: Peter Hagström: New Wine in Old Bottles: Information Technology
Evolution in Firm Strategy and Structure
* 11.: Peter Hagström: Relaxing the Boundaries of the Firm