The Flexible Firm: Capability Management in Network OrganizationsJulian Birkinshaw, Peter Hagström OUP Oxford, 16/03/2000 - 246 من الصفحات The pace of change in the business world is becoming faster. This book provides a detailed account of the network-like organization 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. Paradoxically, such capabilities are developed not only at the firm level, but also in the relationships the firm has with its external network and in the operating units within the firm. This perspective has implications for the 'resource-based view of the firm' in the field of strategic management, suggesting that the development of capabilities is a more complex and multi-level process than was traditionally thought. 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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Capability Management in Network Organizations Julian Birkinshaw, Peter Hagström. Figures 1.1 . Two forms of network organization 1.2 . Overview of chapters 2.1 . Parts characteristics and suppliers ' involvement 2.2 . Inter - ...
Capability Management in Network Organizations Julian Birkinshaw, Peter Hagström. Figures 1.1 . Two forms of network organization 1.2 . Overview of chapters 2.1 . Parts characteristics and suppliers ' involvement 2.2 . Inter - ...
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... Network Organizations ' was with us from the start , we initially saw it as an umbrella theme , broad enough to cover most issues that are germane to the study of contemporary organizations . However , as the research progressed , it ...
... Network Organizations ' was with us from the start , we initially saw it as an umbrella theme , broad enough to cover most issues that are germane to the study of contemporary organizations . However , as the research progressed , it ...
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Capability Management in Network Organizations Julian Birkinshaw, Peter Hagström. suppliers , competitors , and other entities . This network perspective has been used in the field of organization studies for decades , and in recent ...
Capability Management in Network Organizations Julian Birkinshaw, Peter Hagström. suppliers , competitors , and other entities . This network perspective has been used in the field of organization studies for decades , and in recent ...
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... organizations is the recurring argument that they are a new or emerging form of organization . Many authors have observed the increasing use of alliances and network relationships , and argued that they are Network Relationships and the ...
... organizations is the recurring argument that they are a new or emerging form of organization . Many authors have observed the increasing use of alliances and network relationships , and argued that they are Network Relationships and the ...
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... organization of work . In a vastly simplified form , the argument is that network organizations will come to dominate the information age through their inherent flexibility and responsiveness in the way that large hierarchical firms ...
... organization of work . In a vastly simplified form , the argument is that network organizations will come to dominate the information age through their inherent flexibility and responsiveness in the way that large hierarchical firms ...
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Task Partitioning Communication Activities | 21 |
Linking External Demands | 43 |
The ExperienceCurve of Capability Management | 63 |
The Role of External Linkages | 82 |
The Need to Develop | 106 |
Communities of Practice in a HighTechnology Firm | 126 |
Insights from Five | 149 |
Information Technology | 194 |
Relaxing the Boundaries of the Firm | 207 |
References | 213 |
Index | 227 |
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الصفحة 154 - The marvel is that in a case like that of a scarcity of one raw material, without an order being issued, without more than perhaps a handful of people knowing the cause, tens of thousands of people whose identity could not be ascertained by months of investigation, are made to use the material or its products more sparingly; ie, they move in the right direction.
الصفحة 45 - Uncertainty is defined as the difference between the amount of information required to perform the task and the amount of information already possessed by the organization (1973, p.
الصفحة 11 - Capabilities, in contrast, refer to a firm's capacity to deploy resources, usually in combination, using organizational processes, to effect a desired end.
الصفحة 66 - Organizations are systems of interdependent activities linking shifting coalitions of participants; the systems are embedded in dependent on continuing exchanges with and constituted by - the environments in which they operate.
الصفحة 128 - Implicit learning is the acquisition of knowledge that takes place largely independently of conscious attempts to learn and largely in the absence of explicit knowledge about what was acquired.
الصفحة 11 - A firm's resources and capabilities include all of the financial, physical, human, and organizational assets used by a firm to develop, manufacture, and deliver products or Services to its customers." AMIT/SCHOEMAKER (1993) „[...] will be defined as stocks of available factors that are owned or controlled by the firm.
الصفحة 151 - The rest of the chapter is organized as follows, In section 2 we...
الصفحة 104 - Where the co-ordination and accumulation of knowledge is key, and where patterns of belief and attitude are important, other disciplines will have more to say
الصفحة 129 - Indeed, it is argued that this is not possible due to the pure informal nature of communities of practice (Wenger 1998). Thus, we must satisfy ourselves at this point with a definition that captures this fluidity and intangibility. A group of people informally and contextually bound who are applying a common competence in the pursuit of a common enterprise (Brown 6c Duguid 1991; Lave & Wenger 1991; Snyder 1997; Wenger 1998).