The Flexible Firm
Capability Management in Network Organizations
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 16 March 2000
- ISBN 9780198296515
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages246 pages
- Size 243x163x18 mm
- Weight 527 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous black and white figures and tables 0
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Short description:
What is the impact of the changing world of business on the way in which companies organize themselves? Based on detailed investigations inside such well-known and pioneering companies as Ericsson, Volvo, ABB, and Hewlett Packard, this book argues that companies are increasingly organized as networks. They are spinning off business to external companies, and breaking up their internal structures to make individuals more entrepreneurial and accountable for performance. This book describes the capabilities that companies need to develop in order to work effectively in this new networked form.
MoreLong description:
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.
Table of Contents:
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 R&D
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 R&D 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
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