[PDF] The Dynamic Firm eBook

Author : Alfred Dupont Chandler
Publisher :
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 24,19 MB
Release : 1998-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198290520

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Business Strategy is becoming increasingly pluralist, drawing on the insights of different disciplines and business practice in different parts of the world. This book brings together the work and ideas of leading international scholars working in the field under three main headings--Technology, Strategy and Organization, and Regions--to explore from different perspectives the dynamic interplay between the technology of a firm; its strategies; organizational choices; and issues of place, region, and location. Together, the contributors address the challenge of explaining the long-run competitiveness of firms in an ever more global world. This book will be a benchmark for anybody wanting to keep abreast of leading-edge strategic thinking.

Author : Alfred D. Chandler
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 25,68 MB
Release : 1999-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0191522570

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Business Strategy is becoming increasingly 'pluralist', drawing on the insights of different disciplines, and business practice in different parts of the world. This book brings together the work and ideas of leading international scholars working in the field under three main headings Technology, Strategy and Organization, and Regions. The purpose of the book is to explore from different perspectives the dynamic interplay between the technology of a firm; its strategies; organizational choices; and issues of place, region, and location. The contributors are Peter Hagström, Alfred Chandler, Takahiro Fujimoto, Richard Nelson, Nathan Rosenberg, Erik von Hippel, Cristiano Antonelli, Giovanni Dosi, Benjamin Coriat, David Teece, Gunnar Hedlund, Pari Patel, Keith Pavitt, Ikujiro Nonaka, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Lars-Gunnar Mattsson, John Cantwell, John Dunning, Michael Enright, Masahisa Fujita, Ryoichi Ishii, Allen Scott, Orjan Solvell, Ivo Zander, J-C Spender, and Michael Porter. Together they address the challenge of explaining the long-run competitiveness of firms in an ever more global world. This book will be a benchmark for anybody wanting to keep abreast of leading edge strategic thinking.

Author : John Sterman
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
Page : 982 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 2000-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780072389159

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Today’s leading authority on the subject of this text is the author, MIT Standish Professor of Management and Director of the System Dynamics Group, John D. Sterman. Sterman’s objective is to explain, in a true textbook format, what system dynamics is, and how it can be successfully applied to solve business and organizational problems. System dynamics is both a currently utilized approach to organizational problem solving at the professional level, and a field of study in business, engineering, and social and physical sciences.

Author : Richard N. Langlois
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 19,93 MB
Release : 1995-07-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134804962

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Traditonal western forms of corporate organization have been called into question by the success of Japanese keiretsu. Firms, Markets and Economic Change draws on industrial economics, business strategy, and economic history to develop an evolutionary model to show when innovation is best undertaken. The authors argue that innovation is a complex p

Author : Geert-Jan C.T.van Schijndel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 14,96 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3642466370

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This book aims to include the effects of a progressive personal tax into the deterministic dynamic theory of the firm. To this end the author investigates the impact of a progressive personal tax on the optimal dividend, financing and investment policy of a shareholder-controlled, value-maximising firm. More specifically, the principal aim is the justification of the thesis that during each stage of their evolution, firms will be controlled by investors in different tax brackets. With this aim in mind, the author develops a dynamic equilibrium and portfolio theory under certainty, which considers: - the market value of an arbitrary firm such that no excess demand for or supply of shares exists, - the portfolio selection of differently taxed investors, - the succession of differently taxed investors, who possess the shares of any value-maximizing firm, in the course of time, - the optimal resulting policy string and corresponding evolution of a firm in the course of time.

Author : Peter Hagström
Publisher :
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 44,71 MB
Release : 1994
Category :
ISBN :

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The purpose of this paper is to explore the internal organization of firms as they function. Instead of encompassing an explanation for why firms exist, we take the firm as given and look at it as a social construct, viz. we focus on people and their actions. Hierarchy (and the legal structure of the firm) ensures relative efficiency in a known, stable situation. The present competitive environment, however, places many pressures on the hierarchical model, and firms experiment with ways to deal with these in response to the simultaneous fundamental needs of (flexible) efficiency today and of positioning tomorrow. Hierarchy could answer these needs yesterday, but we believe its success has masked the effect of three structural dimensions: position, action, and knowledge. The paper ends with a more speculative section with an illustration of internal structures in a future firm.

Author : David J. Teece
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 49,60 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 019954512X

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How do firms grow? How do firms compete? An influential answer to these fundamental questions of business strategy lies in the concept of dynamic capabilities. David Teece provides a clear statement of his ideas, and a framework for managers wishing to assess their organization's strategy.

Author : Paul van Loon
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3642464823

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This volume is the final result of the research project ''Micro growth model", that was sponsored by the Central Research Pool of Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Apart from the University Council for this important financial support, I owe Prof. Dr. Fiet Verheyen very much for the way in which he introduced me into scientific circles and for the way in which he supervised and stimulated my work. Dr. Jan de Jong and Peter Janssen C. E. , Technical University of Eindhoven, piloted me safely through the mathe matics of optimal control theory and removed some technical barriers. Their help was indispensable for the success of this project. I would also like to mention the kind support of Prof. Dr. Jack Kleijnen, who gave me many valuable hints on how to present the results of this project. In this way I was able to contact with several resear chers inside and outside the Netherlands. Most grateful I am to Prof. Dr. Charles Tapiero, Jerusalem University, who commented on important parts of this book in a constructive way and who suggested many subjects for further research. Also Mr. Geert Jan vsn Schijndel, Tilburg University, should be mentioned here, because he closely read the work and I appreciated his remarks and corrections very much. Many collea gues have contributed to the results of this research project in a direct or indirect way. Especially I should like to mention my contacts with Prof. Dr.

Author : Kenneth Chilton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 29,35 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1461313139

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Business is becoming more global, more competitive, and more knowledge-intensive. Consequently, business executives are being required to reexamine and redefine fundamental relationships - both intra- and inter-company. The Dynamic American Firm explores the pivotal factors motivating the organizational changes that are sweeping American business, with a particular emphasis on the global marketplace. It provides a critical analysis of the forces that are shaping strategies and structures of American business, emphasizing that the process of adaption is more important than particular strategies and structures that develop along the way. The authors begin by illustrating the external factors that shape the development of the firm, including a combination of technological advances and increasingly global markets, and proceed to discuss corporate efforts to adapt to this external environment by means of changing relationships with other firms. They pay particular attention to the alliances that help American firms establish a presence in overseas markets, including the roles of mergers, acquisitions, strategic alliances, and joint ventures. The book concludes with a discussion of the internal changes taking place in American firms, including shifts in organizational strategy and structure, the elimination of middle management, and the development of work teams.