The SMS Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Capabilities Emergence, Development, and Change,9781405103046

The SMS Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Capabilities Emergence, Development, and Change

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9781405103046
ISBN10: 1405103043
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-09-19
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

This Handbook looks at how the resources and capabilities of organizations emerge and develop over time. Written by leading figures in the field. Presents original new theory. Features ground-breaking empirical studies. Draws on a broad range of empirical methods - case studies, statistical analysis, and simulations. Offers thought-provoking commentary on streams of research. Provides a basis for future research and practice.

Author Biography

Constance E. Helfat is Professor of Strategy and Technology at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Her work has been published widely in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science and the Journal of Industrial Economics. She has also published a book entitled Investment Choices in Industry (1988). She serves on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal, Management Science Organization Science and Strategic Organization.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors viii
Acknowledgements ix
1 Stylized Facts Regarding the Evolution of Organizational Resources and Capabilities 1(14)
Constance E. Helfat
Part I Emergence of Resources and Capabilities
2 Dominance by Birthright: Entry of Prior Radio Producers and Competitive Ramifications in the US Television Receiver Industry
15(28)
Steven Kleppen and Kenneth L. Simons
3 The Nature, Sources, and Consequences of Firm Differences in the Early History of the Semiconductor Industry
43(33)
Daniel Holbrook, Wesley M. Cohen, David A. Hounshell, and Steven Kleppen
4 Superstores and the Evolution of Firm Capabilities in American Bookselling
76(21)
Daniel M.G. Raff
5 Commentary on Chapters by Klepper and Simons, by Holbrook et al., and by Raff.
97(3)
Keith Pavitt
6 Imprinting and the Evolution of Firm Capabilities
100(4)
Daniel A. Levinthal
7 Imprinting or Emergence, Structure or Rules, or Why Dirty Dancing Is Always Better When You Are More Than Two
104(6)
Bruce Kogut
8 Strategic Capabilities in Emerging Fields: Navigating Ambiguity, Leveraging Social Capital, and Creating Identity in Silicon Alley
110(11)
Theresa K. Lant
Part II Incremental Development and Change
9 Why Do Firms Tend to Become Different?
121(13)
Birger Wernerfelt
10 Firm Capabilities and Competition and Industrial Policies in a "History Friendly" Model of the Evolution of the Computer Industry
134(33)
Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Lumi Orsenigo, and Sidney G. Winter
11 Problem-solving Behaviors, Organizational Forms, and the Complexity of Tasks
167(26)
Giovanni Dosi, Mike Hobday, and Luigi Marengo
12 Product Sequencing: Co-evolution of Knowledge, Capabilities, and Products
193(25)
Constance E. Helfat and Ruth S. Raubitschek
13 Path-dependent and Path-breaking Change: Reconfiguring Business Resources Following Acquisitions in the US Medical Sector, 1978-1995
218(35)
Samma Karim and Will Mitchell
14 Commentary on Karim-Mitchell and Helfat-Raubitschek Chapters
253(4)
James Brian Quinn
15 The Relational Organization: From Relational Rents to Alliance Capability
257(7)
Harbin Singh
16 Innovative Routines in Large Firms: What the Evidence Suggests
264(5)
Keith Pavitt
17 The Evolutionary Roots of Resource-based Theory
269(6)
Jay B. Barney
Part III Dealing with Radical Change
18 The Satisficing Principle in Capability Learning
275(21)
Sidney G. Winter
19 Untangling the Origins of Competitive Advantage
296(30)
Iain M. Cockburn, Rebecca M. Henderson, and Scott Stern
20 Strategy and Circumstance: The Response of American Firms to Japanese Competition in Semiconductors, 1980-1995
326(15)
Richard N. Langlois and W. Edward Steinmueller
21 Dynamic Capabilities: What Are They?
341(23)
Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Jeffrey A. Martin
22 Leadership, Capabilities, and Technological Change: The Transformation of NCR in the Electronic Era
364(29)
Richard S. Rosenbloom
23 Capabilities, Cognition, and Inertia: Evidence from Digital Imaging
393(20)
Mary Tripsas and Giovanni Gavetti
24 Leadership and Cognition: Or, What Could Those Folks at the Top Have Been Thinking? Commentary on Chapters by Rosenbloom and Tripsas and Gavetti
413(2)
Steven W. Usselman
25 Toward Developing an Organizational Capability of Learning from Mistakes
415(7)
Sydney Finkelstein
26 Resources, Capabilities, Core Competencies, Invisible Assets, and Knowledge Assets: Label Proliferation and Theory Development in the Field of Strategic Management
422(5)
Jay B. Barney
Index 427

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