Annabelle Gawer presents cutting-edge contributions from 24 top international scholars from 19 universities across Europe, the USA and Asia, from the disciplines of strategy, economics, innovation, organization studies and knowledge management. The novel insights assembled in this volume...

Wem gehören die deutschen börsennotierten Unternehmen? Wie werden sie geführt und welche Strategien verfolgen sie? Wie haben sich Eigentum, Governance und Strategien in den letzten 30 Jahren verändert und welche Zukunft liegt vor deutschen börsennotierten Unternehmen? Das System der...

Im Zuge eines fortschreitenden Wandels von der Industriegesellschaft zur Informations- und Wissensgesellschaft stellt sich die Frage, wie die Ressource Wissen in Organisationen als Produktionsfaktor entwickelt und eingesetzt werden kann. Das Lehrbuch behandelt - gemä ︢dem Konzept eines...

1. Introduction -- 2. Individual-level influences -- 3. Firm- and team-level influences -- 4. External environmental influences -- 5. Relationships, networks, and social capital -- 6. Organizational learning -- 7. Capabilities -- 8. Orientation and strategy -- 9. Performance and innovation outcomes.

1. The Chaebol problem and the economic policy dilemma -- 2. Industrial policies and the growth of the Chaebol -- 3. Critical review of the traditional perception of the Chaebol problem -- 4. A new interpretation of the Chaebol problem and evaluation of Chaebol policy -- 5. The role of...

1. Introduction -- 2. Adaptation, innovation and the flexible organization -- 3. Argentinian business environment -- 4. Adaptive responses under competitive pressures -- 5. Case study : Sidus Group -- 6. Case study : Laboratorio DERSA -- 7. Case study : AGD Aceitera General Deheza -- 8. Case...

Paul Vlaar contends that strategic alliances and other forms of cooperation, such as buyer-supplier relationships, joint ventures and offshoring initiatives, increasingly stand at the basis of competitive advantage. Although contracts and trust play a crucial role in such relationships, prior...

This comprehensive and innovative Handbook applies the tools of the economics of complexity to analyse the causes and effects of technological and structural change. It grafts the intuitions of the economics of complexity into the tradition of analysis based upon the Schumpeterian and...