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 process that defies neat categorization and government policy should be to facilitate change rather than to direct it.

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The authors argue that innovation is a complex process that defies neat categorization and government policy should be to facilitate change rather than to direct it.
1 INTRODUCTION 2 CAPABILITIES, STRATEGY AND THE FIRM 3 A DYNAMIC THEORY OF THE BOUNDARIES OF THE FIRM 4 VERTICAL INTEGRATION IN THE EARLY AMERICAN AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY 5 EXTERNAL CAPABILITIES AND MODULAR SYSTEMS 6 INERTIA AND INDUSTRIAL CHANGE 7 INNOVATION, NETWORKS AND VERTICAL INTEGRATION 8 CONCLUSION
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ISBN
9780415121194
Publisert
1995-07-06
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
430 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
200

Biographical note

Richard N. Langlois is Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. His research interests include the economics of organization, the economics of technology, and economic history. He is the editor of Economics as a Process: Essays in the New Institutional Economics (1986) and the lead author of Microelectronics: An Industry in Transition (1988). Paul L. Robertson is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics and Management at University College, University of New South Wales. In recent years, he has taught strategic and project management as well as economic history. In addition to many articles, he is the co-author, with Sidney Pollard, of The British Shipbuilding Industry, 1870–1914 (1979).