Resources, Technology and Strategy

ISBN-13: 9780415439602 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 288 str.

Nicolai Foss;Paul L. Robertson;Nicolai Foss

Opis

Resources, Technology and Strategy brings together contributors from Europe, North America and Asia to consider the strategic relationship between technology and other resources, such as production capabilities, marketing prowess, finance and organisational culture.
Throughout the book, these experts take a critical approach to RBP (Resource-Based Perspective) in order to assess both its strengths and weaknesses. Case studies also highlight the importance of both having and not having strong technological capabilities in settings as diverse as the US semiconductor industry, small family manufacturing firms in Hong Kong and state-owned enterprises in China.

Spis treści

List of tables and figures, The contributors, 1 Introduction: resources, technology and strategy, 2 Equilibrium vs. evolution in the resource-based perspective: the conflicting legacies of Demsetz and Penrose, 3 Knowledge and capabilities: a new view of the firm, 4 Synthesising resource-based, evolutionary and neoclassical thought: resource-advantage theory as a general theory of competition, 5 A processual account of innovative capabilities, 6 Product and process architectures in the management of knowledge resources, 7 Building innovative assets and dynamic coherence in multi-technology companies, 8 Dynamic complementarities and technology acquisition, 9 Economic organisation and the accumulation of rent-yielding assets, 10 Capabilities and vertical disintegration in process technology: the case of semiconductor fabrication equipment, 11 Technological capabilities and the strategies of small manufacturing firms: the case of Hong Kong, 12 Technological capabilities and foreign direct investment in China, Index

O autorze

Nicolai J. Foss, Paul L. Robertson