Dynamic Capabilities Between Firm Organisation and Local Systems of Production

Dynamic Capabilities Between Firm Organisation and Local Systems of Production
Author: Riccardo Leoncini
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2007-12-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134147384

Changes in technology and demand require firms to learn how to continuously reshape unique and non-imitable resources and competences. A firm‘s capacity to achieve this is captured by the concept of dynamic capabilities. This book offers an analysis of how firms manage to reconfigure their pool of idiosyncratic resources, skills and competencies to

Business Networks in Clusters and Industrial Districts

Business Networks in Clusters and Industrial Districts
Author: Fiorenza Belussi
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2009-09-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134048556

During the 1980s the Marshallian concept of industrial district (ID) became widely popular due to the resurgence of interest in the reasons that make the agglomeration of specialised industries a territorial phenomenon worth being analysed. The analysis of clusters and IDs has often been limited, considering only the local dimension of the created business networks. The external links of these systems have been systematically under-evaluated. This book offers a deep insight into the evolution of these systems and the internal-external mechanism of knowledge circulation and learning. This means that the access to external knowledge (information or R&D cooperative research) or to productive networks (global supply chains) is studied in order to describe how external knowledge is absorbed and how local clusters or districts become global systems. It provides a unified approach; showing that existing capabilities expand when locally embedded knowledge is combined with accessible external knowledge. In this view, external knowledge linkages reduce the danger of cognitive ‘lock-in’ and ‘over-embeddedness’, which may become important obstacles to local learning and innovation when technological trajectories and global economic conditions change. A selection of international experts

Knowledge Networks and Tourism

Knowledge Networks and Tourism
Author: Michelle McLeod
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2014-11-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135036020

The receipt of knowledge is a key ingredient by which the tourism sector can adjust and adapt to its dynamic environment. However although its importance has long been recognised the fragmentation within the sector, largely as a result of it being comprised of small and medium sized businesses, makes understanding knowledge management challenging. This book applies knowledge management and social network theories to the business of tourism to shed light on successful operations of tourism knowledge networks. It contributes specifically to understanding a network perspective of the tourism sector, the information needs of tourism businesses, social network dynamics of tourism business operation, knowledge flows within the tourism sector and the transformation of the tourism sector through knowledge networks. Social Network Analysis is applied to fully explore the growth and maintenance of tourism knowledge networks and the relationships between tourism sector stakeholders in relation to their knowledge requirements. Knowledge Networks and Tourism will be valuable reading for all those interested in successful operations of tourism knowledge networks.

Internationalization, Technological Change and the Theory of the Firm

Internationalization, Technological Change and the Theory of the Firm
Author: Nicola De Liso
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2010-09-13
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113693412X

This book focuses on three main areas, each of which is central to economic theorising: firms’ organisation and behaviour, technological change and the process of globalisation. What this collection provides is a broad view of the three topics by concentrating on different aspects of each of them, and utilising different methods of investigation.

Internationalization and Organizations

Internationalization and Organizations
Author: Eric Davoine
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2024-04-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1040010679

To fill in the gap in theoretical and empirical aspects in the existing international management literature, the book covers a broad variety of issues relating to the challenges facing companies after the recent worldwide crises of financial, sanitary, and geopolitical nature. The book offers an overview of these challenges along three axes: the challenges related to the processes of adapting to the international environment, the challenges affecting the actors of internationalization, and finally the challenges related to the specifics of the international context. The book aims to offer a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical and practical attributes related to the adaptation processes in international business, the cultural evolutions of actors, and the changes in the international environment. It also seeks to help managers and scholars alike to better understand the new challenges in diverse aspects pertaining to international management. To cover these issues, the book addresses topics, which up till now have not been investigated in depth or have not been researched at all. It includes both theoretical and managerial viewpoints and various international examples.

Territory, Specialization and Globalization in European Manufacturing

Territory, Specialization and Globalization in European Manufacturing
Author: Helena Marques
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 199
Release: 2010-10-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136922741

This book provides an explanation for the differences observed in the impact of globalization which is based on the influence of the territory and of the production specialization of the firms.

Epistemic Economics and Organization

Epistemic Economics and Organization
Author: Anna Grandori
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2013-04-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136679049

This book proposes a new approach to economics, management and organization that should help in making economic organization ‘wise’, ‘innovative’ and ‘robust’ in an uncertain and risky world. Although the modern economy and society is ‘knowledge intensive’, Anna Grandori argues that the dominant economic, organizational and behavioural models neglect to a large extent the problem of valid knowledge construction and effective knowledge governance. The book integrates inputs from economics and behavioural science with insights from the philosophy of knowledge to define new micro-foundations: neither a calculative, deductive and omniscient ‘rational actor’; nor an experiential, adaptive and biased ‘behavioural actor’; but a knowledgeable and imaginative ‘epistemic actor’. The implications for contracts and organizations, sustained also by insights from law, are shown to be far reaching, including a new view of the nature of the firm as an entity-establishing agreement under which to discover uses of resources under uncertainty, and as a democratic institution.

Innovation and Economic Crisis

Innovation and Economic Crisis
Author: Daniele Archibugi
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 229
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1136641157

The recent financial and economic crisis has spurred a lot of interest among scholars and public audience. Strangely enough, the impact of the crisis on innovation has been largely underestimated. This books can be regarded as a complementary reading for those interested in the effect of the crisis with a particular focus on Europe.

The Past, Present and Future of International Business and Management

The Past, Present and Future of International Business and Management
Author: Timothy Devinney
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 668
Release: 2010-07-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0857240854

A volume that concentrates on the substantive gaps in the IB/IM field and addresses whether these gaps are resolvable with the theoretical and methodological toolkit.