Corporate technological competence and the evolution of technological diversification / Felicia M. Fai.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fai, Felicia M., 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diversification in industry.

Technological innovations.

Technological innovations--Management.

Organizational change.

Physical Description:

xi, 194 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, [2003]

Contents:

1.2 Evolutionary influences 3

1.3 Resource-based theory and complementary aspects 6

1.4 Diversification 8

1.5 The firm as a principal source of innovation and growth 10

1.6 Technological diversification 15

1.7 Technological diversification

implications for the firm 18

1.8 Relationships between product diversification and technological diversification 20

2 The data 29

2.2 The indicators of technological innovation and the validity of patents 29

2.3 The validity of patents to the evolutionary approach and the resource-based/competence-based theory of the firm 34

2.4 US patent data 35

2.5 The Reading University database 36

2.6 The research-specific dataset 40

3 Industry-specific competencies and industrial convergence 46

3.2 Methodology 52

3.3 Industry-specific competencies and path-dependency 53

3.4 Inter-industry technological convergence 54

3.5 Identifying emerging technological paradigms and fields of convergence 56

4 Technological persistence in the evolution of corporate technological competence 66

4.2 The persistent characteristics of innovation within firms, but variety between firms 66

4.3 Methodology 69

4.4 Measurement indicators 70

4.5 Results of tests for persistence in profiles of corporate technological specialization 72

5 Technological diversification 88

5.2 The existence of diversified firms 88

5.3 Why do firms diversify? 89

5.4 The concept and measurement of diversification 91

5.5 The prevalence of diversification across firms 93

6 Scale and scope in technology: influences on diversification 109

6.2 Historical background 112

6.3 Methodology 115

6.4 Results 120

7 Technological inter-relatedness and complex diversification 131

7.2 The balance of technological breadth and depth over time 134

7.3 Combining scale-induced, drift-other effects and breadth-depth issues 141.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 176-188) and index.

ISBN:

1840643536

OCLC:

50738328