Redesigning the firm / edited by Edward H. Bowman and Bruce M. Kogut.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bowman, Edward H., editor.

Kogut, Bruce Mitchel, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial management.

Industrial organization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (292 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Featuring contributions from the faculty of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, this study explores how best to organize a firm. It considers the various strategies used to compete in the changing world market, owing to innovations and new principles of organization developed in Japan.

Contents:

CONTENTS; PARTICIPANTS; 1. Introduction: Redesigning the Firm; I: Boundaries, Networks, and Corporate Control; 2. The Anomalies of Corporate Governance; 3. Sustainable Competitive Advantage Through Alliance; 4. Supplier and Buyer Networks; II: Speed, Variety, and Flexibility; 5. Product Innovation in Mature Firms; 6. Strategies for Product Variety: Lessons from the Auto Industry; 7. How Control Systems Can Support Organizational Flexibility; III: Form, Space, and Time; 8. The Design and Redesign of Organizational Form; 9. Organizing the Global Multinational Firm

10. How Firms Adapt to Evolving MarketsIV: Summary; 11. Modularity and Permeability as Principles of Design; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1995.

Includes bilbliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-770358-5

1-280-52723-4

0-19-802478-9

1-4294-0650-X

OCLC:

476011459