Strategy, Economic Organization, and the Knowledge Economy: The Coordination of Firms and Resources

Foss, Nicolai J.

ISBN 10: 0199240647 / ISBN 13: 9780199240647

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2005

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The advent of the knowledge economy changes the ways in which firms organize their activities and how they strategize in the market place. This volume lays the foundations for an analysis of these phenomena. It shows how knowledge-based approaches in mana.

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• Titel: Strategy, Economic Organization, and the Knowledge Economy: The Coordination of Firms and Resources
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0199240647
• ISBN-13: 9780199240647
• Einband: Gebunden
• Zustand: New
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Inhaltsangabe

The rise of the knowledge economy has far-reaching implications for the nature of economic organization as well as firm strategy. Not surprisingly, thinking in management studies as well as in economics has been profoundly affected by these changes. Thus, management thinking in particular has been increasingly characterized by a schism between those who advocate 'knowledge' or 'capabilities-based' approaches in the strategy and organization fields and those who adopt more economics-influenced approaches, notably the economics of organization.

This book is a sustained attempt to overcome this schism. Its basic argument is that knowledge-based and organizational economics approaches are not substitutes but complements. In particular, organizational economics has much to contribute with respect to furthering the understanding of efficient organization and strategy in the emerging knowledge economy. This theme is taken through several theoretical as well as empirical variations. Themes such as the incentive liabilities of flat, 'knowledge-based' organizations and the role of complementary HRM practices for fostering knowledge sharing and creation are extensively treated. The book thus contains important implications for knowledge management, organizational design, and firm strategy."

The book encompasses nine chapters which critically examine current thinking on strategy, and organization. The reasoning is non-technical. While primarily aimed at a management studies audience, economists and other social scientists will also benefit from it, including Advanced Students, Academics, and Researchers.

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Nicolai J. Foss is Professor of Economic Organization at the Copenhagen Business School. He is author or editor of numerous books, including Governance, Competence, and Entrepreneurship: Advances in Economic Strategy Research (edited with Volker Mahnke, OUP, 2000) and Resources, Firms, and Strategy: A Reader in the Resource-Based Perspective (OUP, 1997).