Understanding Industrial and Corporate Change

by Giovanni Dosi, David J. Teece, Josef Chytry

Overview

Understanding Industrial and Corporate Change contains pioneering work on technological, organizational and institutional change from leading theorists and practitioners such as Joseph Stiglitz, Oliver Williamson, Masahiko Aoki, Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and Sidney Winter. Trans-disciplinary in it's approach, the book explores three distinct themes: Markets and Organizations; Evolutionary Theory and Technological Change; and Strategy, Capabilities, and Knowledge Management. The chapters are drawn from the journal Industrial and Corporate Change, reflecting the diverse contributions it has published since 1992 in such areas as business history, industrial organization, strategic management, organizational theory, innovation studies, organizational behavior, economics, political science, social psychology and sociology. Understanding Industrial and Corporate Change provides an accessible account of recent research and theory on technological, organizational and institutional change for academics and advanced students of Business and Management, Organization Theory, Technology and Innovation Studies and Industrial Economics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199269426
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/09/2004
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa

University of California, Berkeley

California College of the Arts

Table of Contents

Section I: Markets and Organizations1. Information, Finance, and Markets, Bruce Greenwald and Joseph E. Stiglitz2. Hierarchies, Markets, and Power in the Economy: An Economic Perspective, Oliver E. Williamson3. Routines and Other Recurring Action Patterns of Organizations: Contemporary Research Issues, Michael D. Cohen, Roger Burkhart, Giovanni Dosi, Massimo Edgidi, Luigi Marengo, Masimo Warglien, and Sidney G. Winter4. Costly and Bounded Rationality in Individual and Team Decision-Making, Roy RadnerSection II: Evolutionary Theory and Technological Change5. Economic Experiments, Nathan Rosenberg6. Heroes, Herds, and Hysteresis in Technological History: Thomas Edison and 'The Battle of the Systems' Reconsidered, Paul A. David7. The Evolution of Organizational Conventions and Gains from Diversity, Masahiko Aoki8. The Slow Pace of Rapid Technological Change: Gradualism and Punctuation in Technological Change, Daniel A. Levnithal9. Patnets and Welfare in an Evolutionary Model, Sidney G. WinterSection III: Strategy, Capabilities, and Knowledge Management10 Corporate Strategy, Structure, and Control Methods in the United States During the 20th Century, Alfred D. Chandler Jr.11. Incentives, Routines, and Self-Command, Steven Postrel and Richard P. Rumelt12. The Explicit Economics of Knowledge Codification and Tacitness, Robin Cowan, Paul A. David, and Dominique Foray13. Technologies, Products, and Organization in the Innovating Firm: What Adam Smith Tells Us and Joseph Schumpeter Doesn't, Keith Pavitt

Editorial Reviews

"Dosi and colleagues from the University of California, Berkeley, introduce 13 papers collected from issues of the Industrial and Corporate Change journal from 1992-2000. They offer multidisciplinary insights into theoretical and empirical aspects of business organizations." —Reference & Research Book News

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