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Redesigning the Firm.
Title:
Redesigning the Firm.
Author:
Bowman, Edward H.
ISBN:
9780198024781
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (292 pages)
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 Markets -- IV: 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.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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