Innovating Organization and Management
New Sources of Competitive Advantage

Explains and illustrates through case studies the four key sources of competitive advantage and financial success.

Nicolai J. Foss (Author), Torben Pedersen (Author), Jacob Pyndt (Author), Majken Schultz (Author)

9781107648227, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 12 January 2012

260 pages, 35 b/w illus. 14 tables
22.8 x 15.4 x 1.3 cm, 0.43 kg

'This book provides great insights in[to] the actual leadership and management processes of key Danish companies.' Yves Doz, Solvay Chair of Technological Innovation, INSEAD

The search for competitive advantage serves as the basis for organizational strategy. This book argues that there are four key sources of competitive advantage and financial success that have not been given the attention they deserve. Firstly, that organizational design and management processes may be strategic resources in their own right. Secondly, that organizational design and management processes can be deployed to create new strategic resources. Thirdly, that managers have begun to think of organizational design and management processes in a proactive way rather than seeing them more passively as necessary facilitators of success. Fourthly, that this new way of looking at organization and management requires a search for new ways of structuring organizational design and managerial processes. These points are driven home through case studies of the Danish firms LEGO Group, Vestas Wind Systems, Coloplast, Chr. Hansen, IC Companys and NKT Flexibles.

List of figures
List of tables
List of boxes
1. New sources of competitive advantage
2. Causes of firm success: from resources to organization and management
3. LEGO: redefining the boundaries
4. Vestas: the will to win(d)
5. Coloplast: innovating innovation
6. Chr. Hansen: collaborative forms under private equity ownership
7. IC Companys: creative genius and commercial attitudes
8. NKT Flexibles: global sourcing of R and D innovation
9. Concluding reflections: innovating organization and management to stay competitive
Index.

Subject Areas: Organizational theory & behaviour [KJU], Management decision making [KJMD], Entrepreneurship [KJH], Business strategy [KJC], Business & management [KJ]