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Restructuring Strategy
New Networks and Industry Challenges
Karen O. Cool (Edited by), KO Cool (Author), James E. Henderson (Edited by), Rene Abate (Edited by)
9781405126014, Wiley
Hardback, published 17 December 2004
320 pages
25.4 x 17.8 x 2.7 cm, 0.699 kg
“The book is replete with excellent analysis of firm planning decisions. It draws insightful overarching conclusions.” "The book is replete with excellent analysis of firm planning decisions. It draws insightful overarching conlusions."
Industrial Relations
Recensions
New industries are emerging; others are disrupted; old barriers are crumbling, while new ones are rising. This book seeks to better understand the challenges facing industries, networks, businesses and management during periods of industry structuring and restructuring. Comprising a series of contributions from experts in the field, the book addresses key questions about the opportunities and threats posed by these times of turmoil, including: How do existing industries sustain their competitiveness in such difficult times? How do networks stave off threats from new technologies? How do emerging and incumbent companies survive when growth is not an option? And how should companies be governed during periods of industry structuring and restructuring? In answering these questions, the contributors provide an overview of the strategies that industries, networks, businesses and managers are currently deploying in order to adapt to chaotic conditions and to enhance business profitability. Their responses make a distinctive contribution to scholarly thought and management practice.
List of Contributors vii About the Editors x 1 Restructuring Strategy 1 Part I Industry and Network Competitiveness 15 2 Maintaining Collective Assets, the Tragedy of the Commons, and Supply Chain Performance: The Case of the Champagne Industry 17 3 Organizing around Strategic Relationships: Networks of Suppliers as Knowledge Generators in the Italian Motorcycle Industry 44 4 Assessing the Knowledge Landscape across Firms in Alliance Networks and its Impact on Organizational Innovation Performance 68 5 Generative Interactions: The New Source of Competitive Advantage 86 Part II Successful Business Strategies during Periods of Industry Structuring and Restructuring 111 6 Sustaining Superior Performance through a Bubble: Inter-firm Differences in the e-Consulting Industry 113 7 Delaying Market Entry: How Long Is Too Long? 139 8 Robust Capabilities? An Empirical Study of Incumbent-Entrant Product Development Capabilities after Radical Technological Change 153 9 The Form of Departure: The Consequences of Presumptive Adaptation of Franchising Knowledge for Local Network Growth 175 Part III Superior Management and Governance Practices 205 10 A Bayesian Application of the Resource-based View: Narrowing the Gap between Theory and Practice 207 11 How Much Do Middle Managers Matter, Really? An Empirical Study on their Impact on Sustained Superior Performance 236 12 Impacts of Justification Behavior: The Forgotten Costs of Corporate Governance? 251 13 A New Approach to Improving Board Vigilance: Shift the Focus to Board Process 268 Index 289
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Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
