Organization and Strategy in the Evolution of the Enterprise

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Organizational Learning and Institutional Embeddedness

   1. Organizational Learning and Institutional Embeddedness

      • Giovanni Dosi, Franco Malerba

      Pages 1-24

3. Learning, Corporate Organization and Strategies

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25

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   2. Learning and Schumpeterian Dynamics

      • Daniel Levinthal

      Pages 27-41

   3. Technological Regimes and Firm Behaviour

      • Franco Malerba, Luigi Orsenigo

      Pages 42-71

   4. Incentives, Routines and Self-Command

      • Steven Postrel, Richard P. Rumelt

      Pages 72-102

   5. From Individual Biases to Organizational Errors

      • Dan Lovallo

      Pages 103-123

   6. Structure, Competence and Learning in an Adaptive Model of the Firm

      • Luigi Marengo

      Pages 124-154

   7. Managing Core Competency for Corporate Renewal: Towards a Managerial Theory of Core Competencies

      • Yves Doz

      Pages 155-178

   8. Technological Innovation and Firm Inertia

      • Paul J. H. Schoemaker, M. Laurentius Marais

      Pages 179-205

   9. Capabilities for Strategic Change

      • Kenneth R. MacCrimmon

      Pages 206-220

4. Organization and Strategies in a Comparative Perspective

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 221-221

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   2. Corporate Strategy, Structure and Control Methods in the United States During the Twentieth Century

      • Alfred D. Chandler Jr

      Pages 223-245

   3. National Organizing Principles of Work and the Erstwhile Dominance of the American Multinational Corporation

      • Bruce Kogut

      Pages 246-287

   4. Two Distorting Mirrors for British Manufacturing Performance: International and Sectoral Comparisons

      • Leslie Hannah

      Pages 288-302

   5. Business Management in Japan: A Comparative Historical Study

      • Keiichiro Nakagawa

      Pages 303-323

   6. The French Case

      • Maurice Lévy-Leboyer

      Pages 324-335

   7. The Impact of the Preindustrial Heritage

      • Bernd Dornseifer, Jürgen Kocka

      Pages 336-352

   8. Size and Strategy of Italian Industrial Enterprises (1907–40): Empirical Evidence and some Conjectures

      • Renato Giannetti, Giovanni Federico, Pier Angelo Toninelli

      Pages 353-377

5. The Institutional Embeddedness of Corporate Behaviours: National Systems of Production and Innovation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 379-379

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This book examines the role of competence, organization and strategies of firms in industrial dynamics linking economic, management and historical perspectives. In the first part of the book, a series of economic and managerial contributions discuss the concepts, dimensions and effects of routines, competence, adaptation, learning, organizational structure and strategies in the evolution of industrial enterprises at the theoretical and empirical levels. In the second part of the book, a series of historical papers examine these issues in a longterm perspective for the United States, Japan and several European countries.

• economic development
• Japan
• methods
• organization
• organizations
• production

• Universitá La Sapienza, Rome, Italy

  Giovanni Dosi

• Bocconi University, Milan, Italy

  Franco Malerba

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