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Innovation in Modular Industries

Author : Dana Alice Sheffer
Publisher : Stanford University
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovation in Modular Industries written by Dana Alice Sheffer and published by Stanford University. This book was released on 2011 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Product architectures are becoming increasingly modular, along with the industries that produce them. Instead of a single integrated firm designing and producing an entire product, clusters of firms design and produce individual components that are later integrated. While modularity has often been hailed as a catalyst for innovation, I show that modularity can hinder some kinds of innovation. Within a modular system, innovations that are limited to individual modules without altering interfaces and processes (modular innovations) thrive, while innovations that cross module boundaries and alter interfaces and processes (integral innovations) are stifled. In a study of implementations of twenty three different technologies in one hundred and twelve US buildings, I demonstrate that the odds for integral innovations to be implemented are 84% lower than for modular innovations, even after accounting for technology costs and other factors. The primary underlying mechanism is that integral innovations involve a loss of the embedded coordination that standardization provides. Thus, I investigate supply chain integration as a moderator and a substitute for the lost coordination. I compare high integration (both vertical and horizontal), medium integration (either vertical or horizontal), and low integration (neither vertical nor horizontal). I demonstrate that as integration increases, so does the likelihood of implementing integral innovations. In fact, the odds of implementation of integral innovations increase by 542% in supply chains characterized by high levels of integration. Thus, I shed light on the relationship between an innovation's alignment with existing industry structure and standards and the complex moderating effect of supply chain integration in modular industries. In addition, I develop a comprehensive analytical framework to explain innovation diffusion in the construction industry -- integrating the supply chain learning and coordination issues discussed above with high levels of demand fluctuation, competitive bidding by trade, and broken agency.

Limits to Modularity

Author : Dieter Ernst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Limits to Modularity written by Dieter Ernst and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Designing Outsourcing Relations in Knowledge Intensive Business Services

Author : Hendrik Kohleick
Publisher : Kölner Wissenschaftsverlag
ISBN 13 : 3937404503
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Designing Outsourcing Relations in Knowledge Intensive Business Services written by Hendrik Kohleick and published by Kölner Wissenschaftsverlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

California Management Review

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book California Management Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management

Author : Mark Dodgson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 019969494X
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Innovation Management written by Mark Dodgson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While innovation is widely recognised as being critical to organisational success and the well-being of societies, it requires careful management to ensure that innovation processes have the best possible impact. This volume provides a wide range of perspectives on the nature of innovation management and its influences.

Schumpeterian Perspectives on Innovation, Competition and Growth

Author : Uwe Cantner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540937773
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (49 download)

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Book Synopsis Schumpeterian Perspectives on Innovation, Competition and Growth by : Uwe Cantner

Download or read book Schumpeterian Perspectives on Innovation, Competition and Growth written by Uwe Cantner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-07-25 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent developments in economics have gone from the recognition of the importance of innovation for growth and the exploration of innovation mechanisms to the incorporation of the results of the previous research into economic models. An important lesson to be drawn from all this research is that a purely macro-based analysis of growth is not enough. The various mechanisms of innovation creation and diffusion, the importance of agent heterogeneity, of market selection processes, of the internal organization of the firm and of organizational routines, and the obsolescence and the consequent emergence of new types of capital goods are a few examples of micro-economic phenomena that contribute decisively to macro-economic development. The papers in this volume approach those issues from a Schumpeterian point of view and tackle issues like the growing importance of knowledge and human capital; increasing returns and path dependence; the role of variety in economic growth; competition and industry evolution.

Agent-Based Strategizing

Author : Duncan A. Robertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108772935
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Agent-Based Strategizing written by Duncan A. Robertson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategic management is a system of continual disequilibrium, with firms in a continual struggle for competitive advantage and relative fitness. Models that are dynamic in nature are required if we are to really understand the complex notion of sustainable competitive advantage. New tools are required to tackle challenges of how firms should compete in environments characterized by both exogeneous shocks and intense endogenous competition. Agent-based modelling of firms' strategies offers an alternative analytical approach, where individual firm or component parts of a firm are modelled, each with their own strategy. Where traditional models can assume homogeneity of actors, agent-based models simulate each firm individually. This allows experimentation of strategic moves, which is particularly important where reactions to strategic moves are non-trivial. This Element introduces agent-based models and their use within management, reviews the influential NK suite of models, and offers an agenda for the development of agent-based models in strategic management.

Project-Based Knowledge in Organizing Open Innovation

Author : Sara Bonesso
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1447165098
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Project-Based Knowledge in Organizing Open Innovation written by Sara Bonesso and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enriching understanding of the current theoretical debate on project-based learning and R&D sourcing, ‘Project-based Knowledge in Organizing Open Innovation’ draws on innovation literature and knowledge-based perspectives to solve open problems in the relationship between knowledge development at project level and how firms organize product innovation combining in-house R&D activities with inbound open innovation. Through field research in different industrial settings (pharmaceutical, automotive and machine tools) and with complementary methodological approaches, this book provides empirical evidence on how project knowledge features affect sourcing decisions at firm level. Due to the emerging interest in the management literature on project-based organizations and on the relevance of project forms of organizing in a knowledge-based economy, this volume will appeal to scholars and students in business and management, in particular those in innovation management, organization theory and strategic management. Addressing the still open issue of how the firm level should be complemented by studies at the project level of analysis, this book provides theoretical and empirical arguments on the advantages of a more fine-grained level of analysis to understand how firms organize their innovation processes across boundaries.

Manufacturing Possibilities

Author : Gary Herrigel
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191614068
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Manufacturing Possibilities written by Gary Herrigel and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manufacturing Possibilities examines adjustment dynamics in the steel, automobile and machinery industries in Germany, the U.S., and Japan since World War II. As national industrial actors in each sector try to compete in global markets, the book argues that they recompose firm and industry boundaries, stakeholder identities and interests, and governance mechanisms at all levels of their political economies. Micro level study of industrial transformation in this way provides a significant window on macro level processes of political economic change in the three societies. Theoretically, the book marks a departure from both neoliberal economic and historical institutionalist perspectives on change in advanced political economies. It characterizes industrial change as a creative, bottom-up process driven by reflective social actors. This alternative view consists of two distinctive claims. The first is that action is social, reflective, and ultimately creative. When their interactive habits are disrupted, industrial actors seek to repair their relations by reconceiving them. Such imaginative interaction redefines interest and causes unforeseen possibilities for action to emerge, enabling actors to trump existing rules and constraints. Second, industrial change driven by creative action is recompositional. In the social process of reflection, actors rearrange, modify, reconceive, and reposition inherited organizational forms and governance mechanisms as they experiment with solutions to the challenges that they face. Continuity in relations is interwoven with continuous reform and change. Most remarkably, creativity in the recomposition process makes the introduction of entirely new practices and relations possible. Ultimately, the message of Manufacturing Possibilities is that social study of change in advanced political economies should devote itself to the discovery of possibility. Preoccupation with constraint and failure to appreciate the capaciousness of reflective social action has led much of contemporary debate to misrecognize the dynamics of change. As a result, discussion of the range of adjustment possibilities in advanced political economies has been unnecessarily limited.

Product Variety in Automotive Industry

Author : Marco Guerzoni
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319019074
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (19 download)

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Book Synopsis Product Variety in Automotive Industry by : Marco Guerzoni

Download or read book Product Variety in Automotive Industry written by Marco Guerzoni and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the history of product variety in the US automotive industry from the black Ford-T to hot-rodders and easy-riders up to latest trends. It focuses on the dual structure of automotive industry in the United States: on one hand, relatively few and large companies producing cars that apparently achieve a degree of market power through product differentiation, and on the other hand, a relatively small niche market with distinct and smaller producers offering specialty equipment to enhance the performance, appearance, and handling of vehicles. The book presents novel results from an in-depth study with implications for both economic theory and the management of product variety.

Handbook of Service Science

Author : Paul P. Maglio
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441916288
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Service Science written by Paul P. Maglio and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the service sector expands into the global economy, a new science of service is emerging, one that is dedicated to encouraging service innovation by applying scientific understanding, engineering discipline, and management practice to designing, improving, and scaling service systems. Handbook of Service Science takes the first major steps to clarifying the definition, role, and future of this nascent field. Incorporating work by scholars from across the spectrum of service research, the volume presents multidisciplinary perspectives on the nature and theory of service, on current research and practice in design, operations, delivery, and innovation of service, and on future opportunities and potential of service research. Handbook of Service Science provides a comprehensive reference suitable for a wide-reaching audience including researchers, practitioners, managers, and students who aspire to learn about or to create a deeper scientific foundation for service design and engineering, service experience and marketing, and service management and innovation.

Encyclopedia of Technology and Innovation Management

Author : V. K. Narayanan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405160497
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Technology and Innovation Management written by V. K. Narayanan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get complete, up-to-date and authoritative coverage of technology and innovation. A broadly encompassing encyclopedia on the emerging topic of technology innovation and management (TIM), this volume covers a wide array of issues. TIM is a relatively new field and is highly interdisciplinary, incorporating strategy and entrepreneurship, economics, marketing, organizational behavior, organization theory, physical and life sciences, and even law. All of these disciplines are represented in this volume, and their intersections are made clear. Entries are contributed by scholars from around the world who are leading experts in their respective topics. This volume is appropriate for scholars who are new to this particular field, as well as industry practitioners interested in understanding the state of knowledge in these specific areas. Entries may also serve as useful instructional materials, given their span of coverage as well as their currency. Encyclopedia of Technology and Innovation Management has now been adapted and included as the 13th volume of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Management. VK Narayanan is Stubbs Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship and Associate Dean of Research at Drexel University, Philadelphia, U.S.A. Gina O'Connor is Associate Professor of Marketing in the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, U.S.A.

Designing Organizations

Author : Richard M. Burton
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0387777768
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book Designing Organizations written by Richard M. Burton and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-06-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a benchmark publication in the field of organization design (OD). Featured in the book are the more practical elements of implementing OD in organizations. The recent development in organization design has been sporadic; hence, this book will be an important step in creating more thoughtful research and stronger empirical analyses that take advantage of advances in estimation methods allowing for more complex causal modeling and stimulation technologies.

Managing in the Modular Age

Author : Raghu Garud
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405141948
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Managing in the Modular Age written by Raghu Garud and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-09 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together seminal articles by leading scholars of technological and organizational systems, exploring the impact of 'modularity'. Modularity refers to an ability to take apart and put together differenct products and networks, or to 'mix and match' components in order to meet different user specifications. This is of key importance today where new systems such as the World Wide Web and many areas of the computer industry depend on it. The volume pulls together and defines an exciting new area of inquiry: into how our 'modular age' is reshaping the business eco-system. Includes contributions from leading scholars of technology and organization Modularity refers to an ability to take apart and put together different products and systems, or to 'mix and match' components in order to meet different user specifications. Consolidates and defines an area of inquiry that is becoming increasingly important with the development of web-based and 'network' industries. Sensitizes readers to the complexity of issues surrounding new modular products and systems created by e-business Encourages readers to make connections among different levels and disciplines. Initiates a debate around issues of modularity. Includes a commentary co-authored by the late Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon to whom the book is dedicated.

The Oxford Handbook of Open Innovation

Author : Henry Chesbrough
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192899813
Total Pages : 1009 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Open Innovation written by Henry Chesbrough and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 1009 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Handbook seeks to be the definitive reference for the large and growing field of Open Innovation. A comprehensive collection of short and authoritative chapters, the volume summarizes the most vital research published in Open Innovation. It is an essential reference for seasoned scholars, a welcome introduction for junior scholars, and a kick-start package for undergraduate and MBA students. Four editors, 75 reviewers, and 136 contributors collaboratively developed 57 chapter handbook chapters. These present the current state of the art featuring academic theory and managerial practice as well as the outlook for how open innovation should be further developed. The empirical, conceptual, and practical insights of the handbook highlight the importance of strengthening practice-inspired research and purposeful knowledge exchanges between individuals, organizations, and ecosystems.

Megaregionalism 2.0: Trade And Innovation Within Global Networks

Author : Dieter Ernst
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813229845
Total Pages : 531 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Megaregionalism 2.0: Trade And Innovation Within Global Networks written by Dieter Ernst and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides new insights for policy debates on how to strengthen the gains from trade for innovation through an inclusive trading environment that facilitates access to knowledge for all. Rising economic nationalism, especially in the United States, creates new challenges to an enlightened globalization agenda.The US government has withdrawn from the Transpacific Partnership agreement (TPP) that once was considered to be the gold standard of megaregionalism, suggesting the need to highlight once again the critical role that international trade and investment play in fostering sustainable growth and prosperity. Fostering innovation and facilitating the links between trade and innovation are becoming increasingly important for developed and developing economies alike. But equally important are economic policies to ensure that gains and losses from trade for innovation are shared by all.This book is a must read for trade economists, innovation economists, trade negotiators, trade lawyers, and academicians interested in current transformations in the global economy and their impact on innovation and economic growth.

Management Strategies for Sustainability, New Knowledge Innovation, and Personalized Products and Services

Author : Pejic-Bach, Mirjana
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799877957
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Management Strategies for Sustainability, New Knowledge Innovation, and Personalized Products and Services written by Pejic-Bach, Mirjana and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2022-01-14 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today’s changing business environment, managers and employees need essential capabilities such as innovativeness to successfully reach organizational goals. In this digitalized era, it is obvious that undigitized firms and organizations will not survive changing demands unless they can quickly adapt and form new business strategies. The upcoming era necessitates a digital transformation in all institutions from government to the non-profit sector. In such a change-oriented and complex business era, both entrepreneurs and leaders must keep up with the latest developments around them. Management Strategies for Sustainability, New Knowledge Innovation, and Personalized Products and Services discusses the emerging topics of digital transformation, new knowledge innovation, sustainability, and personalized products and services and provides a theoretical infrastructure to share the latest empirical research findings within management, knowledge creation, sustainability practices, artificial intelligence, and digital business functions and strategies. Covering a wide range of topics such as Industry 4.0 and user satisfaction, it is ideal for industry professionals, practitioners, consultants, educators, scholars, researchers, academicians, and students.