The flexible firm
Subtitle: capability management in network organizations
By: edited by Julian Birkinshaw and Peter Hagström.
Contributors: Birkinshaw, Julian M.; Hagström, Peter.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Business networks.; Strategic alliances (Business); Organizational change.; Organizational effectiveness.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-226) and index.
Table of contents: value: Notes on the contributors; value: List of figures; value: List of tables; value: Introduction / Julian Birkinshaw and Peter Hagström; value: 1. Network relationships inside and outside the firm, and the development of capabilities / Julian Birkinshaw; value: Pt. I. Managing relationships in the external network.  2. Task partitioning, communication activities, and the performance of supplier relations in product development / Maurizio Sobrero and Omar Toulan ; 3. Global account management: linking external demands with internal abilities / Julian Birkinshaw, Omar Toulan, and David Arnold; value: Pt. II. Innovation in the external network. 4. The experience-curve of capability management / Henrik Bresman ; 5. Strategy in the periphery: the role of external linkages in strategy creation / Patrick Regnér ; 6. Innovation in the networked firm: the need to develop new types of interface competence / Stefan Jonsson ; 7. Communities of practice in a high-technology firm / Robin Teigland; value: Pt. III. Managing the internal network. 8. Building an internal market system: insights from five R. & D. organizations / Julian Birkinshaw and Carl F. Fey ; 9. Knowledge management in the multinational enterprise / Niklas Arvidsson ; 10. New wine in old bottles: information technology evolution in firm strategy and structure / Peter Hagström ; 11. Relaxing the boundaries of the firm / Peter Hagström; value: References; value: Index.