The business of systems integration
By: edited by Andrea Prencipe, Andrew Davies, and Mike Hobday.
Contributors: Prencipe, Andrea.; Davies, Andrew, 1960-; Hobday, Michael.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Business enterprises -- Computer networks -- Management; Information technology -- Management; Management information systems
Description: This title refers to a model of industrial organization whereby firms and groups of firms combine different types of knowledge, skills, and activities, as well as hardware, software, and human resources to produce new products for the marketplace. The transition towards this model has fundamental implications for the capabilities of firms.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Inventing systems integration / Harvey M. Sapolsky; title: Systems integration and the social solution of technical problems in complex systems / Stephen B. Johnson; title: Integrating electrical power systems : from individual to organizational capabilities / Fredrik Tell; title: Specialization and systems integration : where manufacture and services still meet / Keith Pavitt; title: The economics of systems integration : towards an evolutionary interpretation / Giovanni Dosi ... [et al.]; title: Corporate strategy and systems integrations capabilities : managing networks in complex systems industries / Andrea Prencipe; title: The role of technical standards in coordinating the division of labour in complex system industries / W. Edward Steinmueller; title: The cognitive basis of systems integration : redundancy of context-generating knowledge / Massimo Paoli; title: Towards a dynamics of modularity : a cyclical model of technical advance / Henry Chesbrough; title: The geography of systems integration / Michael H. Best; title: Modularity and outsourcing : the nature of co-evolution of product architecture and organization architecture in the global automotive industry / Mari Sako; title: Modularization in the car industry : interlinked multiple hierarchies of product, production, and supplier systems / Akira Takeishi and Takahiro Fujimoto; title: Systems integration in the US defence industry : who does it and why is it important? / Eugene Gholz; title: Changing boundaries of innovation systems : linking market demand and use / Maureen McKelvey; title: Integrated solutions : the changing business of systems integration / Andrew Davies.