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Record Nr.

UNINA9910667825303321

Autore

Clark Peter A

Titolo

Organisations in action : competition between contexts / / Peter Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2000

ISBN

0-203-01687-4

0-203-26497-5

0-415-18231-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (365 p.)

Disciplina

338.7

Soggetti

Industrial organization (Economic theory)

Corporations

Competition

Knowledge management

Organizational behavior

Strategic planning

International business enterprises

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pt. I. New political economy. 1. Two themes, three disciplines and five perspectives. 2. From modernism to neo-modern political economy. 3. Organisation theory: design rules. 4. Structuration, domain theory and the realist turn. 5. Organisation economics and economic sociology -- Pt. II. Competition between contexts. 6. Long-term political economy: hegemony, dependence and markets. 7. National innovation-design systems. 8. Nations: structural and institutional variations. 9. American exceptionalism. 10. Sectoral clusters and competition between contexts -- Pt. III. Firms: capabilities and transformative potential. 11. Resource-based strategic analysis. 12. Contingent recurrent action patterns and repertoires. 13. Knowledges: contested, distributed and explacit. 14. Morphogenesis/stasis -- Pt. IV. Zones of manoeuvre. 15. Organisational management and zones of manoeuvre.

Sommario/riassunto

This original and ambitious work provides a fascinating examination of organizations from both a post-modern and new organizational



economics perspective. Combining strategy, international business and organisational theory, it represents a ground-breaking critique of prevailing mainstream modernist theories of organization. Distinctive features include:* a comprehensive analysis of social and organizational theory* discussion and exploration of knowledge capitalism * a critique of core competencies and resource based approaches to strategy, human resource management and orga