Organization Studies articles from September 2000

Organization Studies archives from September 2000

Editorial.(Editorial)
September 1, 2000... The development and diffusion of innovations have long been seen as crucial elements of firms' competitive competences in market economies, but it is only relatively recently that systematic variations in firms' innovation strategies and...

The Institutional Structuring of Innovation Strategies: Business Systems, Firm Types and Patterns of Technical Change in Different Market Economies [*].
September 1, 2000... Abstract Innovation patterns and technological specialization vary considerably between market economies with different institutions because they coordinate economic activities in different ways with different kinds of firms developing...

Institutional Adaptiveness, Technology Policy, and the Diffusion of New Business Models: The Case of German Biotechnology [*].
September 1, 2000... Abstract The German economy has been widely seen as failing to develop the commercial innovation competencies necessary to compete in new technologies. Starting in the mid-1990s, the German government instituted a series of new technology...

Institutions and Forms of Co-ordination in Innovation Systems.
September 1, 2000... Abstract This article shows how institutions enable and constrain forms of co-ordination for inter-organizational relations, and how these affect innovative performance. The analysis is based on a theory of learning and on a theory of...

Innovation Systems and Innovative Performance: Voice Systems.
September 1, 2000... Brigitte Unger [*] Abstract The literature on 'exit' and 'voice' countries (Anglo-American versus continental European economies and Japan) points to performance differences between these two generic systems of innovation. However,...

A Strategy for the Analysis of Idea Innovation Networks and Institutions.
September 1, 2000... J. Rogers Hollingsworth [*] Abstract The perspective of this paper is that variation in commercially successful radical product/process innovations among science-based industrial sectors can be explored by focusing on idea innovation...

The Two Faces of Management: The Janus Factor.(Review)
September 1, 2000... 1997, London and Boston: International Thompson Business Press. 237 pages. Sjostrand's intention in The Two Faces of Management is to challenge the traditional theoretical assumptions about managerial decision making and behaviour....

Organizational Learning and the Learning Organization: Developments in Theory and Practice.(Review)
September 1, 2000... 1999, London: Sage. 247 pages. The book summarizes and critically evaluates the major debates that currently dominate the ever popular topic of organizational learning. Based on a symposium held at Lancaster University in 1996, the book...

Creativity and the Management of Change.(Review)
September 1, 2000... 1999, Oxford: Blackwell. 223 pages. '"Thinking beyond the box" is the energetic claim made in the advertising material for Tudor Rickards' recent book Creativity and the Management of Change. The book 'exhorts the reader to challenge the...

The Americanisation of European Business: The Marshall Plan and the Transfer of US Management Models.(Review)
September 1, 2000... 1998, London and New York: Routledge. 235 pages. About 50 years ago, the US government set the Marshall Plan in operation. The intention was to restore the European economies -- to restore and restructure them according to the American...

The Collective Dynamics of Organizational Learning.(Review)
September 1, 2000... 1999, Lund: Lund University Press. 230 pages. In this book, a publication of her thesis, Kristina Henriksson provides the community of scholars of organizational learning with a moment of contradiction. I guess this was her intention: to...

Knowledge Assimilation: A Case Study of Learning and Co-operation between Communities of Practice.(Review)
September 1, 2000... 1999, New Social Science Monographs. 257 pages. Knowledge Assimilation - A Case Study of Learning and Co-operation between Communities of Practice presents a rather new and uncommon theoretical framework, which deals with communities of...

Organising Work Processes: Engineering Work and Managing Workers.(Review)
September 1, 2000... 1999, Assen: Van Gorcum. 163 pages. Organising Work Processes -- Engineering Work and Managing Workers deals with the systems and processes of execution and control that are relevant for the realization of both service as well as physical...

Agricultural Extension and Rural Development: Breaking Out of Traditions.(Review)
September 1, 2000... 2000, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 239 pages. Agricultural Extension and Rural Development -- Breaking Out of Traditions examines the broad theme of knowledge transfer and the conduct of research and development from a...

EGOS News and Notes.
September 1, 2000... Laudatio for Jim March, EGOS Honorary Member, July 2000 The following is an edited transcription of the sentiments expressed prior to Jim March's acceptance of EGOS Honorary Membership at the EGOS Colloquium in Helsinki, Finland in July...