Knowledge and Competitive Advantage - The Coevolution of Firms, Technology, and National Institutions

Informationen zum Autor Johann Peter Murmann is Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He is on the editorial board of the Journal of International Business Studies and is the editor of Evolutionary Theories in the Social Sciences. Klappentext A comparison of the development of the synthetic dye industry in Europe and the US. Zusammenfassung A comparison of the development of the synthetic dye industry in Great Britain! Germany! and the US. This constitutes an important chapter in business! economic! and technological history because synthetic dyes - invented in 1857 - represent the first time that a scientific discovery quickly gave rise to a new industry. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Country-level performance differences and their institutional foundations; 3. Three times two case studies of individual firms; 4. The coevolution of national industries and institutions; 5. Toward an institutional theory of competitive advantage; Appendices; Bibliography.

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• Authors: Johann Peter Murmann
• Assisted by: Louis Galambos (Editor), Geoffrey Jones (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2004
• EAN: 9780521813297
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81329-7
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 235 mm x 24 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise; Cambridge Studies in the Emerg; Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enter; Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise; Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enter
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics