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Zusatztext This book provides Wharton's unique perspective on contemporary business research and management thinking. Informationen zum Autor Edward Bowman is Director of the Jones Centre for Management Policy at Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania. Bruce Kogut is Associate Professor of Management at the same institution. Klappentext Redesigning the Firm illuminates many of the challenges that confront the executive, approaching the issue from a wide variety of perspectives. The book considers, for instance, whether the firm's stockholders, directors, and managers should reevaluate how they distribute power and share information, and it explores why external board members often fail to exercise a strong voice in governance. It looks at the changing boundary of the firm, as partnerships and alliances have become more important, examining this new development in three types of market: emerging markets such as Eastern Europe, markets where economies of scale provide a critical advantage, and dynamic markets where speed is essential. It examines the use of suppliers in Japanese, American, and European firms, and finds the first to be most efficient. Zusammenfassung The best way to organize a firm is discussed by the faculty at the Wharton School. Sections of the book cover various ways firms can compete in the changing world market owing to innovations in the US and new organizing principles developed by Japan. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Acknowledgements Participants Table of Contents 1: Edward Bowman and Bruce Kogut: Introduction: redesigning the Firm I. Boundries, Networks and Corporate Control 2: Edward Bowman and Michale Useem: The Anomolies of Corporate Governance 3: Elizabeth E. bailey and Weijian Shan: Sustainable Competitive Advantage Through Alliance 4: Toshihiro Nishiguchi and Erin Anderson: Supplier and Buyer Networks II. Speed, Variety and Flexibility 5: Deborah Dougherty and Morris A. Cohen: Product Innovation in Mature Firms 6: Marshall Fisher, Anjani Jain and John Paul MacDuffie: Strategies for Product Variety: Lessons from the Auto Industry 7: Christopher D. Ittner and Bruce Kogut: How Control Systems can Support Organizational Flexibility III. Form, Space and Time 8: Franklin Allen and Peter D. Sherer: The Design and Redisign of the Organizational Form 9: John Farley with Steve Kobrin: Organizing the Global Multinational Firm 10: George S. Day and John Kimberly: How Firms Adapt to Evolving Markets IV. Summary 11: Bruce Kogut and Ned Bowman: Modularity and Permeability as Principles of Design ...
