Resources, Technology and Strategy brings together contributors from Europe, North America and Asia to consider the strategic relationship between technology and other resources, such as production capabilities, marketing prowess, finance and organisational culture.Throughout the book, these experts take a critical approach to RBP (Resource-Based Perspective) in order to assess both its strengths and weaknesses. Case studies also highlight the importance of both having and not having strong technological capabilities in settings as diverse as the US semiconductor industry, small family manufacturing firms in Hong Kong and state-owned enterprises in China.
Author(s): Nicolai Foss
Edition: 1
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 288
Preliminaries......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
The contributors......Page 10
1 Introduction: resources, technology and strategy......Page 12
2 Equilibrium vs. evolution in the resource-based perspective......Page 22
3 Knowledge and capabilities: a new view of the firm......Page 42
4 Synthesising resource-based, evolutionary and neoclassical thought......Page 64
5 A processual account of innovative capabilities......Page 90
6 Product and process architectures in the management of knowledge resources......Page 110
7 Building innovative assets and dynamic coherence in multi-technology companies......Page 132
8 Dynamic complementarities and technology acquisition......Page 160
9 Economic organisation and the accumulation of rent-yielding assets......Page 182
10 Capabilities and vertical disintegration in process technology......Page 204
11 Technological capabilities and the strategies of small manufacturing firms......Page 230
12 Technological capabilities and foreign direct investment in China......Page 254
Index......Page 272
