The SMS Blackwell Handbook of Organizational

This Handbook looks at how the resources and capabilities of organizations emerge and develop over time. Written by leading figures in the field. Presents original new theory. Features ground-breaking empirical studies. Draws on a broad range of empirical methods - case studies, statistical analysis, and simulations. Offers thought-provoking commentary on streams of research. Provides a basis for future research and practice.

Constance E. Helfat is Professor of Strategy and Technology at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. Her work has been published widely in journals such as Strategic Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science and the Journal of Industrial Economics. She has also published a book entitled Investment Choices in Industry (1988). She serves on the editorial boards of Strategic Management Journal, Management Science Organization Science and Strategic Organization.

List of Contributors

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Acknowledgements

ix

1 Stylized Facts Regarding the Evolution of Organizational Resources and Capabilities

1

(14)

Constance E. Helfat

Part I Emergence of Resources and Capabilities

2 Dominance by Birthright: Entry of Prior Radio Producers and Competitive Ramifications in the US Television Receiver Industry

15

(28)

Steven Kleppen and Kenneth L. Simons

3 The Nature, Sources, and Consequences of Firm Differences in the Early History of the Semiconductor Industry

43

(33)

Daniel Holbrook, Wesley M. Cohen, David A. Hounshell, and Steven Kleppen

4 Superstores and the Evolution of Firm Capabilities in American Bookselling

76

(21)

Daniel M.G. Raff

5 Commentary on Chapters by Klepper and Simons, by Holbrook et al., and by Raff.

97

(3)

Keith Pavitt

6 Imprinting and the Evolution of Firm Capabilities

100

(4)

Daniel A. Levinthal

7 Imprinting or Emergence, Structure or Rules, or Why Dirty Dancing Is Always Better When You Are More Than Two

104

(6)

Bruce Kogut

8 Strategic Capabilities in Emerging Fields: Navigating Ambiguity, Leveraging Social Capital, and Creating Identity in Silicon Alley

110

(11)

Theresa K. Lant

Part II Incremental Development and Change

9 Why Do Firms Tend to Become Different?

121

(13)

Birger Wernerfelt

10 Firm Capabilities and Competition and Industrial Policies in a "History Friendly" Model of the Evolution of the Computer Industry

134

(33)

Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Lumi Orsenigo, and Sidney G. Winter

11 Problem-solving Behaviors, Organizational Forms, and the Complexity of Tasks

167

(26)

Giovanni Dosi, Mike Hobday, and Luigi Marengo

12 Product Sequencing: Co-evolution of Knowledge, Capabilities, and Products

193

(25)

Constance E. Helfat and Ruth S. Raubitschek

13 Path-dependent and Path-breaking Change: Reconfiguring Business Resources Following Acquisitions in the US Medical Sector, 1978-1995

218

(35)

Samma Karim and Will Mitchell

14 Commentary on Karim-Mitchell and Helfat-Raubitschek Chapters

253

(4)

James Brian Quinn

15 The Relational Organization: From Relational Rents to Alliance Capability

257

(7)

Harbin Singh

16 Innovative Routines in Large Firms: What the Evidence Suggests

264

(5)

Keith Pavitt

17 The Evolutionary Roots of Resource-based Theory

269

(6)

Jay B. Barney

Part III Dealing with Radical Change

18 The Satisficing Principle in Capability Learning

275

(21)

Sidney G. Winter

19 Untangling the Origins of Competitive Advantage

296

(30)

Iain M. Cockburn, Rebecca M. Henderson, and Scott Stern

20 Strategy and Circumstance: The Response of American Firms to Japanese Competition in Semiconductors, 1980-1995

326

(15)

Richard N. Langlois and W. Edward Steinmueller

21 Dynamic Capabilities: What Are They?

341

(23)

Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Jeffrey A. Martin

22 Leadership, Capabilities, and Technological Change: The Transformation of NCR in the Electronic Era

364

(29)

Richard S. Rosenbloom

23 Capabilities, Cognition, and Inertia: Evidence from Digital Imaging

393

(20)

Mary Tripsas and Giovanni Gavetti

24 Leadership and Cognition: Or, What Could Those Folks at the Top Have Been Thinking? Commentary on Chapters by Rosenbloom and Tripsas and Gavetti

413

(2)

Steven W. Usselman

25 Toward Developing an Organizational Capability of Learning from Mistakes

415

(7)

Sydney Finkelstein

26 Resources, Capabilities, Core Competencies, Invisible Assets, and Knowledge Assets: Label Proliferation and Theory Development in the Field of Strategic Management

422

(5)

Jay B. Barney

Index

427

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