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The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Capabilities

Giovanni Dosi, Richard R. Nelson, and Sidney Winter

Abstract

In this book, the editors and a team of distinguished international contributors analyse the nature of organizational capabilities, studying how organizations do things, use their knowledge base, and diffuse that knowledge in competitive environment. Offering both theoretical analysis and detailed evidence from a variety of individual firms and sectors, this book presents insights into the relationship between organizational structures and organizational capabilities, the patterns of accumulation of technical knowledge, and the management of competence‐building in changing markets.

Keywords: competence‐building, competences, economic theory, firm theory, management, organizational capabilities, organizational knowledge, organizational structure, organizations, technical knowledge

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2001 Print ISBN-13: 9780199248544
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003 DOI:10.1093/0199248540.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Giovanni Dosi, editor
Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
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Richard R. Nelson, editor
School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, USA
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Sidney Winter, editor
Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Preface

List of Figures

List of Tables

List of Contributors

Introduction: The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Capabilities

Giovanni Dosi, Richard R. Nelson, and Sidney G. Winter

Part I

1 Talking About Routines in the Field: The Emergence of Organizational Capabilities in a New Cellular Phone Network Company

Alessandro Narduzzo, Elena Rocco, and Massimo Warglien

2 Repositories of Knowledge in Franchise Organizations: Individual, Structural, and Technological

Linda Argote and Eric Darr

3 Appropriability and the Challenge of Scope: Banc One Routinizes Replication

Gabriel Szulanski

4 Limited Inquiry and Intelligent Adaptation in Semiconductor Manufacturing

M. Thérèse Flaherty

Part II

5 In Search of Dynamic Capabilities: The Origins of R&D Competence in Biopharmaceuticals

Gary P. Pisano

6 Measuring Competence? Exploring Firm Effects in Drug Discovery

Rebecca Henderson and Iain Cockburn

7 Managing the Development and Transfer of Process Technologies in the Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry

Melissa M. Appleyard, Nile W. Hatch, and David C. Mowery

Part III

8 The ‘Abominable Ohno Production System’. Competences, Monitoring, and Routines in Japanese Production Systems*

Benjamin Coriat

9 Evolution of Manufacturing Systems and Ex Post Dynamic Capabilities: A Case of Toyota's Final Assembly Operations

Takahiro Fujimoto

10 Transfer and Replication of Organizational Capabilities: Japanese Transplant Organizations in the United States

Richard Florida and Martin Kenney

Part IV

11 How Technological Competencies Help Define the Core (Not the Boundaries) of the Firm

Pari Patel and Keith Pavitt

12 Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management

David J. Teece, Gary Pisano, and Amy Shuen

13 Organizational Capabilities in Complex Worlds

Daniel A. Levinthal

End Matter

Index