UID:
almafu_9959241162902883
Format:
1 online resource (419 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-281-02656-5
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9786611026561
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1-84950-080-0
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0-08-054533-5
Series Statement:
Advances in strategic management, v. 18
Content:
A conspicuous feature of the modern economy is the multitude of multiunit systems that operate in several markets - an organizational form that arguably rivals the M-form as the 20th century's most successful. Research traditions studying multiunit systems include the multimarket perspective, which has used commitment and mutual forbearance theory, and the multiunit perspective, which has used learning and knowledge transfer theory. These perspectives are interdisciplinary, but to date there has been little direct interaction among them. This text aims to bring these areas together, discussing such things as: examining how variation in firm capabilities affects the co-ordination of branches and thus their forbearance or transfer of routines; bridging theories of market conduct and internal behaviour to explore how knowledge about markets and competitor behaviour is transferred among organizational units; making a theory of contingent multiunit or single-unit competitive advantage that can account for the coexistence of these organizational forms in many markets; and examining the effects of firm contacts in alliances or technological fields on their competitive behaviours.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Machine generated contents note: PART ONE: ENTRY -- ETHNIC LINKS, LOCATION CHOICE AND -- PERFORMANCE: A TEST OF THE RURAL -- MOTEL INDUSTRY -- Arturs Kalnins and Wilbur Chung 31 -- BEYOND MULTIMARKET CONTACT TO -- MUTUAL FORBEARANCE: PURSUIT OF -- MULTIMARKET STRATEGY -- Helaine J. Korn and Terence T. Rock 53 -- TRADEOFFS IN THE ORGANIZATION OF -- PRODUCTION: MULTIUNIT FIRMS, GEOGRAPHIC -- DISPERSION AND ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING -- Pino G. Audia, Olav Sorenson and Jerald Hage 75 -- PART TWO: PRODUCTION AND INNOVATION BEHAVIOR -- INTERORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING AND -- THE DYNAMICS OF CHAIN RELATIONSHIPS -- Paul Ingram and Joel A. C. Baum 109 -- DYNAMICS OF KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER -- AMONG MULTIMARKET COMPETITORS -- Christopher M. Cassidy and David Loree 141 -- DESIGNING MULTIMARKET-CONTACT -- HYPOTHESIS TESTS: PATENT CITATIONS -- AND MULTIMARKET CONTACT IN THE -- PRODUCT AND INNOVATION MARKETS OF -- THE CHEMICALS INDUSTRY -- John T. Scott -- PART THREE: MARKET BEHAVIOR -- COLLUSION IN HORIZONTALLY CONNECTED -- MARKETS: MULTIMARKET PRODUCERS AS -- CONDUITS FOR LEARNING -- Owen R. Phillips and Charles F. Mason -- GETTING TO MULTIMARKET COMPETITION: -- HOW MULTIMARKET CONTACT AFFECTS -- FIRMS' MARKET ENTRY DECISIONS -- John Stephan and Warren Boeker -- STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT IN THE NEW -- ECONOMY: MODERN INFORMATION -- TECHNOLOGIES AND MULTICHANNEL -- CONTACT STRATEGIES -- Marc van Wegberg and Arjen van Witteloostuijn -- MARKETS AND MULTIUNIT FIRMS FROM AN -- AMERICAN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE -- Sukkoo Kim -- PART FOUR: OUTCOMES -- RACING FOR MARKET SHARE: HYPERCOMPETITION -- AND THE PERFORMANCE OF MULTIUNIT-MULTIMARKET -- FIRMS -- Stan X. Li and You-Ta Chuang -- MULTIMARKET CONTACT: MEANING AND -- MEASUJREMENT AT MULTTIPLE LEVELS OF -- ANALYSIS -- Javier Gimeno and Eui Jeong.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-7623-0721-8
Language:
English
