[Book] Giant Steps in Management: Innovations That Change the Way You Work Julian Birkinshaw, Michael MoI, Financial Times/ Prentice Hall £22.99 ** I wanted to dislike this book. It claims it will keep you on the "right side of innovation". Eeeww. But inside, it's not so alarming...
The Innovation Value Chain; Morton T. Hansen and Julian Birkinshaw; Harvard Business Review, June 2007; pp. 121-130. Professors Hansen Insead and Birkinshaw London Business School assert that a company's ability to innovate is only as great as the strength of the weakest link in its "innovation value chain," and that...
Acs, Z. J. and D. B. Audretsch (1990), 'The determinants of small-firm growth in United-States manufacturing'. Applied Economics 22, 143-153. Acs, Z. J. and D. B. Audretsch (2003), 'Innovation and technological change'. In: Z. J. Acs and D. B. Audretsch (eds.): Handbook...
The defnition of entrepreneurship has evolved from a trait or supply side approach--i.e., a focus on entrepreneurs and their traits--to a context or demand side approach--i.e., a focus on the influence of firms and markets on how, where, and why new enterprises are founded (Thornton, 1999),...
The entrepreneurship field is still in search of its own identity. At the same time, entrepreneurship is not only capturing the time and passion of an increasing number of scholars but also the public resources that national and international entities devote to fostering entrepreneurship as an...
Abstract We propose a model that links seven different conceptions of entrepreneurship and maps them in relation to eight associated disciplines and theories, specifying their corresponding units and levels of analysis and stage in the entrepreneurial process. Entrepreneurship scholars are attempting to...
Entrepreneurship as a fold of study is relatively young (Cooper, 2003). Although the concept of entrepreneurship can be traced to the work of Cantillon (1755), it has emerged as a fast-growing line of inquiry during the last 30 years. Evidence of this interest in entrepreneurship is...
SUMANTRA GHOSHAL ON MANAGEMENT A Force For Good Edited By Julian Birkinshaw and Gita Piramal FT Prentice Hall Pp: 378 Price: Rs 550 Sumantra Ghoshal wasn't your typical management 'guru'. He didn'tbelieve in hype, clever buzzwords or becoming a management starhimself. (The fact that he did end up becoming one...
U.S. Borders Book Shop1800 L Street, N.W.Washington, D.C. 20036(202) 466-4999 1. Execution, Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan Crown 2. Good to Great, Jim Collins (Harper-Collins) 3. Now, Discover Your Strengths, Marcus Buckingham The Free Press 4. Who Moved My...
Julian Birkinshaw: Entrepreneurship in the Global Firm 2000, London: Sage. 154 pages. Much of the current literature on globalization and competition focuses on the external environment in which firms operate. This book looks within international firms at the dynamics that affect their growth and position. Are...
Julian Birkinshaw and Peter Hagstrom, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. 248 pp. $65.00. The overarching thesis of The Flexible Firm is that valuable capabilities are built at multiple levels inside the firm and in firms' external network of relationships. Some capabilities are developed...
Sep 6, 2001 BRW ABIX via COMTEX -- Industry in Australia has been exposed to global forces for decades. There is a dominance of oligopolies in the Australian industry and this is seen to inhibit the adaptation of industry to globalisation. An associate...
Aug 9, 2001 The Australian Financial Review ABIX via COMTEX -- Concerns are rising in Australia about domestic companies being sold to offshore buyers. The BHP Billiton merger in mid-2001 has brought the concerns to the fore. The issue, however, is not about...
If you keep even hall an eye on the management press chances are you have come across the concept of knowledge management. Emerging at the beginning of the 1990s, knowledge management is now a well-established school of thought with its own dedicated consulting companies journals and...
This paper examines corporate entrepreneurship in multinational corporations through a detailed study of initiatives taken by foreign subsidiaries. We develop a theoretical model in which two levels of organizational context corporate and subsidiary promote or suppress subsidiary initiative, and initiative in turn has...
How is the formation of regional trading blocks, such as the EU and NAFTA, affecting the organizational structure of large multinational corporations? The opportunity to integrate operations and benefit from previously unattainable economies of scale is greater today than ever before. To take advantage of this opportunity, some of...
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