"This book grew out of a conference on the Evolution of firm capabilities, held in September 1999 at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College"--Ackn

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine derived contents note: 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 -- Steven Klepper and Kenneth L. Simons -- 3 The Nature, Sources, and Consequences of Firm Differences in the Early History of the Semiconductor -- Industry -- Daniel Holbrook, Wesley M. Cohen, David A. Hounshell, -- and Steven Klepper -- 4 Superstores and the Evolution of Firm Capabilities in American Bookselling -- Daniel M.G. Raff -- 5 Commentary on Chapters by Klepper and Simons, by Holbrook et al., and by Raff. -- Keith Pavitt -- 6 Imprinting and the Evolution of Firm Capabilities Daniel A. Levinthal -- 7 Imprinting or Emergence, Structure or Rules, or Why Dirty Dancing Is Always Better When You Are More Than -- Two -- Bruce Kogut -- 8 Strategic Capabilities in Emerging Fields: Navigating Ambiguity, Leveraging Social Capital, and Creating -- Identity in Silicon Alley -- Theresa K. Lant -- Part II Incremental Development and Change -- 9 Why Do Firms Tend to Become Different? -- Birger Wernerfelt -- 10 Firm Capabilities and Competition and Industrial -- Policies in a "History Friendly" Model of the Evolution -- of the Computer Industry -- Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo, and -- Sidney G. Winter -- 11 Problem-solving Behaviors, Organizational Forms, and the -- Complexity of Tasks -- Giovanni Dosi, Mike Hobday, and Luigi Marengo -- 12 Product Sequencing: Co-evolution of Knowledge, -- Capabilities, and Products -- 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 -- Samina Karim and Will Mitchell -- 14 Commentary on Iarim-Mitchell and Helfat-Raubitschek -- Chapters -- James Brian Quinn -- 15 The Relational Organization: From Relational Rents to -- Alliance Capability -- Harbir Singh -- 16 Innovative Routines in Large Firms: What the Evidence -- Suggests -- Keith Pavitt -- 17 The Evolutionary Roots of Resource-based Theory -- Jay B. Barney -- Part III Dealing with Radical Change 18 The Satisficing Principle in Capability Learning -- Sidney G. Winter -- 19 Untangling the Origins of Competitive Advantage -- lain M. Cockburn, Rebecca M. Henderson, and Scott Stern -- 20 Strategy and Circumstance: The Response of American -- Firms to Japanese Competition in Semiconductors, -- 1980-1995 -- Richard N. Langlois and W. Edward Steinmueller -- 21 Dynamic Capabilities: What Are They? -- Kathleen M. Eisenhardt and Jeffrey A. Martin -- 22 Leadership, Capabilities, and Technological Change: The -- Transformation of NCR in the Electronic Era -- Richard S. Rosenbloom -- 23 Capabilities, Cognition, and Inertia: Evidence from Digital -- Imaging -- 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 -- Steven W. Usselman -- 25 Toward Developing an Organizational Capability of -- Learning from Mistakes -- Sydney Finkelstein -- 26 Resources, Capabilities, Core Competencies, Invisible -- Assets, and Knowledge Assets: Label Proliferation and -- Theory Development in the Field of Strategic Management -- Jay B. Barney -- Index.

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