How Firms Really Work
eBook - ePub

How Firms Really Work

A Social Sciences Perspective

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eBook - ePub

How Firms Really Work

A Social Sciences Perspective

About this book

To perform effectively in any leadership position in a firm you need to first understand how firms actually work. This book, built on three decades of thinking, researching, and engaging with practitioners, sets out an integrated social science perspective that takes as its starting point that all firms are complex open systems.

How Firms Really Work explores a wide range of topics related to

  • The firm's value system, transformation risk and the role of knowhow in the value creation process 
  •  The firm's lifecycle including co-evolution of firms and markets 
  •  Managing hybrid configurations
  • The impact of technology on value creation and value capture

With its extensive use of figures and case examples to illustrate its points, this book offers a comprehensive yet broad perspective on the reality of modern firms. Scholars, researchers, and students will find the bringing together of previously unconnected bodies of knowledge into a coherent account of the birth and development of a firm to be very insightful, while professionals armed with the book's perspectives will be able to assume leadership positions with more confidence.

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Information

Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2026
Topic
Business
eBook ISBN
9783112226261
Subtopic
Management
Index
Business

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Frontmatter
  5. Contents
  6. Chapter 1 What is Value?
  7. Chapter 2 Complex Systems and Structuration
  8. Chapter 3 The Birth of a Firm
  9. Chapter 4 The Value Capture Process
  10. Chapter 5 Power Relationships
  11. Chapter 6 Value-Creating Knowhow
  12. Chapter 7 Assets and Capabilities
  13. Chapter 8 Managing Assets
  14. Chapter 9 Controlling Action
  15. Chapter 10 The Life Cycle of the Firm
  16. Chapter 11 Market Life Cycles and Panarchy
  17. Chapter 12 The Renewal Loop and Hybrid Configurations
  18. Chapter 13 How Firms Change
  19. Chapter 14 Cognitions, Context and Action
  20. Chapter 15 Experience and Decision Making
  21. Chapter 16 Strategy Processes
  22. Chapter 17 Executive Pay: Is there a problem?
  23. Chapter 18 The Role of Technology in the Creation and Capture of Value
  24. Chapter 19 Corporations
  25. Chapter 20 A Capital Perspective
  26. Index

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