Catching Up and Leapfrogging
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Catching Up and Leapfrogging

  1. 156 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Catching Up and Leapfrogging

About this book

Ever since Schumpeter's groundbreaking work there has been a plethora of new research seeking to extend the direction and dynamics of innovation. Using a rich account of detailed interviews, this book offers new evidence on how latecomers have successfully caught up and leapfrogged incumbent firms.

Catching Up and Leapfrogging: the new latecomers in the integrated circuits industry explores how technological transitions affect latecomer catch-up strategies, and vice versa, in a high technology industry. It looks to the East Asian latecomers who, towards the end of thetwentieth century, pioneered a new pathway through organizational change by specializing in the key production stages of integrated circuits and pushing technologies further. This volume assesses how latecomer resource acquisition strategies have varied alongside structural industry changes and evaluates the mechanisms through which firms started life as technology followers and rose to become technology leaders.

Xiao-Shan Yap and Rajah Rasiah present a unique story about how firm strategies evolve from the catching up phase to the leapfrogging phase, captured from the accounts of managers on the ground. It is the first time firm-level strategies have been systematically analysed to describetwenty-first century strategic management in the integrated circuits industry in particular, and the high tech industry in general.

The evidence and analysis in this book offers insights for chief executive officers, policy-makers and researchers to revisit existing approaches to the theory of catching up and leapfrogging.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781315449876
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. List of tables
  9. Preface
  10. List of abbreviations
  11. 1 Introduction
  12. 2 Technical regimes, catch-up and organizational dynamics
  13. 3 Technological regimes, organizational boundaries and patterns of innovation
  14. 4 Resource acquisition strategies and catching up
  15. 5 Co-evolutionary lock-in as a strategic mechanism
  16. 6 Synthesis and implications
  17. Index