In this book, the editors and a team of distinguished international contributors analyse the nature of organizational capabilities--how organizations do things, use their knowledge base, and diffuse that knowledge in a competitive environment.

• Introduction


• Introduction to Part 1


• Talking about Routines in the Field


• The emergence of organizational capabilities in a new cellular phone network company


• Repositories of Knowledge in Franchise Organizations


• Individual, structural, and technological


• Appropriability and the Challenge of Scope


• Banc One routinizes replication


• Limited Enquiry and Intelligent Adaptation in Semiconductor Manufacturing


• Introduction to Part 2


• In Search of Dynamic Capabilities


• The origins of RandD competence in biopharmaceuticals


• Measuring Competence?


• Exploring firm effects in pharmaceutical research


• Managing the Development and Transfer of Process Technologies in the Semiconductor Manufacturing Industry


• Introduction to Part 3


• The Abominable Ohno Production System Competences, Monitoring, and Routines in Japanese Production Systems


• Evolution of Manufacturing Systems and Ex-post Dynamic Capabilities


• A case of Toyota's final assembly operations


• Transfer and Replication of Organizational Capabilities


• Japanese transplant organizations in the United States


• Introduction to Part 4


• How Technological Competencies Help Define the Core (not the Boundaries) of the Firm


• Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management


• Organizational Capabilities in Complex Worlds

Giovanni Dosi is Professor at the Santa Anna School of Advanced Study, Pisa, Italy. In addition to writing numerous publications, he is an editor on the journal Industrial and Corporate Change, published by Oxford University Press.
Richard R. Nelson is Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.
Sidney Winter is Professor of Management at the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania.