D. Eleanor Westney – författare

How and why does an industry change, or not change, over time? Today major technological and geopolitical discontinuities are forcing industry leaders, policymakers, consultants, and scholars to pay new attention to industry dynamics. This attention, however, often lacks context and awareness of the significant differences across industries and their dynamics across time and across locations. The Oxford Handbook of Industry Dynamics provides that context. With eight chapters on conceptual frameworks and over thirty chapters providing long-term, in-depth overviews of a single industry or groups of industries by scholarly experts, this Handbook is an essential resource, highlighting the heterogeneity of industry dynamics, but also revealing striking and sometimes surprising similarities.The industries covered range from those that pre-date the very concept of an industry, including agriculture and textiles, to those that are barely decades old, such as mobile telephone equipment and cryptocurrency. The Handbook also includes chapters by leading scholars (including Gary Gereffi, David Teece, and James Utterback) on how their own research on industries has developed over time. Complemented by an extensive overview of how the concept of industry itself has evolved, the Handbook reveals the wide variety of ways in which scholars, practitioners, and policymakers have thought about industry and how that thinking has developed over time. The volume provides new insights into both the importance and the complexity of the concept of industry and into the range of perspectives taken by those who study and use this ubiquitous and yet often taken-for-granted term.

Despite a shared interest in the analysis of complex organizations operating in complex environments, macro-organization theory and research on the multinational corporation have developed quite independently of each other. This book, the product of a collaborative endeavour by scholars from both fields, represents the first systematic effort to build a broad bridge between these two areas of research.

Smart Globalization is a compendium of leading-edge thinking on global strategy first published in the acclaimed MIT Sloan Management Review. The central premise underlying this book is that globalization can be a double-edged sword. The global or globalizing firm has the potential to reap several types of benefits such as the vast potential of a much larger market arena, opportunities to capture scale- and location-based cost efficiencies, and exposure to a multiplicity of new product and process ideas. However, globalization also exposes the firm to numerous strategic and organizational challenges emanating from a dramatic increase in diversity, complexity, and uncertainty - external as well as internal to the firm. How managers address these challenges determines whether globalization yields competitive advantage or disadvantage and makes the company stronger or weaker. "Smart" globalization is the ability to capture the benefits and minimize the costs and risks.Smart Globalization's expert contributors3/4leaders in the design of winning global strategies and in the creation of effective global networks3/4include: David J. Arnold, Christopher A. Bartlett, Julian M. Birkeinshaw, J. Stewart Black, Joseph N. Fry, Sumantra Ghoshal, Vijay Govindarajan, Hal B. Gregersen, Anil K. Gupta, Stuart L. Hart, W. Chan Kim, Bruce Kogut, David L. Levy, Renée A. Mauborgne, Allen J. Morrison, Mark B. Milstein, Das Narayandas, John A. Quelch, Gordon Swartz, Stephen E. Weiss, and George S. Yip.