| Description |
xxi, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: 1. Introduction 1 -- Michael Hobday, Andrea Prencipe, and Andrew Davies -- Part I. The History of Systems Integration -- 2. Inventing Systems Integration 15 -- Harvey M. Sapolsky -- 3. Systems Integration and the Social Solution of Technical -- Problems in Complex Systems 35 -- Stephen B. Johnson -- 4. Integrating Electrical Power Systems: From Individual to -- Organizational Capabilities 56 -- Fredrik Tell -- 5. Specialization and Systems Integration: Where Manufacture and -- Services Still Meet 78 -- Keith Pavitt -- Part II. Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives on Systems Integration -- 6. The Economics of Systems Integration: Towards an -- Evolutionary Interpretation 95 -- Giovanni Dosi, Mike Hobday, Luigi Marengo, and Andrea Prencipe -- .7. Corporate Strategy and Systems Integration Capabilities: -- Managing Networks in Complex Systems Industries 114 -- Andrea Prencipe -- 8. The Role of Technical Standards in Coordinating the -- Division of Labour in Complex System Industries 133 -- W. Edward Steinmueller -- -- -- -- 9. The Cognitive Basis of Systems Integration: Redundancy of -- Context-generating Knowledge 152 -- Massimo Paoli -- 10. Towards a Dynamics of Modularity: A Cyclical Model of -- Technical Advance 174 -- Henry Chesbrough -- Part III. Competitive Advantage and Systems Integration -- 11. The Geography of Systems Integration 201 -- Michael H. Best -- 12. Modularity and Outsourcing: The Nature of Co-evolution of -- Product Architecture and Organization Architecture in the -- Global Automotive Industry 229 -- Mari Sako -- 13. Modularization in the Car Industry: Interlinked Multiple -- Hierarchies of Product, Production, and Supplier Systems 254 -- Akira Takeishi and Takahiro Fujimoto -- 14. Systems Integration in the US Defence Industry: -- Who Does It and Why Is It Important? 279 -- Eugene Gholz -- 15. Changing Boundaries of Innovation Systems: Linking Market -- Demand and Use 307 -- Maureen McKelvey -- 16. Integrated Solutions: The Changing Business of -- Systems Integration 333 -- Andrew Davies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Systems integration.
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Industrial organization.
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Industrial management.
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Technological innovations.
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Business enterprises -- Computer networks -- Management.
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Information technology -- Management.
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Management information systems.
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| Author |
Prencipe, Andrea.
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Davies, Andrew, 1960-
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Hobday, Michael.
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Oxford University Press.
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| LC no. |
2003065257 |
| ISBN |
019926323X paperback |
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0199263221 |
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