Contributors

Series Preface

Introduction

SECTION I: INNOVATION

1 Improving Innovation Performance in Older Firms: The General Manager's Role

James A. Christiansen

2 Everyday Innovation/Everyday Strategy

Gerry Johnson

Anne Sigismund Huff

3 Cooperative R&D and Competence Building

Bertrand Quelin

Caroline Mothe

4 Strategic Trajectories and Patterns of Innovation

J.L. Stimpet

Michael E. Wasserman

Mulumudi Jayaram

SECTION II: ORGANIZATION

5 The H-P Way: An Application Using Deliberate and Emergent Corporate Cultures to Analyze Strategic Competitive Advantage

Stanley J. Kowalczyk

George W. Giusti

6 Good for Practice: An Integrated Theory of the Value of Alternative Organizational Forms

Raymond E. Miles

Grant Miles

Charles C. Snow

7 Strategic Reengineering: An Internal Industry Analysis Framework

Kenneth D. Pritsker

8 Changing Formal and Informal Structure to Enhance Organizational Knowledge

Tracy A. Thompson

Kathleen L. Valley

SECTION III: LEADERSHIP

9 Opening Pandora's Box: Do Good Ethics Make Good Business?

Paul C. Godfrey

David A. Whetten

Hal B. Gregersen

10 Sage, Visionary, Prophet and Priest: Leadership Styles of Knowledge Management and Wisdom

Sebastian Green

Patrice Cooper

11 Information Competences and Knowledge Creation at the Corporate Centre

Yasmin Merali

John McGee

12 Evaluating Board Performance

Don O'Neal

Howard Thomas

13 Where Do Strategic Ideas Come from?

Paul Raimond

SECTION IV: PARTNERSHIP

14 Strategic Supplier Segmentation: A Model for Managing Suppliers in the 21st Century

Jeffrey H. Dyer

Dong Sung Cho

Wujin Chu

15 An Investigation of the Knowledge Structures of French and German Managers

Steven Floyd

Michael Lubatkin

Pancho Nunes

Karsten Heppner

SECTION V: COMPETENCE

16 The Alchemy of Competence

Thomas Durand

17 Structure Decisions and the Multinational Enterprise: A Dynamic Competence Perspective

Dennis M. Garvis

William C. Bogner

18 Discovering Strategy: Competitive Advantage from Idiosyncratic Experimentation

Rita Gunther McGrath

19 Strategic Renewal and Competence Building: Four Dynamic Mechanisms

Henk W. Volberda

Charles Baden-Fuller

Index