| | ix | |
| PART I New political economy | | 1 | (106) |
| Two themes, three disciplines and five perspectives |
| | 3 | (14) |
| | 3 | (3) |
| | 6 | (7) |
| | 13 | (4) |
| From modernism to neo-modern political economy |
| | 17 | (20) |
| | 17 | (1) |
| The modernist project challenged |
| | 18 | (4) |
| Western modernism (1500--1950s) |
| | 22 | (4) |
| | 26 | (7) |
| Neo-modern political economy |
| | 33 | (4) |
| Organisation theory: design rules |
| | 37 | (29) |
| | 37 | (2) |
| Theorising orthodox organisation design |
| | 39 | (17) |
| Key problems for design rules |
| | 56 | (3) |
| Complexity, requisite variety and autopoetic systems |
| | 59 | (4) |
| Revisiting Burns and Stalker (1961) |
| | 63 | (3) |
| Structuration, domain theory and the realist turn |
| | 66 | (21) |
| | 66 | (1) |
| Recursiveness, morphogenesis and structuration |
| | 67 | (2) |
| Domain theory and improvisation |
| | 69 | (7) |
| | 76 | (11) |
| Organisation economics and economic sociology |
| | 87 | (20) |
| | 87 | (1) |
| Differences: economics and sociology |
| | 88 | (3) |
| | 91 | (9) |
| | 100 | (5) |
| | 105 | (2) |
| PART II Competition between contexts | | 107 | (104) |
| Long-term political economy: hegemony, dependence and markets |
| | 109 | (24) |
| | 109 | (1) |
| Hegemony, dependence and markets |
| | 110 | (3) |
| Analytically structured narratives sans grandeur |
| | 113 | (8) |
| Explaining the North Atlantic dimension: Landes |
| | 121 | (7) |
| Design knowledge: intensity and compression |
| | 128 | (5) |
| National innovation-design systems |
| | 133 | (25) |
| | 133 | (1) |
| National networks of design knowledge |
| | 133 | (7) |
| Locations and inter-firm clusters: competition between contexts |
| | 140 | (12) |
| Ecletic diamonds: combining Dunning and Porter |
| | 152 | (2) |
| Five types of national business system: Whitley |
| | 154 | (4) |
| Nations: structural and institutional variations |
| | 158 | (22) |
| | 158 | (2) |
| National culture: actor--system independence |
| | 160 | (4) |
| | 164 | (5) |
| Inter-sectoral dynamics: Sorge |
| | 169 | (8) |
| | 177 | (3) |
| | 180 | (14) |
| | 180 | (1) |
| Knowledge-based capitalism |
| | 181 | (2) |
| | 183 | (3) |
| Instrumental rationality: choreographed overlayers |
| | 186 | (2) |
| Constituting large-scale corporate systems |
| | 188 | (1) |
| | 189 | (2) |
| | 191 | (2) |
| | 193 | (1) |
| Sectoral clusters and competition between contexts |
| | 194 | (17) |
| | 194 | (2) |
| Creating a sectoral cluster by Marks & Spencer |
| | 196 | (3) |
| Sectoral cluster of firms |
| | 199 | (2) |
| Why Henry Ford would have failed if he had started from the Birmingham--Coventry corridor, England |
| | 201 | (10) |
| PART III Firms: capabilities and transformative potential | | 211 | (78) |
| Resource-based strategic analysis |
| | 213 | (17) |
| | 213 | (1) |
| Resource-based strategic analysis |
| | 214 | (5) |
| | 219 | (7) |
| Resource-based strategic theory |
| | 226 | (2) |
| | 228 | (2) |
| Contingent recurrent action patterns and repertoires |
| | 230 | (19) |
| | 230 | (2) |
| Event cycles and temporality: Weick or Katz and Kahn |
| | 232 | (3) |
| Structural pose and recurrent action patterns |
| | 235 | (6) |
| Distributed activity systems: sugar beet |
| | 241 | (4) |
| Repertoires: activation and assembling |
| | 245 | (2) |
| Conversations and agendas as mechanisms: Boden |
| | 247 | (2) |
| Knowledges: contested, distributed and explacit |
| | 249 | (18) |
| | 249 | (1) |
| New production of knowledge capital |
| | 250 | (1) |
| | 251 | (2) |
| Resource-based theory of knowledge: problems |
| | 253 | (5) |
| | 258 | (2) |
| Explacit knowledge frameworks |
| | 260 | (3) |
| | 263 | (2) |
| Corporate knowledge and parenting |
| | 265 | (2) |
| | 267 | (22) |
| | 267 | (1) |
| | 267 | (2) |
| Reproduction or transformation |
| | 269 | (2) |
| Morphogenesis/ stasis: analytic duality |
| | 271 | (6) |
| | 277 | (4) |
| Retro-organisation theory? |
| | 281 | (4) |
| Difference and alternatives |
| | 285 | (2) |
| | 287 | (2) |
| PART IV Zones of manoeuvre | | 289 | (25) |
| Organisational management and zones of manoeuvre |
| | 291 | (23) |
| | 291 | (2) |
| Restating themes and perspectives |
| | 293 | (5) |
| Neo-modern political economy |
| | 298 | (1) |
| | 299 | (4) |
| Contra voluntarism and determinism |
| | 303 | (2) |
| The realist perspective on organisational management |
| | 305 | (4) |
| Location and home base: entrainment and exposure |
| | 309 | (2) |
| Strategic choice revisited |
| | 311 | (2) |
| | 313 | (1) |
| Bibliography | | 314 | (25) |
| Index | | 339 | |
