Innovating Organization and Management
Innovating Organization and Management
Torben Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School
Jacob Pyndt, Copenhagen Consulting Company
Majken Schultz, Copenhagen Business School
The search for competitive advantage serves as the basis for organizational strategy. This book argues that there are four key sources of competitive advantage and financial success that have not been given the attention they deserve. Firstly, that organizational design and management processes may be strategic resources in their own right. Secondly, that organizational design and management processes can be deployed to create new strategic resources. Thirdly, that managers have begun to think of organizational design and management processes in a proactive way rather than seeing them more passively as necessary facilitators of success. Fourthly, that this new way of looking at organization and management requires a search for new ways of structuring organizational design and managerial processes. These points are driven home through case studies of the Danish firms LEGO Group, Vestas Wind Systems, Coloplast, Chr. Hansen, IC Companys and NKT Flexibles.
- Directs the attention of management students and practitioners to the importance of management innovations in understanding successful performance at firm level
- Explains the importance of management innovation through real cases, not just as a theoretical concept
- Includes reflection questions and discussions across the cases so that they can form the basis for classroom discussions
Reviews & endorsements
'This important book turns the spotlight on management innovation as a source of sustainable competitive advantage. Using detailed case studies of six successful Danish companies, [it] make[s] the case that it is just as important for executives to think creatively about how they work, as they do about the products and services they sell. This book has important practical implications for business people, and it offers a useful new theoretical lens through which academics can understand corporate success.' Julian Birkinshaw, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, London Business School
'This book provides great insights in[to] the actual leadership and management processes of key Danish companies.' Yves Doz, Solvay Chair of Technological Innovation, INSEAD
Product details
January 2012Paperback
9781107648227
260 pages
228 × 154 × 13 mm
0.43kg
35 b/w illus. 14 tables
Available
Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- 1. New sources of competitive advantage
- 2. Causes of firm success: from resources to organization and management
- 3. LEGO: redefining the boundaries
- 4. Vestas: the will to win(d)
- 5. Coloplast: innovating innovation
- 6. Chr. Hansen: collaborative forms under private equity ownership
- 7. IC Companys: creative genius and commercial attitudes
- 8. NKT Flexibles: global sourcing of R and D innovation
- 9. Concluding reflections: innovating organization and management to stay competitive
- Index.
