The red queen among organizations: how competitiveness evolves
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Main Author: Barnett, William P. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton Princeton University Press ©2008
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273) and index
Why are some organizations more competitive than others? -- Logics of competition -- The red queen -- Empirically modeling the red queen -- Red queen competition among commercial banks -- Red queen competition among computer manufacturers -- The red queen and organizational inertia -- Some implications of red queen competition
There's a scene in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass in which the Red Queen, having just led a chase with Alice in which neither seems to have moved from the spot where they began, explains to the perplexed girl: "It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place." Evolutionary biologists have used this scene to illustrate the evolutionary arms race among competing species. William Barnett argues that a similar dynamic is at work when organizations compete, shaping how firms and industries evolve over time. Barnett examines the effects--and unforeseen perils--of competing
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 279 pages)
ISBN:9781400824489
1400824486

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