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The Business of Systems Integration
Andrea Prencipe, Andrew Davies, and Michael Hobday
396 pages
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234x156mm
978-0-19-926322-6
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Hardback
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20 November 2003
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- Provides a theoretical, analytical, and empirical grounding for the issue of systems integration.
- Utilizes evidence from Europe, the US, and Japan.
- Contributions from leading international academics.
Over the past decade or so, systems integration has become a key factor in the operations, strategy and competitive advantage of major corporations in a wide variety of sectors (e.g. computing, automotive, telecommunications, military systems and aerospace). Systems integration is a strategic task that pervades business management not only at the technical level but also at the management and strategic levels. This book shows how and why this new kind of systems integration has evolved into an emerging model of industrial organization whereby firms, and groups of firms, join together different types of knowledge, skill and activity, as well as hardware, software,
and human resources to produce new products for the marketplace.
This book is the first to systematically explore systems integration from a business and innovation perspective. Contributors delve deeply into the nature, dimensions and dynamics of the new systems integration, deploying research and analytical techniques from a wide variety of disciplines including, the theory of the firm, the history of technology, industrial organization, regional studies, strategic management, and innovation studies. This wealth of research capability provides deep insights into the new model of systems integration and supports this with an abundance of empirical evidence.
The book is organized in three main parts. The first part focuses on the history of
systems integration. Contributors trace the early history of systems integration using different industrial examples. The second part presents theoretical and analytical aspects of systems integration. Contributions concentrate on the regulatory and cognitive features of systems integration, the relationships between systems integration and regional competitive advantage, and the way in which systems integration supports the competitive advantage of firms. The third part takes industry and firm-level approaches. Contributions focus on different sectors and highlight the specificity of systems integration in various industrial domains, stressing its importance for systems integration in the case of complex capital goods, such as aircraft and telecommunications equipment, as well as consumer
goods, such as personal computers and automobiles.
Readership: Academics, researchers and graduate students in management studies, economics, and technology management.
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Andrea Prencipe, Research Fellow at the Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, and Associate Professor of Economics and Management of Innovation at the University G. D'Annunzio, Italy, Andrew Davies, Senior Fellow at the Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, and Michael Hobday, Director of the Complex Products Systems Innovation Centre, University of Sussex Contributors:
Michael H. Best, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Henry Chesbrough, Harvard Business School
Andrew Davies, Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University
of Sussex
Giovanni Dosi, Scuola Superiore Di Studi Universitari 'Santa Anna'
Michael Hobday, Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex
Takahiro Fujimoto, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo,
Eugene Gholz, Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce, University of Kentucky
Stephen B. Johnson, Space Studies Department, University of North Dakota
Luigi Marengo, University of Teramo
Maureen McKelvey, Chalmers University of Technology
Keith Pavitt, Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex
Massimo Paoli, Facoltà di Economia, University of Perugia
Andrea Prencipe, Science and Technology Policy Research
Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex
Mari Sako, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Harvey M. Sapolsky, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
W. Edward Steinmueller, Science and Technology Policy Research Unit (SPRU), University of Sussex
Akira Takeishi, Institute of Innovation Research, Hitotsubashi University
Fredrik Tell, Department of Management and Economics, Linkoping University
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"Systems integration has become a core strategic capability for businesses seeking competitive advantage in technologically complex, globalized industries. The editors of this volume have gathered together the best thinking from around the world on this vital subject. The result is an outstanding, pathbreaking book, filled with valuable insights for practitioners and researchers alike." - Richard K. Lester, Director, Industrial Performance Center
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Richard Nelson: Preface
1: Michael Hobday, Andrea Prencipe, and Andrew Davies: Introduction
Part I: The History of Systems Integration
2: Harvey M. Sapolsky: Inventing Systems Integration
3: Stephen B. Johnson: Systems Integration and the Social Solution of Technical Problems in Complex Systems
4: Fredrik Tell: Integrating Electrical Power Systems: From Individual to Organizational Capabilities
5: Keith Pavitt: Specialization and Systems Integration: Where Manufacture and Services Still Meet
Part II: Theoretical and Conceptual Perspectives on Systems Integration
6: Giovanni Dosi, Michael Hobday, Luigi Marengo, and Andrea Prencipe: The Economics of Systems Integration: Towards an Evolutionary Interpretation
7: Andrea Prencipe: Corporate Strategy and Systems Integration Capabilities: Managing Networks in Complex Systems Industries
8: W. Edward Steinmueller: The Role of Technical Standard in Coordinating the Division of Labour in Complex Systems Industries
9: Massimo Paoli: The Cognitive Basis of System Integration: Redundancy of Context Generating Knowledge
10: Henry Chesbrough: Towards a Dynamics of Modularity: A Cyclical Model of Technical Advance
Part III: Competitive Advantage and Systems Integration
11: Michael H. Best: The Geography of Systems Integration
12: Mari Sako: Modularity and Outsourcing: The Nature of Co-Evolution of Product Architecture and Organization Architecture in the Global Automotive Industry
13: Akira Takeishi and Takahiro Fujimoto: Modularization in the Car Industry: Inter-Linked Multiple Hierarchies of Product, Production, and Supplier Systems
14: Eugene Gholz: Systems Integration in the US Defence Industry: Who Does It and Why Is It Important?
15: Maureen McKelvey: Changing Boundaries of Innovation Systems: Linking Market Demand and Use
16: Andrew Davies: Integrated Solutions: The Changing Business of Systems Integration
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