(R)Evolution Organizations and the Dynamics of the Environment /

• Main Author: Dekkers, Rob (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2005.
• Subjects: Business.; Management.; Industrial organization.; Business and Management.; Industrial Organization.

Rob Dekker’s (R)Evolution: Organizations and the Dynamics of the Environment investigates the possible changes needed for industrial organizations to adapt to and remain competitive in their ever evolving environment. (R)Evolution’s main area of contribution to these very complex issues is embedded...

Table of Contents:

• Prologue
• Stagnation and Evolution in Industry
• Evolution as Model for Business Growth
• Research Objectives and Methodology
• Interaction between Organisation and Environment as Evolutionary Process
• Evolutionary Models for Genetic Variation
• Landscape Fitness and Adaptation
• Reference Model and Hypotheses for the Evolution of Organisations
• Concluding Evolutionary Biology
• Technology Management and Innovation
• Process Innovation and Business Process Re-engineering
• Learning Organisation and Knowledge Management
• Preluding the Dynamic Adaptation
• Development of Framework for Dynamic Adaptation
• Application to Strategic Capacity Management
• Case Studies
• Epilogue
• Conclusions
• Recommendations.