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Organizations, Innovation And Competitiveness

Prof. Benjamin Coriat
Date: 01 a 11 de novembro de 2001


Objetivo do Curso:
The course is divided into into 6 successive blocks. The main authors are indicated after each block. For details, see the attached bibiograhy.

1a. Sessão - « Organisation » : Problems of definition, main characteristics, firm and non-firm organizations
(Lectures 1 & 2)

March and Simon (1993)
Simon (1991)
Cyert and march (1967)

2a. Sessão - The notion of Mode of Coordination : its relevance for institutionnal and organizationnal analysis
(Lectures 3 & 4)

Akerloff (1984)
Aoki (1988) (1990)
Nelson and Winter (1982)
Cohen et al (1996)
Coriat and Dosi (1998b)
Coriat (2000)

3a. Sessão - Organization and Institution: different approaches, their strenghts, relevance and limits
(Lecture 5)

March and Simon (1993)
Chandler (1990) (1991) (1992)
Coriat and Weintein (1995)
Coriat and Dosi (1998a)
David (1994)

4a. Sessão – The Notion of Organizationnal Innovation : Organizationnal innovation and Competitiveness
(Lectures 6 & 7)

Leibenstein (1966) (1982)
Coriat in Andreassen et al (1995)
Chandler (1991) (1992)
Coriat (1995b) (2000a)
Coriat and Weintein (2001)
Ohno (1998a)

5a. Sessão - Appled studies on Organizationnal innovations (main findings from National and/or Sectoral surveys on this topics)
(Lecture 8)


Andreassen et al (1995)
Lay et al (1999)
Coriat (2000b) and (2000c)


 


4a. Sessão – The Notion of Organizationnal Innovation : Organizationnal innovation and Competitiveness
(Lectures 6 & 7)

Leibenstein (1966) (1982)
Coriat in Andreassen et al (1995)
Chandler (1991) (1992)
Coriat (1995b) (2000a)
Coriat and Weintein (2001)
Ohno (1998a)

5a. Sessão - Appled studies on Organizationnal innovations (main findings from National and/or Sectoral surveys on this topics)
(Lecture 8)


Andreassen et al (1995)
Lay et al (1999)
Coriat (2000b) and (2000c)

6a. Sessão - Comparative Analysis of National Industrial Organizations Structures - Lessons from the « Made In »
(Lectures 9 & 10)

Caves (1989)
Coriat and Taddei (1993)
Coriat (2000)
Dertouzos et al (1989)
Yoshikawa (1999)

Bibliography

Adler P.S. & Cole R.E. (1993), « Designed for Learning : A Tale of Two Auto Plants » in Sloan Management Review, Spring.

Akerlof, G. (1984), «Gift exchange and efficiency wage theory : Four Views », American Economic Review, Proceedings, May, vol. 74.

Andreassen, L., B. Coriat, F. Den Hartog and R. Kaplinsky (Eds.), Europe’s Next Step - Organizational Innovation, Competition and Employment, Ed. Frank Cass, London.

Aoki, M. (1988), Information, Incentives and Bargaining Structure in the Japanese Economy, Cambridge, New York, Cambridge University Press.

Aoki, M. (1990), « Towards an Economic Theory of the Japanese Firm », Journal of Economic Literature, 26/1.

Argyris, C. and D. A. Schön (1996). Organizational Learning. Theory, Method, and Practice, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.Chandler, A.D., P. Hagström and O. Sölvell (eds) (1998), The Dynamic Firm. The Role of Technology, Strategy, Organisation and Regions, Oxford/New York, Oxford University Press.

Bain J.S (1967) « Economical and political Theories Concerning Industrial Organization » in Industrial Organization, 2sd edition, John WILEY and son Inc, NY, London, Sydney.

Caves R.E « International Differences in Industrial Organization » in Industrial Organization vol II edited by Richard Schmalensee and R. Willig, Northholland, 1989.

Chandler A.D (1990) The Visible Hand. The Managerial Revolution in American Business, Cambridge : Belknap/harvard University Press.

Chandler A.D (1991) « The Functions of the HQ Unit in the Multibusiness Firm » in Strategic Mangement Journal, vol 12

Chandler A.D (1992) « Organizational Capabilties and the Economic History of the Industrial Entreprise » in Journal of Economic Perspective, Vol 6, Number 3, Summer, (pp.79-100)

Cohen, M. D., R. Burkhart, G. Dosi, M. Egidi, L. Marengo, M. Warglien, S. Winter and B. Coriat. (1996). 'Routines and other Recurring Action Patterns of Organization: Contemporary Research Issues', Industrial and Corporate Change 5: 653-699.

Coriat, B. (1991), Penser à l’nvers : Travail et organisation dans l’entreprise japonaise.

Christian Bourgois, Paris, 3ème éd. 1994.(Brazilian edition 1995, Rio de Janeiro)

Coriat, B. (1992), « The Revitalization of Mass Production in the Computer Age », in M. Storper and A. Scott (eds), Parthways to Industrialization and Regional Development. Routledge, London.

Coriat, B. (1995), « Variety, Routines, and Networks : The Metamorphosis of Fordist Firms » in Industrial and Corporate Change, Review, Oxford University Press, Vol. 4, Number 1.

Coriat, B. (2000a). ‘The “Abominable Ohno Production System”. Competences, Monitoring, and Routines in Japanese Production Systems’, in Dosi et al. (Eds.).

Coriat, B. (2000b) 'Organisational innovation in European firms: A critical overview of the survey evidence', DYNACOM Working Paper, published in Archibuggi and Lundval (2001)

Coriat, B. (2000c) 'The state of organizational reform in the European firms. Evidence from a comparative overview of ten EU countries', DYNACOM Working Paper. Under revision for the Cambridge Journal of Economics

Coriat, B. and G. Dosi (1998a). 'Learning How To Govern and Learning How To Solve Problems : on the Co-Evolution of Competences, Conflicts and Organizational Routines', in A. D.

Chandler, Jr., P. Hagström and Ö. Sölvell (Eds.), The Dynamic Firm, Oxford University Press.

Coriat, B. and G. Dosi (1998b). 'The Institutional Embeddedness of Economic Change. An Appraisal of the “Evolutionary” and the “Regulationist” Research Programme', in K. Nielsen and B. Johnson (Eds.), Institutions and Economic Change, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar,.

Coriat B., Taddei D. [1993], Made in France - L’industrie française dans la compétition mondiale , Ed. le Livre de Poche, Hachette.

Coriat, B. and O. Weinstein (1995). Les nouvelles théories de l’entreprise, Le livre de poche, Librairie Générale Française.

Coriat B., Geoffron P and Rubinstein M (2000) Some Limitations to Japanese Competitiveness, in Japanese Capitalism in Crisis – A regulationist Interpretation ed by R. Boyer and T. Yamada, Roudtlege, London

Coriat, B. and O. Weinstein (1996). 'Sur la Théorie Évolutionniste de la Firme'. Communication au Colloque : L’evolutionnisme, Fondements, Perspectives et Réalisations, Sorbonne, Paris, 19 - 20 September 1996.

Coriat, B. and O. Weinstein (2001). 'Organization and Institution in the generation of innovations', Research Policy.

Cyert R.M. & March J.G. (1967), A behavioral Theory of the Firm, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, Prentice-Hall Inc.

David, P.A. (1994), 'Why are institutions "the carriers" of history? Path-dependence and the evolution of conventions, organizations and institutions', Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, vol.5, n°2

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Dosi, G. and L. Marengo (1994). 'Some Elements of an Evolutionnary Theory of Organizational Competences', in R. W. England (Ed.), Evolutionary Concepts in Contemporary Economics, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press

Dosi, G. and L. Marengo (1999)(B). 'On the tangled discourse between transaction costs economics and competence-based views of the firm: Some comments', DYNACOM Working Paper.

Dosi, G., R. Nelson , S. Winter (2000)(A). ‘Introduction: The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Capabilities’, in Dosi et al. (Eds).

Dosi, G., R. R. Nelson and S. G. Winter (Eds.) (2000). The Nature and Dynamics of Organizational Capabilities, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

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March, T.G. and H. Simon (1993), Organization, 2nd ed., Oxford, Basil Blackwell.

Marengo, L. (1992), « Coordination and Organisational Learning in the Firm », Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2, pp. 313-26.

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