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Technological Learning and Competitive Performance (Hardcover)
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Technological Learning and Competitive Performance (Hardcover)
Series: New Horizons in the Economics of Innovation series
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Paulo Figueiredo comprehensively examines how and why latecomer
companies differ in the manner and rate at which they accumulate
technological capability over time. He focuses on how key features
of the underlying learning processes influence the paths of
technological capability accumulation and, in turn, the rate of
improvement in operational performance. The author details the
various processes and mechanisms by which a company acquires
knowledge from external and internal sources, through individuals,
and then converts, or fails to convert, it into organisational
assets. These different ways of managing technological learning are
studied in detail during the lifetime of two of the largest steel
companies in Brazil. He goes on to demonstrate that the rates of
technological capability-accumulation and operational performance
improvement can be accelerated if deliberate and effective efforts
are made to improve knowledge acquisition and knowledge conversion
processes. Indeed, these efforts are likely to generate significant
financial benefits for the company that manages these processes
effectively. The author is rigorous in his empirical analysis and
adopts an original perspective by concentrating on latecomer firms
within a non-industrialised country. The focus of analysis and the
practical approach developed within the book will interest students
and scholars of business, technology, innovation, and strategic
management, as well as providing a source of reference and
information for policymakers and managers in private and
state-owned organisations.
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