Title :
Strategy and technology: forming patterns of external relationships
Author :
Fouts, Paul ; Brown, Warren B.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Bus., Golden Gate Univ., San Francisco, CA, USA
Abstract :
This paper suggests that a firm´s strategic orientation constrains its core resource base and influences the pattern of technology relationships that it undertakes. The research results suggest that strategic configuration theory, resource-based theory, and industry-level technology evolution models are consistent, and combine to explain a firm´s pattern of technology relationships
Keywords :
management; external relationships; industry-level technology evolution models; research design; resource base; resource-based theory; strategic configuration theory; strategic orientation; technology relationships; Continuous improvement; Couplings; Educational institutions; Inductors; Industrial relations; Manufacturing processes; Market opportunities; Product development; Production; Snow;
Conference_Titel :
Innovation in Technology Management - The Key to Global Leadership. PICMET '97: Portland International Conference on Management and Technology
Conference_Location :
Portland, OR
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3574-0
DOI :
10.1109/PICMET.1997.653235
