This is the textbook presentation slides made by students from the course Management of Technology taught in fall 2011 at the Department of Business Administration, National Taiwan University. The textbook used is Strategic Management of Technological Innovation 3rd Edition by Melissa A. Schilling, New York University.
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Management of Technological Innovation 3rd Edition Ch10 Organizing for Innovation
1. Department of Business Administration Strategic Management of Technological Innovation
College of Management Melissa A. Schilling, New York University
Chapter 10
Organizing for Innovation
Presented by Group 9
B97701203 周家毅
B97701205 江承軒
B97701228 金正庭
B97607036 余奕霆
Course Lecturer: Prof. J. T. Chiang
Teaching Assistant: Hsuan-Yi Wu (Jen)
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College of Management Melissa A. Schilling, New York University
Size and Structural Dimension of the Firm
• Size
• Structural Dimension
Formalization
Standardization
centralization
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Size and Structural Dimension of the Firm
• The likelihood of innovation
• The effectiveness of innovation projects
• The speed of new product development
processes
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Size
Is bigger better?
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Joseph Schumpeter
• Large firms have more money for R&D
projects
• Large firms can gather more information
and resources
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Advantages of Size
• Scale effect (Economies of scale)
• Learning effect
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Advantages of Size
• Grow competencies in the new product
development process
• Better research equipment and personnel
• Better selections of projects fitting the
firms capabilities
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Advantages of Size
• More willing to step in risky innovation
projects
– Boeing 747
– Large pharmaceutical companies
• Large firms outperform in industries that have
large development scale
• Collaboration of small firms?
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College of Management Melissa A. Schilling, New York University
Disadvantages of Size
• Loss of managerial control while growing
bigger
• More difficult for individuals to identify the
returns of their efforts
• Harder to make innovative changes
– Xerox in 1980s
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Disadvantages of Size
• Communication & coordination become
more difficult
• Stick to existing large fixed-asset bases
• Icarus paradox
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Break Large Firms into Small Parts
• Encourage an entrepreneurial culture
• High-speed technological change
industries
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College of Management Melissa A. Schilling, New York University
Structural dimensions of the firms
• Formalization : The degree to which the firm
utilizes rules, procedures , and written
documentation to structure the behavior of
individuals or groups within the organizations.
• Standardization: The degree to which activities are
performed in a uniform manner
• Centralization/Decentralization: Centralization is
the degree to which decision-making authority is
pushed down to lower levels of the firm
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Centralized and Decentralized R&D Activities
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Mechanistic vs. Organic Structures
Mechanistic : An organization structure characterized by a
high degree of formalization and standardization , causing
operations to be almost automatic or mechanical
Organic : An organization structure characterized by a low
degree of formalization and standardization . Employees may
not have well-defined job responsibilities and operations may
be characterized by a high degree of variation
Size versus Structure
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The Ambidextrous Organization :
The Best of Both Worlds?
Ambidextrous organization : The ability of an
organization to behave almost as two different kinds of
companies at once. Different divisions of the firm may
have different structures and control systems , enabling
them to have different cultures and patterns of
operations
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Modularity 模組化
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IKEA
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Economies of scale
Heterogeneous demand
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Loosely Coupled Organizational Structures
鬆散連結組織結構
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Help focus on competitive advantages
Lower overhead and administrative cost
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Can’t frequently knowledge exchanging
less mechanism for resolving conflicts
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跨國企業如何創新?
Center-for-global strategy Local-for-local strategy
Locally leveraged Globally Linked
strategy strategy
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Q&A
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Discussion Question
• In 2003, Boeing 787 commercial jets were
manufactured from carbon fiber
composites, several partners cooperated
with Boeing with loosely coupled
organized way, and the proportion of
outsourcing of the entire production was
pretty high, the result is not as good as
expected.
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