Authors: Joao Mota; Luis de Castro
New perspectives arose of recently about the division of work in industry and the coordinatingmechanisms thereof (Langlois and Robertson, 1995). This paper looks at the coordinationof activities and division of work in industry from the industrial networksperspective. Both the notion of relationships between firms, seen as co-ordinatingmechanisms (Axelsson and Easton, 1992) and joint learning devices (Håkansson, 1993) , andthe notion of firms as sets of direct and indirect capabilities (Loasby, 1998a, 1998b) are usedin order to characterise and contrast the trajectories (development paths) of four firms fromthe Portuguese industry of moulds for plastic injection.
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Publish Year: 2000
Conference: Bath, U.K (2000)