Systems Integration: A Core Capability of the Modern Corporation

By M. Hobday, Andrew Davies, Andrea Prencipe. 2005

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Solutions offerings : A critical review and reconceptualisation (2010, unknown): “that solutions should by definition be regarded as ongoing relational processes, while Hobday et al. (2005)”
Learning Paths to Offshore Outsourcing - From Cost Reduction to Knowledge Seeking (2007, methodology): “However, new research methodologies permit greater codification of scientific knowledge and standardization of some R&D work, which facilitates the geographical dispersal of R&D units (Patel and Pavitt, 1991; Hobday et al., 2005; UNCTAD, 2005).”
Global production networks: realizing the potential (2008, background): “Andersen and Christensen (2005) identify five types of supplier which, they argue, may act as important ‘connective nodes’ in GPNs, while Hobday et al. (2005) focus upon the processes of system integration involving complex networks of firms.”
Connecting local entrepreneurial ecosystems to global innovation networks: open innovation, double networks and knowledge integration (2011, background): “A broader shift to disperse R&D was evident by the early 1990s (Howells, 1990; Howells and Wood, 1993), and Pearce (1999) identified a decline of centralising forces.”