Ghoshal Fellows
Ghoshal Fellows Projects
Productivity and Performance Projects:
Developing new products and services often requires organisations to work and share ideas with many different organisations. However, many organisations appear to suffer from the 'not invented here' syndrome, closing themselves off from opportunities to collaborate with those outside their firm. In order to overcome this myopia, organisations have been advised to become 'open innovators', building new collaborative relationships with many external actors.
This project develops an international management data set to address such questions, building on the authors’ previous work that surveyed management practices in around 750 medium-sized manufacturing firms in the UK, France, Germany and the US. This fellowship enhances the previous project in three ways.
This research programme attempts to investigate the nature of long-run technological change and productivity growth in service industries, and to establish whether and how they differ from manufacturing, by linking qualitative and quantitative expertise from three different disciplines: business history/management science (organisation level), industrial economics (industry level), and economic history (long-run productivity effect on economy).
This project examines joint-ventures and alliances between British and Chinese firms in mainland China to understand what each side is gaining from such partnerships, particularly in terms of developing new capabilities for innovation. As these firms collaborate to serve the growing China market, or export products and services abroad, there is an exchange of innovation-related knowledge and capabilities.
The UK economy is dominated by services, and business services in particular are growing in employment and value added. Yet understanding of innovation has essentially been derived from studying manufacturing, and relatively little is known about how services innovate, and contribute to ‘systems of innovation’.
How do profits migrate from one part of the value chain to the next? Who stands to lose or win in the process of value chain evolution and profit migration? This project focuses on the patterns of innovation and the patterns of appropriating returns from innovation in different parts of the value chain.
Promising Practice Projects:
The second project addresses policy concerns over the relevance of management education. Policy reports indicate that little is known of how, or indeed, whether, managers use the theoretical tools that they learn in management education.
This research project has adopted this persepctive to extend prior work on strategic change, transformation and renewal. The project has primarily focussed on two major longitudinal, real-time empirical case studies of strategic change.
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