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Only Sustainable Edge: Why Business Strategy Depends on Productive Friction and Dynamic Specializ...
John Seely Brown
Offshoring and outsourcing have generated savings and controversial news coverage for companies. But these technologies aren't even close to being the real story. This book identifies two forces - dynamic specialisation and productive friction that show what firms must do to understand, build and exploit these forces before their competitors do.
192 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 1, 2005 |
| ISBN13 | 9781591397205 |
| Publishers | Harvard Business Review Press |
| Pages | 192 |
| Dimensions | 243 × 167 × 25 mm · 535 g |
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