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The Red Queen among Organizations

The Red Queen among Organizations

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There’s a scene in Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass in which the Red Queen, having just led a chase with Alice in which neither seems to have moved from the spot where they began, explains to the perplexed girl: “It takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.” Evolutionary biologists have used this scene to illustrate the evolutionary arms race among competing species. William Barnett argues that a similar dynamic is at work when organizations compete, shaping how firms and industries evolve over time…

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“The most ambitious and important new book is The Red Queen among Organizations, by William P. Barnett. . . . [I]t is the best strategy book of the year because of its main insights: Competition concerns relative performance, not absolute performance; a company’s competitiveness is context specific, and contexts can change, giving rise to the competency trap; learning comes from competing, not isolation from competition; and differentiation is desirable as a way to secure rents, but must be pursued in the context of competition, not in the vain hopes of avoiding it.”—Phil Rosenzweig, Stratgey & Business

About the Author

William P. Barnett is the Thomas M. Siebel Professor of Business Leadership, Strategy, and Organizations at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Published: February 2008
  • ISBN: 9781400824489
  • Title: The Red Queen among Organizations
  • Author: William P. Barnett
  • Imprint: Princeton University Press
  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 296 [disclaimer]

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