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 Books - on strategy

2006

Strategizing, Disequilibrium and Profit. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press

Reviews:

Review by Charles C. Snow (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park 2006)
Review by Henry Wai-Chung Yeung (National University of Singapore, 2006)
Review by Douglas J. Miller and Joseph T. Mahoney (British Journal of Management, 2007)

2002

Dragon Multinational: A New Model for Global Growth, New York: Oxford University Press

Details of  "Dragon Multinational" OUP 2002 now available Read Extract

Reviews:
Review by Andrea Goldstein

Review by Derek Parker (Inside track - Financial Times, May 8 2002)
Review by Henry Wai-chung Yeung (Book review for Transnational Corporations 2002)

2000

Tiger Technology. The Creation of the Semiconductor Industry in East Asia (with Dong-Sung Cho). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Jan).

Reviews:

Review by Rajah Rasiah (Journal of Asian Studies, Feb 2002)

Review by Richard Coopey (Enterprise & Society, 2001)
Review by Raphael Kaplinsky (Technovation, 2001)
Review by Rudi Volti (Technology & Culture, 2001)
Review by Neil Saker (ASEAN Economic Bulletin, 2001)
Leapfrogged by leverage, Geoffrey Owen, Financial Times, July 24 2000

 

Books - on current concerns

2007

National Insecurity, (with Linda Weiss and Elizabeth Thurbon) Sydney: Allen and Unwin. Preview the book through http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=y0wLvsyrY48C&dq=%22john+mathews%22&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=UAnW03gCxa&sig=Nh-t-ZaFue4QEMgthIvdpb81nMo

2004

 How to Kill a Country, (with Linda Weiss and Elizabeth Thurbon) Sydney: Allen and Unwin    

   

Refereed journal publications

Strategy, industrial dynamics and organizational dynamics

2007

40. Latecomer Strategies for Catching Up: Linkage, leverage, and learning, WorldBank: Development outreach, November 2007

39. Enhancing the Role of Universities in Building National Innovative Capacity in Asia: The case of Taiwan, World Development, 2007

38. Latecomer strategies for catching-up The cases of Renewable energies and the LED program, International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation and Development, Vol 1, No. 1, 2007

37. Accelerated internationalization by emerging markets’ multinationals: The case of the white goods sector, Journal of World Business, Vol 42, 2007.

36. Latecomer strategies for catching-up: Linkage, leverage and learning, Development Outreach, World Bank, January 2007.

35. The international entrepreneurial dynamics of accelerated internationalization, Journal of International Business Studies (with Ivo Zander) Volume 38, Number 3, 2007

2006

34. Catch-up strategies and the latecomer effect in industrial development, New Political Economy, 11 (3): 312-335.

33. Response to Dunning and Narula, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 23: 153-155.

32. Dragon Multinationals: New players in 21st  century globalization, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 23: 5-27.

31. Ricardian rents or Knightian profits? More on Austrian insights on strategic organization, Strategic Organization, 4 (1): 97-108. 2005

2005

30. The intellectual roots of latecomer industrial development, International Journal of Technology and Globalisation, 1 (3/4): 433-450.

29. National innovative capacity in East Asia, Research Policy, 34: 1322- 1349 (with Mei-Chih Hu)

28. Strategy and the crystal cycle, California Management Review, 47 (2) (Winter 2005): 6-31.

2004

27. Editorial: Special issue on competitive strategies of Asian high-tech firms, International Journal of Technology Management, 29 (1/2): 1-5 .(with Poh-Kam Wong) 2004

26. Book Review Essay: New perspectives on global industrial dynamics, Academy of Management Review, July: 506-509.

2003

25 Strategizing by firms in the presence of markets for resources, Industrial and Corporate Change, Volume 12, Number 6, pp 1157-1193 

24 Competitive dynamics and economic learning: An extended resource-based view Industrial and Corporate Change, Volume 12, Number 1, pp 115 - 145 

Review: Many Worlds Review.

2002

23 Competitive Advantages of the Latecomer Firm: A resource-Based Account of Industrial Catch-Up Strategies - APJM, Volume 19, Issue 4. 
© Kluwer Academic Publishers

22 A resource-based view of Schumpeterian economic dynamics - Journal Evolutionary Economics, Springer Verlag (2002)
Copyright in this paper lies with the publishers of the Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer Verlag

2001

21The origins and dynamics of Taiwan's R&D Consortia; Research Policy.

20 National systems of economic learning: The case of technology diffusion Management in East Asia, International Journal of Technology Management.

19 Competitive interfirm dynamics within an Industrial Market System, Industry and Innovation, 8 (1): 79-107.

1999

18 'Combinative capabilities and organizational learning in latecomer firms: The case of the Korean semiconductor industry,' Journal of World Business (with Dong-Sung Cho) 34(2): 139-156;

17 'Silicon Island of the East: Creating a semiconductor industry in Singapore,' California Management Review, Winter 1999 (Jan): 55-78.

1998

16 'A conversation with Stan Shih on global strategy and management,' Organizational Dynamics, Summer 1998, 65-74 (with Charles Snow);

15 'Fashioning a new Korean model out of the crisis: the rebuilding of institutional capabilities,' Cambridge Journal of Economics, 22 (6), 747-760, December;

14 'Competing in the global Flat Panel Display industry: Introduction,' Industry and Innovation, 5 (1), 1-10 (Special issue on the global dynamics of the flat panel display industry) (with Poh-Kam Wong)

1997

13 Organizing in the Knowledge Age: Anticipating the cellular form, Academy of Management Executive, Vol. 11, No. 4 1997: 7-24 (with Ray Miles, Charles Snow and Grant Miles);

12 A Silicon Valley of the East: Creating a semiconductor industry in Taiwan, California Management Review, Vol. 39, No. 4 (Summer 1997): 26-54.

11 Introduction to the Special Issue (Organizational innovation and the sociotechnical systems tradition), Human Relations, Vol. 50, No. 5 (May 1997): 487-496.

1996

10 'High technology industrialisation in East Asia,' Journal of Industry Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Dec): 1-78.

9 'Organizational foundations of economic learning,' Human Systems Management, Vol 15, No. 2 ; pp 113-124, 1996.

8 'Holonic organisational architectures', Human Systems Management, Vol 15, pp 27-54, 1996

7 'Organizational foundations of object-oriented programming', Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 34, Issue 3, pp 247-253, 1996

1995

6 'Organizational foundations of intelligent manufacturing systems — the holonic viewpoint', Computer Integrated Manufacturing Systems, Vol. 8, Issue 4,  1995

 

 Energy

Towards a sustainably certifiable futures contract for biofuels, Energy Policy, Vol. 36, Issue 5, pp 1577-1583

Biofuels, climate change and industrial development: Can the tropical South build 2,000 biorefineries in the next decade? Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining, Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 103-125

Carbon-negative biofuels, Energy Policy, Vol. 36, Issue 3, pp 940-945

Is growing biofuel crops a crime against humanity?  Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining, Vol. 2, Issue 2, pp. 97-99

Can renewable energies be turned to a source of advantage by developing countries? Revue de l'Energie (in press; corrected proof)

Seven steps to curb global warming, Energy Policy, Volume 35, Issue 8, August 2007, Pages 4247-4259

Biofuels: What a Biopact between North and South could achieve, Energy Policy, Volume 35, Issue 7, July 2007, Pages 3550-3570

 

 

Conference papers
 

2007

Is entrepreneurship a resource? Reflections on Schumpeterian, Kirznerian and Ricardian approaches to entrepreneurial dynamics, Accepted for delivery at Copenhagen Strategic Management conference

Renewable energies, development blocs and developing countries, Paper submitted to DRUID Summer conference 2007, Denmark 18-20 June 2007

Can renewable energies be turned to a source of advantage by developing countries? Paper submitted to Conference in memory of Sanjaya Lall, Geneva March 8-9, 2007

 

2001

 Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) group
“Resources, routines and interfirm relations: Entrepreneurial and evolutionary dynamics within an Industrial Market System”, 17th IMP annual conference, Norwegian School of Management, Oslo (Sep);

Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (DRUID)
“Resources, routines and interfirm relations: Entrepreneurial and evolutionary dynamics within an Industrial Market System”, DRUID Summer conference, Aalborg, Denmark (June).

2000

European Academy of International Business
Accelerated internationalization from the Periphery’, paper delivered as competitive presentation, Maastricht, Dec

Joseph A. Schumpeter Society
‘A resource-based view of Schumpeterian competition’, Paper delivered to Manchester conference, 8th (Millennial) conference, Manchester, June ;

Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics (DRUID)
‘Competitive dynamics and economic learning’, Annual summer conference on Economic Learning and Organizational Innovation, Rebild, Denmark; June;

1999     

Academy of International Business
'The Janus face of innovation: Technology diffusion management through institutional innovation in East Asia,' Annual meeting, Charleston, South Carolina, Nov 1999.

Danish Research Unit in Industrial Dynamics (DRUID)
‘From national innovation systems to national systems of economic learning: The case of technology diffusion management in East Asia’, Annual summer conference, Rebild, Denmark, June

1998        

Academy of Management
'Jack and the Beanstalk: The creation of dynamic capabilities through knowledge leverage by latecomer firms,' AoM annual meeting, Business Policy and Strategy stream, San Diego, CA, Aug;

1997      

Academy of Management
'The competitive advantages of the latecomer firm,' AoM annual meeting, (Organization and Management Theory stream), Boston, Aug;

Asia Pacific Journal of Management
'The expansionary dynamics of the latecomer firm: The case of The Acer group,' Conference on “The emerging East Asian multinational”, National University of Singapore, Feb

Hong Kong International Computer Society
'Strategies for development of high-technology industries in East Asia,' Invited paper to Panel Discussion: The role of government in IT policy, HKICS ’97 conference, Hong Kong, 22-23 October 1997

 

Working papers

2004

WP 2004-22: Strategy and the Crystal Cycle

WP 2004-21: Understanding the "how to" of technological change in fast growing economies: The case of electronics in Taiwan

WP 2004-18: World Industrial Development in the 21st Century: Catch-up Strategies and the Latecomer Effect

2003

 "Fast follower" industrial dynamics in East Asia: The case of the Flat Panel Display industry MGSM Case Study 2003-5

 Strategizing by firms in the presence of markets for resources MGSM Working Paper 2003-16

 An evolutionary theory of the economy as a whole: Reflections on Schumpeter's "lost" seventh chapter to The Theory of Economic Development MGSM Working Paper 2003-15

Culturecom Hong Kong: Building an alternative to Wintel IT systems in Greater China  MGSM Case 2003-3

2002

Proteome Systems Ltd: A Macquarie Life Sciences Spinoff, MGSM Case 2002-2, Macquarie Graduate School of Management

2001

Taiwan’s Dragon Multinational: The Acer Group, MGSM Case 2001-3, Macquarie Graduate School of Management

Accelerated Internationalization from the Periphery, MGSM WP 2001-3 Working Paper, Macquarie Graduate School of Management

The birth of the biotechnology era: Penicillin in Australia, 1943-1980, MGSM Case 2001-2, Macquarie Graduate School of Management

The new face of entrepreneurship in Korea: ChemTech Research Inc, MGSM Case 2001-1, Macquarie Graduate School of Management

2000

The Competitiveness of Nations and Enterprises, ACT/EMP 26. Bureau for Employers’ Activities, International Labour Office, Switzerland.

Accelerated technology diffusion through collaboration: The case of Taiwan’s R&D consortia. Working Paper. European Institute of Japan Studies, Stockholm School of Economics

Accelerated internationalization from the periphery. Working Paper. Institute of International Business, Stockholm School of Economics.

Why there’s more to innovation than technical ingenuity, On-Line Opinion (based on article in Australian Financial Review)

Ten Things Queensland Must Do to Assure its Biotech Future, Brisbane Institute, Brisbane, August

Encouraging knowledge-intensive industries: What Australia can draw from the industrial upgrading experiences of Taiwan and Singapore.  Report to Australian Business Foundation, Sydney.

'The case for an Asian Monetary Fund,' JPRI Working Paper #55 San Diego, Japan Policy Research Institute, (with Linda Weiss)

'Rebuilding Asia's institutions for the 21st century: Final report to the Japan Ministry of Finance,' Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific, (principal author)

'Building institutional capacity in Asia', Working paper, Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific, University of Sydney (with Fred Argy)

The concept of the corporation in the 21st century. Working Paper 99-1, Carnegie-Bosch Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (with Charles Snow and Raymond Miles)

1999

'Fashioning a new Korean model out of the crisis,' JPRI Working Paper #46, Japan Policy Research Institute, University of California, San Diego; May 1998

'Building institutional capacity in Asia: Final report 1997-1998,' Research Institute for Asia and the Pacific, University of Sydney (principal author)

1998

'Organisational innovation on a global scale: The case of the Acer Group,' CCC Paper #070 (1997), Centre for Corporate Change, Australian Graduate School of Management, UNSW, pp. 58;

 

Articles on current issues

New Matilda

Energy: Raising cane New Matilda 9 August 2006

Postcard from Seoul

JM Bill and Hillary show 8 june06 NM

JM orange bellied parrot politics NM

JM Postcard from Paris NM

JM Why is petrol so expensive NM 101 Aug 06

New Matilda AWB revised

New Matilda Nuclear debate John Mathews july 4 06

Opinion Online

Fuelling our future Online opinion 9 Aug 2006

Why is petrol so expensive?

All the options under the sun

US Australia FTA: bitter pill for an appendage state

Why there's more to innovation than technical ingenuity

Others

The FTA: Pandering to Rome

 

Industry and Innovation

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In 1993, three scholars founded the Journal of Industry Studies, published by the IR Research centre at the University of NSW, Sydney. The three scholars were myself; Dr Linda Weiss of the Department of Government, University of Sydney; and Dr Patrizia Tiberi, of the Faculty of Economics and Banking Sciences at the University of Udine, Italy (and then a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney). The journal was founded to promote informed discussion of industry issues, drawing on the widest possible theoretical frames of reference, and wide empirical sources for study. The journal was supported in its initial years by foundation grants from Telecom Australia and from the National Australia Bank.

The journal was self-published through the UNSW research centre for the first years, appearing twice a year, and translating interesting articles from Italy and Europe more generally, and from the Asia-pacific, into English, as well as publishing original articles from scholars around the world. In 1997 the journal was acquired by the British journals publisher, Carfax Publishing Company, and its name was changed to Industry and Innovation. Dr Linda Weiss and Dr John Mathews carried forward as editors, joined for a brief period by Dr Wyn Grant, of the University of Warwick. The new journal was numbered consecutively with the old, and the first issue of Industry and Innovation appeared in June 1997, numbered Vol. 4, No. 1. Since then the publish has changed to Routledge, and then to Taylor and Francis, following mergers by the publishers involved –but the same Carfax team has been involved throughout.

In 2005, editorial responsibility for the journal was passed to a group at Copenhagen business school. The Editorials published at the time are here: I&I 11 4 2004 JM Farewell editorial and I&I Editorial 2005

* Schumpeter’s “lost” seventh chapter (Vol. 9, Nos. 1/2, April 2002)

This carried the first English translation of the seventh chapter of Joseph A. Schumpeter’s 1912 masterpiece, The Theory of Economic Development. The chapter, “The economy as a whole” was published by Schumpeter in the first edition, but dropped from the subsequent German editions; it never appeared in the English translation, published in 1934. The first full English translation is here: I&I Schumpeter's lost 7th chapter. An introduction to the special issue can be found here:  Introduction