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3. Silicon Valley: A Cradle of Management Innovation

verfasst von : Annika Steiber, Sverker Alänge

Erschienen in: The Silicon Valley Model

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Here we take a fresh look at Silicon Valley, exploring it as a hub of management innovation, not just new technology. The chapter focuses on the management of large and growing firms as opposed to startups. We see that new ways of managing have emerged in the Valley due to two main influences: the region’s leadership in information technologies—which both demand and enable rapid change—and the entrepreneurial culture of the region. The chapter also describes the high degrees of networking and collaboration in Silicon Valley, along with the companies’ intense “people focus,” which entails recruiting and managing entrepreneurial employees. A brief history of the Bay Area shows how new management approaches grew from new thinking that emerged over many years, from the California Gold Rush through the birth of Stanford University and the early electronics industry, to the modern growth of Silicon Valley.

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All of this will be documented with evidence and stories from expert sources including Homa Bahrami, Annalee Saxenian, Timothy Sturgeon and others.

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Excerpt from a speech by Bill Joy at the Churchill Club, Palo Alto, in 1990. Cited in sources such as Bahrami (1992), p. 6.

See Sturgeon’s chapter “How Silicon Valley Came to Be” in Kenney, ed. (2000), pp. 15–47. Sturgeon and Kenney, in turn, credit Norberg (1976).

For a concise summary of Intel’s rebound see Saxenian (1990).

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Ibid, p. 39.

Ibid, p. 34.

Bahrami and Evans (2005), p. 55.

There are varying estimates of the Native American population of California pre- and post-contact with Europeans, but most sources agree with the total range cited here for the years leading up to the Gold Rush. See for example PBS (2006).

Ibid and many other sources; see for example Starr (1973), pp. 69, 110–139 and elsewhere.

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For a concise account of the founding of Stanford University, see History of Stanford at https://www.stanford.edu/about/history/. Accessed 26 June 2015. For a detailed biography of Leland Stanford and his activities, see Tutorow (2004).

The following discussion is all from Timothy Sturgeon’s chapter in Kenney, ed. (2002), pp. 15–47.

Saxenian (1990).

Ibid, p. 103. (The Apple purchasing director quoted in this passage was Jim Bilodeau.)

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Rogers and Larsen (1984), p. 80.

Rubens et al. (2011) http://www.innovation-ecosystems.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2011.educon.pdf (Accessed 30 July 2015).

Steiber and Alänge (2013).

There are many accounts of the history of William Shockley and his company; see for example Shurkin (2006). Likewise many sources have told the stories of the so-called “traitorous eight” defectors from Shockley, who founded Fairchild Semiconductor, which then had important spinout firms. For a “family tree” chart of companies descended from Fairchild, see Business Week (1997).

See for example Matthews (2002), pp. 147–180 and elsewhere.

Florida (2002), pp. 88–91, 99.

Ibid.

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Saxenian (1990), p. 97. The company cofounder quoted here was Robert Walker of LSI Corporation.

Teece (2014).

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Titel: Silicon Valley: A Cradle of Management Innovation
verfasst von: Annika Steiber
Sverker Alänge
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: The Silicon Valley Model
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-24919-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-24921-6

Copyright-Jahr: 2016
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24921-6_3

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