Technology Analysis and Strategic Management · 1995 · 13 citations · 13 references
ManagementStrategic ManagementStrategyIndustrial OrganizationStrategic PlanningTechnology PolicyIndustrial PolicyInnovation NetworksOil EconomicsOrganizational StrategyTechnology GovernanceTransnational CorporationsGas IndustryIndustry NetworksOil IndustryPolicy Framework DesignProduction Networks GovernanceStrategic Expansion PlanningTechnological Organization Of ProductionTransnational Policy Networks
In the course of the last 25 years the UK has seen the emergence of a new, technologically advanced network of organisations underpinning the technical needs of the oil and gas extraction industry.The euolution of this industy network has taken place within a public policy framework which has had too central objectives: to maximize UK industrial involvement in the industry and to maximize. North Sea oil and gas extraction. The extent to which this framework has encouraged the development of new, technology-based firms has not been systematical stuided. This study examines the extent of indigenous incoltlement in the network and the influence of the currrent pressures of economic and policy changes on the performance and strategic planning of these compnies.
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