Systems Integrators as “ post - industrial ” firms ?
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*This is the first draft of the paper that will be the basis of the Welcome Lecture (What are advances in knowledge doing to the large industrial firm in the new economy?) on 6 June, 2002, at the DRUID Summer Conference on Industrial Dynamics of the New and Old Economy – who embraces whom?. It will subsequently be expanded into a joint paper with Nick von Tunzelmann. Comments welcome.
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