Imperial Germany can be considered the cradle of high-technology industry. This review of organizational innovations in Germany's early 'high-tech' industries, electricity and organic chemicals in the late nineteenth century, as well as in two modern German high-tech sectors, computing and...

Resource- and capability-based models of firm strategy gain in analytical power by incorporating some of the organizational trade-offs that firms face in choosing between alternative capability building strategies. Based on the well-documented trade-off between flexibility and commitment...