Silicon Valley

Annika Steiber ()
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Annika Steiber: Menlo College

Chapter 2 in Leadership for a Digital World, 2022, pp 17-23 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Often seen as a center of technology innovation, the San Francisco Bay Area (which includes Silicon Valley) has also been a center of management innovation, and this chapter explains why. Openness to new forms of organization and management was partly a result of the region’s history. The California Gold Rush of the 1800s quickly turned San Francisco from a wilderness outpost to a growing metropolis, so that the waves of people coming into the area had to improvise new ways of working together to build what they needed. The birth of the electronics industry in the 1900s then amplified this need. From the industry’s earliest days, companies saw that they could not simply keep producing the same products, because the technology changed too rapidly. Therefore, these accumulating forces led to the development of an entrepreneurial, flexible new management approach called the Silicon Valley Model.

Keywords: Management innovation; San Francisco; Electronics industry; Silicon Valley; Silicon Valley model; Entrepreneurial management; Machine bureaucracy; Facebook; Federal telegraph; Google; HP; Magnavox; Tesla (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-95754-4_2

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