The Silicon Valley Model Management for Entrepreneurship

The first edition of The Silicon Valley Model, published in 2016, addresses the need for a fundamentally new approach to managing and developing large firms with an emphasis on entrepreneurship. This second edition validates, extends, and updates these original findings. While still encompassing the observations and analysis featured in the first edition, this new edition addresses new developments in management and in the global business environment. Further, it presents Dr. Steiber’s research identifying more companies in Asia, Europe, and the USA that are implementing management approaches that parallels the Silicon Valley Model, and in some respects, advanced upon it. 

New material, appearing mainly in the “Recent Developments” sections in each chapter, includes both real-life events and new research findings related to the management principles for entrepreneurship. In some cases, elements of innovation and development of the Silicon Valley Model have taken new forms in response to changing times or the desires of the companies involved. The Silicon Valley Model, Second Edition is beneficial to executives from the board and CEO level on down, consultants, researchers, and others who study or work with new developments in management.

Dr. Annika Steiber is a Researcher, Lecturer and Advisor in Business Management and Innovation Management. She is a Professor and the CEO of Management Insights (Menlo Park, CA, USA) and has for decades conducted research on management for the digital age, as well as worked as an entrepreneurial executive in the tech sector. Dr. Steiber is the author of several award-winning articles and books, including The Google Model (Springer, 2014), The Silicon Valley Model (Springer, 2016), Management for the Digital Age (Springer, 2018) and Leadership for the Digital Age (Springer, 2022). 

Dr. Sverker Alänge is a retired Professor from the Department of Technology Management and Economics at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. He has a Ph.D. in Industrial Management and an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Alänge has been conducting pioneering research and development programs in various parts of the world. His research interests include innovation and change processes in firms and innovation systems, entrepreneurship, and sustainable business development. Dr. Alänge has written articles and books in many areas such as organizational agility, innovation, leadership, entrepreneurship, corporate-startup collaborations, and evaluation of such collaborations.