Ba, Sulin; Stallaert, Jan; Whinston, Andrew B. - In: Management Science 47 (2001) 9, pp. 1203-1219
organization's internal knowledge investment. Knowledge goods have two distinct characteristics. First, knowledge within an … organization can be considered a public good, so it is subject to the free-rider problem. Second, knowledge is interrelated and … interdependent; that is, there is complementarity among knowledge components. The value of knowledge often derives from a bundle of …