appropriation of knowledge and technologies by the members of the organization and in the production and the reproduction of the …

This paper uses a cognitive theory of firms and organizations, with a focus on learning and innovation.Here, cognition … collaboration between firms, for learning and innovation, in the combination of capabilities between rather than within the firm …

, are simultaneously resources and the result of strategies of change. The combination of knowledge and know-how is oriented …, information and knowledge, organisational and relational learning. …

The objective of data mining is the extraction of knowledge from databases. In practice, one often encounters … difficulties with models that are constructed purely by search, without incorporation of knowledge about the domain of application …

The assessment of knowledge derived from databases depends on many factors. Decision makers often need to convince … others about the correctness and effectiveness of knowledge induced from data.The current data mining techniques do not … contribute much to this process of persuasion.Part of this limitation can be removed by integrating knowledge from experts in the …

of those choices, namely, subunit interdependencies and knowledge transfer costs.We test our predictions with a …

This chapter explains and employs a constructivist, interactionist theory of knowledge that has come to be known as the … distance between firms for innovation by interaction. …