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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 …
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stakeholders and their actor games, the use of concepts, the creation of collective knowledge and, the prescription printed in the …
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In this paper, we propose a method to locate the company's crucial knowledge for improving the quality of decision … automotive company for identifying the crucial knowledge, aiming at choosing and justifying the necessary investment to … capitalize on the knowledge. This method will then be used as basis for a dialogue between the stakeholders involved in the …
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As influential as Michel Foucault may be in organization theory, several critics have seriously questioned the epistemological foundations of the Foucauldian philosophical project (Ackroyd and Thompson, 1995, 1999; Caldwell, 2007; Habermas, 1990; Newton, 1994, 1998; Reed, 2000; Thompson, 1993). If these remain...
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Knowledge is increasingly playing a key role in achieving organizational success in modern organizations notably in … leveraging core business competencies, accelerating innovation and time to market, improving cycle times and decision making … knowledge in modern organizations, knowledge management has emerged as a scientific discipline. Nevertheless, the dominant view …
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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 …
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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 …
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of those choices, namely, subunit interdependencies and knowledge transfer costs.We test our predictions with a …
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This paper gives a survey of insights into inter-firm alliances and networks for innovation, from a constructivist …, interactionist perspective on knowledge, which leads to the notion of 'cognitive distance'.It looks at both the competence and the … myopia that, for the sake of innovation, needs to be complemented by means of outside relations with other firms, at larger …
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This paper considers the financing of a research project under uncertainty about the time of completion and the probability of eventual success.The uncertainty about future success gradually diminishes with the arrival of additional funding.The entrepreneur controls the funds and can divert...
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