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The Flexible Company Innovation, Work Organisation and Human Ressource Management
Lund, Reinhard; Gjerding, Allan Næs - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1996
organisational innovation to a larger extent than the less flexible firms and consequently are more inclined to employ new work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627352
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Organisational Innovation in the Danish Private Business Sector
Gjerding, Allan Næs - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1996
This paper reviews the first results from a large Danish survey on organisational innovation within the private … have undertaken organisational innovation during the period of 1993-95, i.e. innovative Y-firms and non-innovative N … flexibility and combine technical and organisational innovation in order to meet this challenge. However, 1/3 of the N …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627373
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Capabilities, Confusion, and the Costs of Coordination On Some Problems in Recent Research On Inter-Firm Relations
Foss, Nicolai J. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1999
The arguably dominant approaches to the study of interfirm relations are the capabilities and organizational economics perspectives. This paper discusses their merits and weaknesses, concentrating on the capabilities perspective, which is argued to rest on rather weak foundations, particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005169040
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Lead Users as Facilitators of Knowledge Sharing in Community Setting
Jeppesen, Lars Bo; Laursen, Keld - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2007
This paper introduces a model of knowledge sharing of lead users located in a public and unrestricted community of users. While existing literature on knowledge sharing focuses on allocation and collaboration processes inside or among companies we extend this to the community level. We then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839229
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Capabilities and the Theory of the Firm
Foss, Nicolai J. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1996
The recent decade has witnessed a strong expansion of work on the firm, both from a capabilities perspective and from a contractual perspective. These two bodies of theories are often thought to be fundamentally different, because their domains of applications are different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005839212
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Capabilities and Governance the Rebirth of Production in the Theory of Economic Organization
Langlois, Richard N.; Foss, Nicolai J. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1997
We argue that since Coase’s seminal 1937 paper on “The Nature of the Firm,” there has been an odd and unjustified separation between price theory and the economics of organization. For example, matters of production has been the domain of the former exclusively. However, a new approach to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627341
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Organizing Economic Experiments The Role of Firms
Foss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai J. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1999
Many economists, including Austrian economists, have argued that the market process is essentially an experimental process. We briefly try to clarify this conceptualization, and then argue that we may understand the firm in much the same light. A basic view of the firm as an experimental entity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005627351
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Clusters and Knowledge Local Buzz, Global Pipelines and the Process of Knowledge Creation
Bathelt, Harald; Malmberg, Andersand; Maskell, Peter - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2002
The paper is concerned with spatial clustering of economic activity and its relation to the spatiality of knowledge creation in various sorts of interactive learning processes. It questions the merit of the prevailing explanatory model where the realm of tacit knowledge transfer is confined to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005273133
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How Journal Rankings can suppress Interdisciplinary Research – A Comparison between Innovation Studies and Business & Management
Rafols, Ismael; Leydesdorff, Loet; O'Hare, Alice; … - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2011
performance of innovation studies units with business and management schools in the UK. Using various mappings and metrics, this … study shows that: (i) innovation studies units are consistently more interdisciplinary than business and management schools …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353890
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Outsourcing, Delocalization and Firm Organization: Transaction Costs vs. Industrial Relations in a Local Production System of Emilia-Romagna
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montresor, Sandro; Pini, Paolo - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2008
The paper aims at investigating how far transaction costs economics (TCE) concurs in the explanation of outsourcing decisions in firms characterized by “thick’ industrial relations, that is where unions and employees are involved in, and are sometimes able to affect, the relative managerial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587583