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The environment in the development of firms' innovative capacities: Argentine industrial SMEs from different local systems

Yoguel, Gabriel; Boscherini, Fabio - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2000

The new economic scenario increases the importance of the "innovative capacity" of the agents as crucial competitive instrument in order to attain the differentiating element required by the competitive process. Innovative capacity refers to the agents' capability to transform general knowledge...

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Austrian Economics and Game Theory a Preliminary Methodological Stocktaking

Foss, Nicolai J. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1998

This paper discusses, from the perspective of Austrian economics, the merits and drawbacks of game theory in economics …. It begins by arguing that Austrians have neglected game theory at their peril, and then argues that game theoretic … reasoning may be one way of modelling key Austrian insights, although some aspects of game theory doesn’t square easily with …

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Understanding Ownership Residual Rights of Control and Appropriable Control Rights

Foss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai J. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1999

enforcement costs. This holds the key to a theory of ownership that is not dependent on the notion of residual rights to control …

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Heterogeneous Capital, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Organization

Foss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai J.; Klein, Peter G.; … - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2002

directly to the theory of economic organization. In particular, we develop insights in economic organization based on the …

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Do Differences Make a Difference? The Impact of Human Capital Diversity, Experience and Compensation on Firm Performance in Engineering Consulting

Laursen, Keld; Mahnke, Volker; Vejrup-Hansen, Per - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2005

The paper investigates the relationship between human capital characteristics and firm performance in engineering consulting. Because general experience, firm-specific human capital and diversity carry specific costs and benefits we hypothesize curvilinear (taking inverted U-shapes) relations to...

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One Knowledge Base or Many Knowledge Pools?

Lundvall, Bengt-Åke - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006

It is increasingly realized that knowledge is the most important resource and that learning is the most important …

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The Academic Robotics Community in the UK Web based data construction and analysis of a distributed community of practice

Tomlinson, Mark - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2002

This paper explores a scientific community of mainly academic researchers within the discipline of robotics. Data are constructed wholly from web-based resources such as web pages, electronic CVs and bibliographic search engines to identify teams of people working together, career patterns, and...

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Knowledge Flows through Informal Contacts in Industrial Clusters Myths or Realities?

Dahl, Michael S.; Pedersen, Christian Ø.R. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2003

The role of informal networks in the development of regional clusters has received a lot of attention in the literature recently. Informal contact between employees in different firms is argued to be one of the main carriers of knowledge between firms in a cluster. This paper empirically...

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Intra and Inter-Organizational Knowledge Transfer Processes Identifying the Missing Links

Becker, Markus C.; Knudsen, Mette Præst - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006

Inspired by the resource- and knowledge-based views, much attention has been focused on knowledge transfer as a process of strategic importance. Still, many open questions regarding knowledge transfer processes need to be addressed to complete our understanding. For instance, what are the...

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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

separation between price theory and the economics of organization. For example, matters of production has been the domain of the …

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