Im Zuge eines fortschreitenden Wandels von der Industriegesellschaft zur Informations- und Wissensgesellschaft stellt sich die Frage, wie die Ressource Wissen in Organisationen als Produktionsfaktor entwickelt und eingesetzt werden kann. Das Lehrbuch behandelt - gemä ︢dem Konzept eines...

Im Zuge eines fortschreitenden Wandels von der Industriegesellschaft zur Informations- und Wissensgesellschaft stellt sich die Frage, wie die Ressource Wissen in Organisationen als Produktionsfaktor entwickelt und eingesetzt werden kann. Das Lehrbuch behandelt – gemäß dem Konzept eines...

The City of Yokohama offers useful lessons for other cities seeking to achieve sustainable urban development. It simultaneously managed rapid economic growth and a sharp rise in population through a series of thoughtfully conceived and well" integrated development projects and regulative...

Access to finance is an essential component of economic development and job creation. A host of studies have shown a positive correlation between financial development and economic growth. Access to finance is also critical for larger corporations and conglomerates, which, given their size,...

This document presents an incentive framework aiming to improve knowledge sharing (KS) and reusing behaviors at the World Bank. Given the nature of the Bank's work, evidence suggests that effective and efficient knowledge sharing might be the biggest predictor of success. To approach KS in a...

The transition to a more innovation-based growth model is even more urgent in the current uncertain global context[1]. While the GDP growth rate has proven resilient in recent years, declining oil and gas output, coupled with economic shocks, including the recent COVID-19 pandemic, havedented...

What prevents the spread of information among coworkers, and which management practices facilitate workplace knowledge flows? We conducted a field experiment in a sales company, addressing these questions with three active treatments. (1) Encouraging workers to talk about their sales techniques...

How large are spatial barriers to transferring knowledge? We analyze the international operations of multinational firms to answer this fundamental question. In our model firms can transfer bits of knowledge to their foreign affiliates in either embodied (traded intermediates) or disembodied...

Over the past two decades there has been a substantial increase in the mobility of students in Europe, while also research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document changes in the structure of research and higher education in Europe and investigate potential...