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Eindhoven, and Uppsala University (Sweden). His research is focused on the role of suppliers in product innovation and has been …
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of knowledge management practices and organizational learning. Although in theory, they are distinct, the results of this …
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. Based on the literature on the economics of contracting and agency theory, we hypothesize that prior re-peat interaction …
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Online markets have dramatically decreased costs of search and communication for buyers. By contrast, costs of evaluating purchasing alternatives have become critical due to an overwhelming range of available options. When high, evaluation costs can offset potential gains from transactions and...
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This article provides empirical tests of the hypothesis of ‘optimal cognitive distance’, proposed by Nooteboom (1999, 2000), in two distinct empirical settings. Variety of cognition, needed for learning, has two dimensions: the number of agents with different cognition, and differences in...
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This article connects theory of learning with theory of governance, in the context of inter-firm relations. It … recognizes fundamental criticism of transaction cost economics (TCE), but preserves elements from that theory. Two kinds of …
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issue, using a theory of organisational learning. It employs a ‘cycle of discovery’ that seeks to resolve the problem of …
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In an attempt at a systematic theory of entrepreneurship, this paper connects various literatures, from economics and …
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This chapter offers a theory and method for the analysis of the dynamics, i.e. the development, of clusters for … innovation. It employs an analysis of three types of embedding: institutional embedding, which is often localized, structural …. It employs results from earlier research in organizational learning and innovation, and in the management of inter …
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