Companies increasingly shift from hierarchical to team-based organizational structures. Scholars and practitioners … performance time-wise, but also team organization, without reducing the originality of solutions. Hence, leadership encouragements … can serve as a cost-effective tool to foster team performance. …

endogenous emergence of industry clusters. Spatial variations in knowledge spillovers lead to spatial concentration of more …. Narrowing the gap in knowledge spillovers across regions raises growth, and reduces regional inequality by making firms more …

We incorporate the now standard knowledge-capital model of multinational firms in a new economic geography setting. The …

This paper considers the effect of acquisition FDI on the knowledge production function. We distinguish between … complementarities in the knowledge assets of the MNE and the target firm as a reason for FDI. In contrast, consistent with technology … sourcing FDI, acquisitions from non-leading countries increase internal R&D efforts. -- MNE ; knowledge production function …

' access to new and better capital goods depends on the knowledge gap, i.e., the wedge between the firm's technical knowledge … knowledge diffusion subsequently leading to declining business dynamism. Our findings indicate that only when knowledge … markups, falling labor share and productivity growth. Patents are an important obstacle to knowledge diffusion. We find an …

This paper revisits the debate about the appropriate differential equation that governs the evolution of knowledge in … the evolution of knowledge is plausible if it satisfies two asymptotic conditions: Looking forwards, infinite knowledge in … finite time should be excluded, and looking backwards, knowledge should vanish towards the beginning of time (but not before …

While the output of a team is evident, the productivity of each team member is typically not readily identifiable. In … this paper we consider the problem of measuring the productivity of team members. We propose a new concept of coworker … matrix of a team, and illustrate the operational practicability of EVP by means of three examples representing different …

damage the work climate. We show that both team incentives and relative incentives can help to create a good work climate. We …