This paper discusses the problems of social dilemmas arising if intangible firmspecific pool resources have to be supplied. The problem is not treated adequately in the dominant theories of the firm, transaction cost economics and the knowledge-based theory.(...)

Open source is a term for software published under licence that does not give any property rights to the developers. Recently, attempts have been made to explain open source as the result of the collaboration of purely self-interested, utility-maximizingindividuals.(...)

Vorliegender Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit dem Verhältnis von Alltagstheorien des Managements und den Praktiken der theoretischen Forschung.

Netzwerke sind zum Inbegriff flexibler und wettbewerbsfähiger Organisationsformen geworden.(...) Um Netzwerke handelt es sich nur dann, wenn die Zusammenarbeit der Netzwerkunternehmen zu Ressourceninterdependenzen führt.(...)

Today, there is a growing conviction among researchers and practitioners that knowledge creation is the most important source of dynamic capabilities...

The most influential theory of corporate governance, principal agency theory, does not take into consideration that the key task of modern corporations is to generate and transfer firm-specificknowledge.