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distance between firms for innovation by interaction. …
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This paper uses a cognitive theory of firms and organizations, with a focus on learning and innovation.Here, cognition … collaboration between firms, for learning and innovation, in the combination of capabilities between rather than within the firm … between that cognitive theory and Penrose's theory of the growth of the firm.As in Penrose's work, the focus is on learning …
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Using insights from 'embodied cognition' and a resulting 'cognitive theory of the firm', I aim to contribute to the further development of evolutionary theory of organizations, in the specification of organizations as 'interactors' that carry organizational competencies as 'replicators', within...
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This paper offers a meta-theory concerning the relation between the general and the specific in science. This issue was recently called back to attention by Hodgson (2001). A heuristic of discovery, developed in earlier work (Nooteboom 1992, 1996, 1999b, 2000a), is used in an attempt to...
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rationality, the efficiency of outcomes, trust, innovation, learning and the nature of knowledge. The competence view yields an …
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.In this way, institutions may co-evolve with innovation. …
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Trust is full of puzzle and paradox.Trust is both rational and emotional. Trust can go beyond calculative self-interest, but has its limits.People may want to trust, while they may also feel threatened by it.If trust is not in place prior to a relationship, on the basis of institutions, prior...
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This article connects theory of learning with theory of governance, in the context of inter-firm relations …
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