This paper reviews the Hotelling literature of product differentiation. The purpose of this work is to examine the impact of the market structure on price competitionand equilibrium differentiation. The existence of a general ’principle of differentiation’ is rejected. In contrast,...

We report on a research program that employs the indirect evolutionary approach to analyze how the institutional environment drives the evolution of trust and trustworthiness through the evolution of moral preferences, and how in turn the evolution of preferences shapes the evolution of the...

Our main question in this paper is: Which motivational and structural prerequisites supports knowledge management? We will develop a theoretical model to answer these questions and illustrate it with three case studies.

In this paper the authors will explore the concepts of organisational knowledge and intelligence from the perspective of new systems theory.

This paper deals with the coordination mechanismus for R&D and innovation concering transnational corporations.

This paper deals with the organisational theory, and from this it developes conclusions for the design, and possible organisational applications, of Distributed AI systems.

In this article we attempt to provide some reorientation for theuse of the concept of knowledge within management studies. The point ofdeparture is the striking discrepancy between the great importance nowadaysattributed to knowledge (knowledge economy, knowledge resources,knowledge societies,...