Research highlights the role of external knowledge sources in the recognition of strategic opportunities, but is less … knowledge-based view to propose that realizing opportunities often involves significant interactions with external knowledge … shows that the use of external knowledge sources is positively associated with opportunity exploitation, but the strength of …

hierarchy is dead. In this article, we review our critical discussion of this genre in our book, Why Managers Still Matter … importance of contingencies such as the characteristics of knowledge for organization design …

The notion of distributed knowledge is increasingly often invoked in discussions of economic organization. In … particular, the claim that authority is inefficient as a means of coordination in the context of distributed knowledge has become … knowledge. In this paper, we concentrate on the role of authority as a coordination mechanism under conditions of distributed …