Begriffe wie Informations-, Wissens-und Dienstleistungsgesellschaft prägen das Bild heutiger Volkswirtschaften. Der Dienstleistungssektor hat weltweit stark steigende Zuwachsraten und drängt den klassischen Industriesektor immer stärker in den Hintergrund, die zunehmende Auseinandersetzung...

Will an enterprise in the information age be able to afford to remain just an ordinary firm? Breathtaking progress in the fields of telecommunications and the ur-gency to concentrate on core competencies are revolutionising the company form of output production.(...) [Hans A. Wüthrich, Andreas...

This paper extends the standard Hotelling model with quadratic transport costs to the multi-firm case. Considering locational equilibria we show that neither holds the Principle of Maximum Differentiation - as in the duopoly model - nor does the Principle of Minimum Differentiation - as in the...

The Leicester Business School Occasional Papers reflect the scholarship and research of staff, postgraduates and others associated with the school. Many of the papers take the form of preliminary reports of research in progress or explorations of theoretical ideas. Publication of such work in...

In this paper, we open up the black box that has been the introduction of open practices into firms’ commercial R&D strategies. Most of the existing research on the phenomenon of open innovation focuses on its interorganizational aspects. In contrast, the effect that the opening of boundaries...

This paper uses confidential microdata from the Census of Services to examine lawfirms' field boundaries. We find that the share of lawyers working in field-specializedfirms increases as market size increases and lawyers field-specialize, indicating thattransaction costs among lawyers, and not...

An organization will often use a specialized technical language that is un-derstood by its members but not by others. We develop a theory of optimalorganizational languages and identify a key trade-o¤ between facilitatinginternal communication and encouraging communication with other...