Methodological individualism is the doctrine that economic or social phenomena are ultimately grounded in individual knowing and choice. Recently numerous collective concepts have been introduced into our thinking about the firm - absorptive capacity, communities of practice, dynamic...

Organizations that succeed in the Information Age/Age of Internet and Globalization will have to be innovative and adapt quickly to changing market conditions. Approaches that worked in the past no longer work when competition can come from anywhere in the world and any industry. This paper...

A knowledge-based economy can be defined as the economy that has the capability of effectively producing, sharing, disseminating and utilizing knowledge for sustainable economic development. In the current digital age, knowledge is a key factor in economic growth, creation of wealth,...

Introduction -- Knowledge and learning -- Creating knowledge : transfer, exchange and gifts -- Development of economic knowledge : paradigms & new ideas -- Knowledge exchange in networks : within-firm analysis -- Knowledge exchange between firms : economic geography of high-tech firms -- The...