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organization and accumulation of knowledge. -- Information processing ; Problem-solving ; Organizational structure …
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By including the effects of learning over time on both the production of components and their integration into complete products, we develop an engineering-based model of outsourcing. This model provides an alternative explanation for much of what other outsourcing theories predict, as well as...
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find market knowledge to be a multi-dimensional construct consisting of segment, product, application, and customer … knowledge. We illustrate how a project’s exploratory and exploitative market learning is balanced across market knowledge …
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A corporation's offshore outsourcing may be seen as the result of a discrete, strategic decision taken in response to an increasing pressure from worldwide competition. However, empirical evidence of a representative cross-sector sample of international Danish firms indicates that offshore...
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Markets for knowledge are increasingly important to innovation, competitive advantage, and economic growth. This paper … examines five distinct markets through which knowledge can be exchanged: the market for codified knowledge (licensing), the … market for tacit knowledge (alliances), the market for encapsulated knowledge (sale/purchase of sophisticated products), the …
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through the exchange of matter, energy, information and knowledge. The optimal allocation of resources cannot be left to the … itself in a position of internal auditor, recognizing that the creation of knowledge also comes through cooperative behavior …. Businesses, therefore, being able to encode and transfer knowledge to suppliers, become organizations that facilitate the …
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We propose a model of learning when experimentation is possible, but unawareness and ambiguity matter. In this model, complete lack of information regarding the underlying data generating process is expressed as a (maximal) family of priors. These priors yield posterior inferences that become...
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In this paper I propose a novel abstract mechanism for the creation and diffusion of knowledge and use an agent based … explain and the stocks of knowledge available in a society, be it individually or collectively. I find that the aggregate … number of knowledge units in a society increases more slowly, the more naive its inhabitants are. I also find that the …
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