New knowledge with potential commercial value is created, replicated, and transferred in adistributed manner. The highly systemic nature of knowledge production and the need for anyknowledge to be individually acquired and expressed in order to produce an effect, jointlyconstrain the dynamics of...

This paper builds on previous work within the conceptual framework of a generalizedDarwinism that clarifies such concepts as selection and replication. One of its aims is to refinethe concept of the interactor. An overview of the conditions under which group selection mayoccur helps us identify...

Few industries are more concentrated than the global fashion industry. We analyse thegeography and evolution of the ready-to-wear fashion design industry by looking at the yearlyentry rates following an organizational ecology approach. In contrast to earlier studies onmanufacturing industries,...

Despite their pervasiveness and significance in everyday organisational life, meetings have received comparatively little serious academic attention as organisational phenomena. This paper argues that studying meetings as strategizing episodes can add to our understanding of the social dynamics...

This paper explores and explains the emergence and growth of new firms in the knowledgeeconomy. The resource-based view, capabilities approach, and evolutionary economics are usedas a foundation for a developmental approach. The development of the firm is conceptualized interms of processes that...

Neben dem Barcode etabliert sich zunehmend dieRFID-Technologie zur Identifikation von Objektenaller Art. Die eindeutige Identifizierung in Verbindungmit der Möglichkeit, zusätzliche mit demObjekt verknüpfte Informationen an jedem Ort undzu jeder Zeit verfügbar zu machen, hat bereits heutezu...

Common sense suggests that organisations should learn from their successesand failures. Surely a project that turns out to be a great organisational successshould provide useful information that increases the chances of future successes.Similarly it might be imagined that a venture that turns...

Ludewig and Sadowski (2009) empirically examine the economic value of organizationalcapital. They use a comprehensive panel data set from the Institute for EmploymentResearch (IAB) that provides standard information about inputs and outputs of theproduction process of German corporate...

Die IT ist noch weit weg vom Business. CIOs müssen sich verstärkt externen Wettbewerbern stellen. Was kann helfen? Sieben Leitgedanken und sechs Thesen als ...

Outsourcing senkt die Kostenund verbessert die Qualitätder erbrachten Leistungen – solauten jedenfalls die Standardargumentefür die Auslagerung anexterne Dienstleister. Aber wiesieht es in der Praxis aus?Werdendiese Versprechen tatsächlich eingelöst?Studien zum Thema Outsourcingkommen zu...