The problem: flying blind -- Misconception 1: small companies are more innovative -- Misconception 2: uncontested markets are good for innovation -- Misconception 3: spending more on R&D increases innovation -- Misconception 4: companies need more radical innovation -- Misconception 5: open...

Absorptive capacity is the principle that assimilating new knowledge requires prior knowledge. The attendant prescription is to invest more in R& D to derive greater benefit from the R& D of others (spillovers). Empirical tests of R& D productivity typically find absorptive capacity (R& D *...

This study develops a dual-routines view of the dynamic value of hierarchy, and tests it against the implicit null hypothesis that hierarchy merely provides static advantages over markets. The view holds that hierarchical managers perform two roles that create value for firms in perpetuity---an...

This paper attempts to reconcile the risk-bearing characterization of entrepreneurs with the stylized fact that entrepreneurs exhibit conventional risk-aversion profiles. We propose that the disparity arises from confounding two distinct dimensions of uncertainty: demand uncertainty and ability...