Based on diverse research methods, we trace and map industrial economics research in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the periode of 1880 to 1908. After describing this research in terms of key contributors, we argue that industrial economics developed rather unevenly in the Scandinavian countries....

In this paper we construct a model in which entrepreneurial innovations are sold into oligopolistic industries and where adverse selection problems between entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and incumbents are present. We show that as exacerbated development by better-informed venture-backed...

In this paper it is argued that the terms, knowledge work, knowledge workers, and <p> knowledge intensive firms point to emerging social structures and processes in <p> organisations. This focus allows us to analyse organisations in ways that differ <p> from the notions involving less dynamic forms of...</p></p></p>

(VF)La littérature en management indique que les organisations sont susceptibles d’apprendre de leurs propres expériences et de celles de leurs concurrents. On parle dans ce dernier cas d’apprentissage vicariant. Dans cet article, nous étudions dans quelle mesure les organisations tirent...

The paper explores the impact of entrepreneurial management dimensions on post-MBO financial performance. We use Stevenson’s conceptualization of entrepreneurship (1983), empirically validated by Brown, Davidsson and Wiklund (2001), positing that entrepreneurial companies will be involved in...

The present paper examines firm size effects on the decision of venture capital firms to participate in a venture capital investment syndication network. The authors submit that firm size effects in venture capital syndication are dependent on resource acquisition motives and transaction cost...

We present a model to test the null hypothesis that firms organize their corporate governancearrangements optimally given the constraints they face. Following the literature, the modelrejects the null if the conditional correlation between governance and performance issignificantly different...