We consider the problem of bargaining over the disclosure of interim research knowledge, between two participants in a R & D race or contest, for an ultimate, patentable invention. Licensing fee schedules, as functions of the "amount of knowledge" disclosed by the leading to the lagging agent,...

We develop a theory of control rights in the context of licensing interim innovative knowledge for further development, which is consistent with the inalienability of initial innovator’s intellectual property rights. Control rights of a downstream development unit, a buyer of the interim...

In this paper, the authors contrast panics and information-based bank runs in an effort to provide a robust and empirically plausib le model of how bank runs are triggered. The model of information-bas ed runs is characterized by two-sided asymmetric information: the ban k cannot observe the...

We examine the optimal design of two-stage research and development (R&D) joint ventures. At the second stage, researchers choose R&D effort levels independently in an attempt to achieve an innovation. In the first stage, researchers have an opportunity to share endowments of productive...

Key Features:The unique format of this volume is the inclusion of reprinted articles followed by critical essays commissioned especially for the volumeProvides a comprehensive review of important topics, and updates and extends the contribution of the reprinted articles while offering directions...

Appreciative inquiry : unleashing a positive revolution of organizational change and development / Tanusree Chakraborty, Rajalakshmi School of Business, India, Nandita Mishra, Chetana's Institute of Management & Research, India -- Internal marketing and psychological ownership / Jyoti Kukreja,...