Recent work linking the adoption of key organizational practices to productivity raises an important question: if adoption increases productivity so dramatically, why does adoption across an industry take so long? This paper explores this question in the context of one particularly interesting...

Explores the geographic localization of knowledge spillover by comparing the location of inventors of citing patents to the location of the inventors of the patents they cite. The originating patents considered were from 1975 and 1980 and included all patents granted to U.S. universities and two...