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We explore the link between a firm's organization of research - specifically, its choice to operate a centralized or decentralized R&D structure - and the type of innovation it produces. We propose that by reducing the internal transaction costs associated with R&D coordination across units,...
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We investigate the optimal shape of organizations to reduce embezzlement. In a stylized synthesis of a common pool resource and ultimatum game, agents move sequentially along an organizational architecture, can take a share of the available resources, and can choose to "blow the whistle", an...
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coordination failure when two groups with diverging precedents have to interact. This paper describes an experiment to explore how …
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increase has been in areas associated with knowledge. But what is the “knowledge economy”? This is the topic of this chapter …, because without knowledge of this, levering intellectual capital will be very difficult …
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Prevailing views about what constitutes organisational knowledge need to be systematically evaluated at deep … foundation for thinking about knowledge epistemologies. We think, along with Bill McKelvey, (1997, 2002) that the “science of … knowledge contained within Karl Popper’s later epistemological works beginning with his 1972 “Objective Knowledge – an …
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Recently, Nature published an article comparing the quality of Wikipedia articles to those of Encyclopedia Britannica (Giles 2005). The article, which gained much public attention, provides evidence for Wikipedia quality, but does not provide an explanation of the underlying source of that...
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This chapter describes methods for systematically studying knowledge commons as an institutional mode of governance of … knowledge and information resources, including references to adjacent but distinct approaches to research that looks primarily … to the role(s) of intellectual property systems in institutional contexts concerning innovation and creativity. Knowledge …
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If knowledge management is to be more than an art, it needs to be based on a sound epistemology and understanding of … organizations. We present a paradigm and an ontology of organizational knowledge based on Karl Popper’s 1972 and later works on … theoretical argument by providing examples of how several different types of knowledge created by people within organizations …
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