Discussion papers (SOL)
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Managerial authority when knowledge is distributed : a knowledge governance perspective
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-01)A critical knowledge governance problems concern the consequences the use of the governance mechanism of authority if the knowledge that is essential in a work setting is partially unknown to the person who is to ... -
Exploring the contributions of human and social capital to productivity
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-10)This paper investigates how human and social capital contribute to individual productivity. We study three firms that complete all their tasks in projects. The employees in all firms initiate and organize their projects. ... -
Building micro-foundations for the routines, capabilities, and performance links
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-06)Micro-foundations have become an important emerging theme in strategic management. This paper addresses micro-foundations in two related ways. First, we argue that the kind of macro (or “collectivist”) explanation that ... -
Why there? a decomposition of the choice of target industry
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008)This paper provides a quantitative quantitative characterization of how diversifying firms chose target industry, with an emphasis on target market and resource-/capability characteristics. We seek to improve on the ... -
Understanding opportunity discovery and sustainable advantage : the role of transaction costs and property rights
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-07)To add insight in new value creation, opportunity discovery should be integrated with strategic management theory. Based on the resource-based view and the economics of property rights we build a framework that ... -
Governing knowledge sharing in organisations : levels of analysis, mechanisms, and research directions
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2008-07)We discuss and test recent claims that research on knowledge processes has paid insufficient attention to micro (individual) level constructs and mechanisms and to the role of formal organisation in governing knowledge ... -
Opportunities and new business models : transaction cost and property rights perspectives on entrepreneurship
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Diversification, industry structure, and firm strategy : an organizational economics perspective
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Understanding the integrated approach to conflict management
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-07)The purpose of this paper is to examine the integrative approach to conflicts. Integration is an active search for information about facts and interests - motivated by a willingness to find mutually satisfactory ... -
Strategic belief management
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007-04)While (managerial) beliefs are central to many aspects of strategic organization, interactive beliefs have been rather neglected. In an increasingly connected and networked economy, firms confront coordination problems ... -
Managing social interaction as a key to organizational decision making : from problem solving to sensemaking and design
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2007)It is argued that the design of decisions is a process that in many ways is shaped by social factors such as identities, values, and influences. To be able to understand how these factors impact on organizational ... -
Experience and repetition as antecedents of organizational routines and capabilities : a critique of behaviorist and empiricist approaches
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-11)We discuss the behaviorist and empiricist foundations of the organizational routines and capabilities literature, specifically the extant emphasis placed on experience, repetition and observation as the key inputs and ... -
Ownership and competitive dynamics
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-05)Changes in ownership titles are essential to understanding crucial aspects of competitive dynamics and, more broadly, the market process. There is ample evidence that a crucial source of productivity growth, and hence ... -
The unit of analysis in entrepreneurship research : opportunities or investments?
(Discussion paper, Doctoral thesis, 2008-10)The entrepeneurship literature in management focuses increasingly on opportunities — their creation or discovery, evaluation, and exploitation — as the unit of analysis. We argue first, that the opportunity perspective ... -
A knowledge system approach to the multinational company : conceptual grounding and implications for research
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-10)The role of knowledge, organizational learning, and innovation as levers of competitive advantage is now a commonly acknowledged insight in research in international management. However, while the agglomeration of ... -
Alternative research strategies in the knowledge movement : from macro bias to micro-foundations and multi-level explanation
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009-01)The emergence over the last two decades or so of “knowledge” as an important part of the explanatory structure of management research is an intellectual breakthrough that is comparable in terms of its transforming ... -
Entrepreneurial alertness and opportunity discovery : origins, attribute, critique
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The determinants of industry concentration : two new empirical regularities
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2009)This paper reports two new empirical regularities relating to industry concentration. First, concentration levels closely correlate in related industries. Second, the correlation is moderated by the degree of relatedness ... -
Original and derived judgment : an entrepreneurial theory of economic organization
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2006-07)Recent work links entrepreneurship to the economic theory of firm using the Knightian concept of entrepreneurship as judgment. When judgment is complementary to other assets, and these assets or their services are traded ... -
Knowing me, knowing you : own orientation and information about the
(Discussion paper, Working paper, 2003-04)The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of motivational orientations on negotiation outcomes in unstable negotiation contexts. Instability was created by pitting individualists against cooperators (mixed ...
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