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Author:   Nicolai J. Foss
Publisher:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint:   Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
ISBN:  

9781847208217

ISBN 10:   1847208215
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   27 February 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Contents: Introduction PART I: KNOWLEDGE AND MICRO-FOUNDATIONS 1. Knowledge-based Approaches to the Theory of the Firm: Some Critical Comments 2. Bounded Rationality and Tacit Knowledge in the Organizational Capabilities Approach: An Assessment and a Re-evaluation 3. Strategic Organization: A Field in Search of Micro-foundations 4. The Rhetorical Dimensions of Bounded Rationality: Herbert A. Simon and Organizational Economics 5. Transferring Knowledge in MNCs: The Role of Sources of Subsidiary Knowledge and Organizational Context 6. The Use of Knowledge in Firms 7. Theoretical Isolation in Contract Theory: Suppressing Margins and Entrepreneurship 8. The Emerging Knowledge Governance Approach: Challenges and Characteristics PART II: ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION 9. Coase vs Hayek: Economic Organization and the Knowledge Economy 10. Selective Intervention and Internal Hybrids: Interpreting and Learning from the Rise and Decline of the Oticon Spaghetti Organization 11. `Tying the Manager's Hands': Constraining Opportunistic Managerial Intervention' 12. Performance Pay, Delegation and Multitasking under Uncertainty and Innovativeness: An Empirical Investigation PART III: PROPERTY RIGHTS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP 13. Assets, Attributes and Ownership 14. Resources and Transaction Costs: How Property Rights and Economics Furthers the Resource-based View 15. Original and Derived Judgment: An Entrepreneurial Theory of Economic Organization 16. Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurial Activity: Some Cross-country Evidence Index

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'Nicolai J. Foss is without doubt one of the leading business economists in Europe and beyond. However, his writings have been published in many different journals. It is therefore wonderful to have his work collected in one book. A valuable contribution indeed.' -- Bruno S. Frey, University of Zurich, Switzerland

'Nicolai J. Foss is without doubt one of the leading business economists in Europe and beyond. However, his writings have been published in many different journals. It is therefore wonderful to have his work collected in one book. A valuable contribution indeed.'- Bruno S. Frey, University of Zurich, Switzerland

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Nicolai J. Foss, Professor of Strategy and Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Norway

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