Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology
How should we understand why firms exist? A prevailing view has been that they serve to keep in check the transaction costs arising from the self-interested motivations of individuals. We develop in…
Knowledge of the firm and the evolutionary theory of the multinational corporation
Firms are social communities that specialize in the creation and internal transfer of knowledge. The multinational corporation arises not out of the failure of markets for the buying and selling of…
Knowledge and the Speed of the Transfer and Imitation of Organizational Capabilities: An Empirical Test
The capabilities of a firm, or any organization, lie primarily in the organizing principles by which individual and functional expertise is structured, coordinated, and communicated. Firms are social…
What Firms Do? Coordination, Identity, and Learning
Firms are organizations that represent social knowledge of coordination and learning. But why should their boundaries demarcate quantitative shifts in the knowledge and capability of their members?…
Evaluating research: A multidisciplinary approach to assessing research practice and quality
- Pär Mårtensson, U. Fors, Sven-Bertil Wallin, U. Zander, G. Nilsson
- Business
- 1 April 2016
The Inside Track: On the Important (But Neglected) Role of Customers in the Resource - Based View of Strategy and Firm Growth
This paper argues for the important role of customers as a source of competitive advantage and firm growth, an issue which has been largely neglected in the resource-based view of the firm. It…
Knowledge of the Firm and the Evolutionary Theory of the Multinational Corporation
Firms are social communities that specialize in the creation and internal transfer of knowledge. The multinational corporation arises not out of the failure of markets for the buying and selling of…
Exploiting a technical edge : voluntary and involuntary dissemination of technology
- U. Zander
- Business
- 1991
Managing Knowledge in the Dark: An Empirical Study of the Reliability of Capability Evaluations
- Jerker Denrell, Niklas Arvidsson, U. Zander
- BusinessManagement Sciences
- 1 November 2004
An in-depth empirical study of capabilities central to knowledge management efforts in large leading multinational companies shows that evaluation of these capabilities is a complex task.
Did socialism fail to innovate? A natural experiment of the two Zeiss companies
Two Carl Zeiss companies provide a natural experiment for analyzing the effects of socialist versus market systems on innovation. By analyzing patent records from 1950 to 1990, we trace the…
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