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Information Technology and Change in Danish Organizations

Jørgensen, Kenneth Mølbjerg - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1998

The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between organizational change and information technology (IT) in Danish manufacturing and service companies. The data material is a survey covering 1900 Danish companies. In the paper it is shown that there in a three-year period are major...

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Knowledge Management What Can Organizational Economics Contribute?

Foss, Nicolaj J.; Mahnke, Volker - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2003

integration knowledge, rewarding knowledge workers, etc.) , and derive refutable implications that are novel to the knowledge …

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Understanding Leadership A Coordination Theory

Foss, Nicolai J. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1999

Important aspects of leadership behavior can be rendered intelligible through a focus on coordination games. The concept of common knowledge is shown to be particularly important to understanding leadership. Thus, leaders may establish common knowledge conditions and assist the coordination of...

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Authority in the Context of Distributed Knowledge

Foss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai J. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2003

The notion of distributed knowledge is increasingly often invoked in discussions of economic organization. In particular, the claim that authority is inefficient as a means of coordination in the context of distributed knowledge has become widespread. However, very little analysis has been...

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Authority and Discretion Tensions, Credible Delegation and Implications for New Organizational Forms

Foss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai J. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2002

We analyze a key problem in organization theory and design, namely the potential tension between authority (i.e., the power to make decisions which guide the decisions of another person) and the discretion of employees (i.e., the ability of an agent to control resources including his own human...

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The New Production of Young Scientists (PhDs) A Labour Market Analysis in International Perspective

Lanciano-morandat, Caroline; Nohara, Hiroatsu - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2003

The aim of this paper is twofold: firstly to highlight how the current “hybridisation” of the academic and industrial rationales exerts its influence over the new production of young scientists; secondly to compare, between five OECD countries (USA, France, Great Britain, Japan and Germany),...

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"Tying the Manager's Hands": How Firms can make Credible Commitments that make Opportunistic Managerial Intervention Less Likely

Foss, Kirsten; Foss, Nicolai J.; Vazquez-Vicente, Xose H. - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2003

opportunistically intervene when such intervention produces private benefits. Overall firm performance is harmed as a result, because …

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The Further the Better? Knowledge Intensive Service Firms' Collaboration on Innovation

Vinding, Anker Lund; Drejer, Ina - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 2006

Three hypotheses in relation to knowledge intensive service firms’ collaboration in relation to development of new … away than the main innovation partner of firms with a low level of absorptive capacity; and iii) collaboration with distant … associating the innovative output of cross-border collaborations with a higher degree of novelty than collaboration with local …

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Learning in the Village Economy of Denmark. The role of Institutions and Policy in Sustaining Competitiveness.

Maskell, Peter - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1996

The benefits of an international division of labour is never illustrated more clearly than in small developed nations like Denmark. Without many natural resources such countries can never be self sufficient and they need access to foreign markets in order for their firms to specialise and...

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The Social Dimension of the Learning Economy

Lundvall, Bengt-Åke - DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of … - 1996

This paper is a slightly revised version of Bengt-Åke Lundvall's Inaugural Lecture, the 10th of November at Department for Business Studies, Aalborg University. The general message is that the growing frequency of so-called paradoxes in economic theory and of unsolved socioeconomic problems...

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