Knowledge, Options, and Institutions

Informationen zum Autor Bruce Kogut received his Ph.D. from MIT, has been a chaired professor at Wharton (University of Pennsylvania) and at INSEAD (Fontainebleau), and as of September 2007 the Bernstein Chaired Professor at Columbia University. Awarded an honorary doctorate at the Stockholm School of Economics where he has often been a visiting professor, he has also been a visitor at the Ecole Polytechnique, the Wissenschaftszentrum in Berlin, and the Santa Fe Institute. He is on the principal orginators of the theory of the firm as a reservoir of knowledge and capabilities embedded in social networks. In addition, he introduced the use of real options into strategy in reference to joint ventures and multinational production, and the study of institutions as critical to the study of the diffusion of best practices. Klappentext Bruce Kogut's writing has sketched a theory of human motivation that sees managers as social, often altruistic, sometimes as selfish, who care about their colleagues and their status among them. For the first time this book collects together key pieces that show how this view works in application to practical managerial issues. Zusammenfassung Bruce Kogut's writing has sketched a theory of human motivation that sees managers as social, often altruistic, sometimes as selfish, who care about their colleagues and their status among them. For the first time this book collects together key pieces that show how this view works in application to practical managerial issues. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction: Knowledge, Options, and Institutions Part I: Knowledge, Coordination, Categories, Identity 2: with Udo Zander: Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Knowledge 3: with Udo Zander: Knowledge and the Speed of the Transfer and Imitation of Organizational Capabilities: An Empirical Test 4: with Udo Zander: What Firms Do: Coordination, Identity, and Learning Part II: Practices, Institutions, and Diffusion 5: Country Capabilities and the Permeability of Borders 6: National Systems, Organizational Practices, and Institutions 7: with John Paul MacDuffie and Charles Ragin: Prototypes and Fuzzy Work Practices: Assigning Causal Credit for Performance Part III: Markets , Value, and Options 8: Joint Ventures: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives 9: Joint Ventures and the Option to Expand and Acquire 10: with Nalin Kulatilaka: Operating Flexibility, Global Manufacturing, and the Option Values of a Multinational Network 11: with Nalin Kulatilaka: Strategy, Heuristics, and Real Options Part IV: Institutions and Geography 12: with Paul Almeida: Localization of Knowledge and the Mobility of Engineers in Regional Networks 13: with Anca Metiu: Open-Source Software Development and Distributed Intelligence Part V: Looking Forward 14: Network as Knowledge: Generative Rules and the Emergence of Structure ...

Autorentext
Bruce Kogut received his Ph.D. from MIT, has been a chaired professor at Wharton (University of Pennsylvania) and at INSEAD (Fontainebleau), and as of September 2007 the Bernstein Chaired Professor at Columbia University. Awarded an honorary doctorate at the Stockholm School of Economics where he has often been a visiting professor, he has also been a visitor at the Ecole Polytechnique, the Wissenschaftszentrum in Berlin, and the Santa Fe Institute. He is on the principal orginators of the theory of the firm as a reservoir of knowledge and capabilities embedded in social networks. In addition, he introduced the use of real options into strategy in reference to joint ventures and multinational production, and the study of institutions as critical to the study of the diffusion of best practices.

Klappentext

Bruce Kogut's writing has sketched a theory of human motivation that sees managers as social, often altruistic, sometimes as selfish, who care about their colleagues and their status among them. For the first time this book collects together key pieces that show how this view works in application to practical managerial issues.

Inhalt

• 1: Introduction: Knowledge, Options, and Institutions

• Part I: Knowledge, Coordination, Categories, Identity

• 2: with Udo Zander: Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Knowledge

• 3: with Udo Zander: Knowledge and the Speed of the Transfer and Imitation of Organizational Capabilities: An Empirical Test

• 4: with Udo Zander: What Firms Do: Coordination, Identity, and Learning

• Part II: Practices, Institutions, and Diffusion

• 5: Country Capabilities and the Permeability of Borders

• 6: National Systems, Organizational Practices, and Institutions

• 7: with John Paul MacDuffie and Charles Ragin: Prototypes and Fuzzy Work Practices: Assigning Causal Credit for Performance

• Part III: Markets , Value, and Options

• 8: Joint Ventures: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives

• 9: Joint Ventures and the Option to Expand and Acquire

• 10: with Nalin Kulatilaka: Operating Flexibility, Global Manufacturing, and the Option Values of a Multinational Network

• 11: with Nalin Kulatilaka: Strategy, Heuristics, and Real Options

• Part IV: Institutions and Geography

• 12: with Paul Almeida: Localization of Knowledge and the Mobility of Engineers in Regional Networks

• 13: with Anca Metiu: Open-Source Software Development and Distributed Intelligence

• Part V: Looking Forward

• 14: Network as Knowledge: Generative Rules and the Emergence of Structure