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Working Papers

2007

1. Building Micro-Foundations for the Routines, Capabilities, and Performance Links
   DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
   See also Journal Article in Managerial and Decision Economics (2008)

2006

2. Economic Freedom and entrepreneurial Activity Some Cross-Country Evidence
   DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
   See also Journal Article in Public Choice (2008)
3. Individuals and Organizations Thoughts on a Micro-Foundations Project for Strategic Management and Organizational Analysis
   DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
4. Institutions as Knowledge Capital: Ludwig M. Lachmann’s Interpretative Institutionalism
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany View citations
5. Original and Derived Judgment An Entrepreneurial Theory of Economic Organization
   DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
6. The Emerging Knowledge Governance Approach Challenges and Characteristics
   DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
7. Towards a Dynamic Resource-Based View Insights from Austrian Capital and Entrepreneurship Theory
   DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies

2005

8. The Theory of the Firm and Its Critics A Stocktaking and Assessment
   DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies

2004

9. Entrepreneurshoip and the Economic Theory of the Firm Any Gains from Trade?
   DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
10. Industrial Economics in Scandinavia
    Working Papers, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Economics
11. Organizational Routines A Sceptical Look
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations

2003

12. "Tying the Manager's Hands": How Firms can make Credible Commitments that make Opportunistic Managerial Intervention Less Likely
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies
13. Authority in the Context of Distributed Knowledge
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
14. Knowledge Management What Can Organizational Economics Contribute?
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
15. The MNC as a Knowledge Structure The Roles of Knowledge Sources and Organizational Instruments in MNC Knowledge Management
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies

2002

16. Authority and Discretion Tensions, Credible Delegation and Implications for New Organizational Forms
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
    Also in IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School
17. Creating, Capturing and Protecting Value A Property Rights-based View of CompetitiveStrategy
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
    Also in IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School
18. Heterogeneous Capital, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Organization
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
    Also in IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School View citations
19. Performance Pay, Delegation, and Multitasking under Uncertainty and Innovativeness An Empirical Investigation
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization (2005)
20. The Strategy and Transaction Cost Nexus Past Debates, Central Questions, and Future Research Possibilities
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies

2001

21. Bounded Rationality in the Economics of Organization Present Use and (Some) Future Possibilities
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
22. Ownership and Technological Capabilities in Brazil
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
23. Selective Intervention and Internal HybridsInterpreting and Learning from the Rise and Decline of the Oticon Spaghetti Organization
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
24. The MNC as a Knowledge Structure: The Roles of Knowledge Sources and Organizational Instruments for Knowledge Creation and Transfer
    Working Papers, Copenhagen Business School, Department of International Economics and Management
25. The Problem With Bounded Rationality On Behavioral Assumptions in the Theory of the Firm
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations

2000

26. Transferring Knowledge in MNCs: The Role of Sources of Subsidiary Knowledge and Organizational Context
    Working Papers, Copenhagen Business School, Department of International Economics and Management
    Also in IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School View citations

1999

27. Capabilities, Confusion, and the Costs of Coordination On Some Problems in Recent Research On Inter-Firm Relations
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
28. Organizing Economic Experiments The Role of Firms
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
29. Understanding Leadership A Coordination Theory
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
30. Understanding Ownership Residual Rights of Control and Appropriable Control Rights
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations

1998

31. Austrian Economics and Game Theory a Preliminary Methodological Stocktaking
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
32. Firms and the Coordination of KnowledgeSome Austrian Insights
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
33. Strategy Research and the Market Process Perspective
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
34. The Market Process and The Firm Toward a Dynamic Property Rights Perspective
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations

1997

35. Capabilities and Governance the Rebirth of Production in the Theory of Economic Organization
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
    Also in Working papers, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics (1996) View citations
    See also Journal Article in Kyklos (1999)
36. Equilibrium vs Evolution in the Resource-Based Perspective The Conflicting Legacies of Demsetz and Penrose
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
37. Incomplete Contracts and Economic Organization Brian Loasby and the Theory of the Firm
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
38. The Resource-Based Perspective An Assessment and Diagnosis of Problems
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations

1996

39. A Process Approach to Corporate Coherence
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
40. Austrian and Post-Marshallian EconomicsThe Bridging Work of George Richardson
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
41. Capabilities and the Theory of the Firm
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
42. Firms, Incomplete Contracts and Organizational Learning
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations
43. Thorstein B. Veblen Precursor of the Competence-Based Approach to the Firm
    DRUID Working Papers, DRUID, Copenhagen Business School, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy/Aalborg University, Department of Business Studies View citations

Undated

44. "Coase vs Hayek": Economic Organization in the Knowledge Economy
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School View citations
    See also Journal Article in International Journal of the Economics of Business (2002)
45. An interview with Brian J. Loasby
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School View citations
46. Assets, Attributes and Ownership
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School View citations
    See also Journal Article in International Journal of the Economics of Business (2001)
47. Austrian Economics and the Theory of the Firm
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School View citations
48. Cognitive Coordination and Economic Organization: Analogy and the Emergence of Focal Points
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School
49. Corporate Renewal Through Internal Venturing and Spinn-offs: Perspectives from Organizational Economics
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School
50. Economic Organization and the Accumulation of Rent-Earning Assets
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School
51. Economic Organization and the Tradeoffs between Productive and Destructive Entrepreneurship
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School View citations
52. Edith Penrose and the Penrosians - or, why there is still so much to learn from The Theory of the Growth of the Firm
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School View citations
53. From "Thin" to "Thick" bounded Rationality in the Economics of Prganization: An Explorative Discussion
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School
54. Influencing Beliefs: A Crucial Capability for Value Creation in the Network
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School
55. Internal Disaggregation in Oticon: Interpreting and Learning from the Rise and Decline of the Spaghetti Organization
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School View citations
56. Learning in Firms: Knowledge-Based and Property Rights Perspectives
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School View citations
57. Market Process Economics and the Theory of the Firm
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School View citations
58. New HRM Practices, Complementarities, and the Impact on Innovation Performance
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School View citations
59. On the Foundations of the Strategic Theory of the Firm
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School
60. On the Relations Between Evolutionary and Contractual Theories of the Firm
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School View citations
61. Promoting Synergies in Multiproduct Firms: Toward a Resource-based View
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School
62. Real Options and the Theory of the Firm
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School
63. Research in Institutional Economics in Management Science: Individuals, Teams, and Research Infrastructure in the European Union
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School
64. Simon's Grand Theme and the Economics of Organization
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School View citations
65. Strategy, Bargaining, and Economic Organization: Some Thoughts on the Transaction Cost Foundations of Firm Strategy
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School
66. The Boundary School
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School
67. The Knowledge-Based Approach: An Organizational Economics Perspective
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School
68. The New Growth Theory: Some Intellectual Growth Accounting
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Methodology (1998)
69. The Organization of Large, Complex Firms: An Austrian View
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School
70. The Ressource-Based Tangle: Towards a Sustainable Explanation of Competitive Advantage
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School
    See also Journal Article in Managerial and Decision Economics (2003)
71. The Rhetorical Dimensions of Bounded Rationality: Herbert A. Simon and Organizational Economics
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School
72. The Theory of the Firm: an Introduction to Themes and Contributions
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School View citations
73. The knowledge-Based Approach and Organizational Economics: How Much Do They Really Differ? And How Does It Matter?
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School View citations
74. Theoretical Isolation in Contract Theory: Suppressing Margins and Entrepreneurship
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School View citations
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Methodology (2000)
75. Understanding Business Systems
    IVS/CBS Working Papers, Department of Industrial Economics and Strategy, Copenhagen Business School

Journal Articles

2008

1. Building micro-foundations for the routines, capabilities, and performance links
   Managerial and Decision Economics, 2008, 29, (6), 489-502
   See also Working Paper (2007)
2. Economic freedom and entrepreneurial activity: Some cross-country evidence
   Public Choice, 2008, 134, (3), 307-328 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2006)

2006

3. 'Tying the manager's hands': constraining opportunistic managerial intervention
   Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2006, 30, (5), 797-818
4. Knowledge and Organization in the Theory of the Multinational Corporation: Some Foundational Issues
   Journal of Management and Governance, 2006, 10, (1), 3-20 View citations
5. The limits to designed orders: Authority under “distributed knowledge” conditions
   The Review of Austrian Economics, 2006, 19, (4), 261-274 View citations

2005

6. Performance pay, delegation and multitasking under uncertainty and innovativeness: An empirical investigation
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2005, 58, (2), 246-276 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2002)

2003

7. Bounded rationality and tacit knowledge in the organizational capabilities approach: an assessment and a re-evaluation
   Industrial and Corporate Change, 2003, 12, (2), 185-201 View citations
8. Bounded rationality in the economics of organization: "Much cited and little used"
   Journal of Economic Psychology, 2003, 24, (2), 245-264 View citations
9. New human resource management practices, complementarities and the impact on innovation performance
   Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2003, 27, (2), 243-263 View citations
10. The resource-based tangle: towards a sustainable explanation of competitive advantage
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2003, 24, (4), 291-307 View citations
    See also Working Paper

2002

11. 'Coase vs Hayek': Economic Organization and the Knowledge Economy
    International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2002, 9, (1), 9-35 View citations
    See also Working Paper
12. New Organizational Forms - Critical Perspectives
    International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2002, 9, (1), 1-8
13. Organizing Economic Experiments: Property Rights and Firm Organization
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2002, 15, (4), 297-312 View citations

2001

14. A market-process approach to corporate coherence
    Managerial and Decision Economics, 2001, 22, (4-5), 213-226 View citations
15. Assets, Attributes and Ownership
    International Journal of the Economics of Business, 2001, 8, (1), 19-37 View citations
    See also Working Paper
16. Leadership, Beliefs and Coordination: An Explorative Discussion
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 2001, 10, (2), 357-88 View citations

2000

17. Austrian Economics and Game Theory: A Stocktaking and an Evaluation
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 2000, 13, (1), 41-58 View citations
18. Theoretical isolation in contract theory: suppressing margins and entrepreneurship
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 2000, 7, (3), 313-339 View citations
    See also Working Paper

1999

19. Capabilities and Governance: The Rebirth of Production in the Theory of Economic Organization
    Kyklos, 1999, 52, (2), 201-18 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1997)
20. Edith Penrose, Economics and Strategic Management
    Contributions to Political Economy, 1999, 18, 87-104 View citations
21. The Use of Knowledge in Firms
    Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 1999, 155, (3), 458- View citations

1998

22. The Competence-Based Approach: Veblenian Ideas in the Modern Theory of the Firm
    Cambridge Journal of Economics, 1998, 22, (4), 479-95 View citations
23. The New Growth Theory: Some Intellectual Growth Accounting
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 1998, 5, (2), 223-46 View citations
    See also Working Paper

1997

24. On the Rationales of Corporate Headquarters
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 1997, 6, (2), 313-38 View citations

1995

25. Information and the Market Economy: A Note on a Common Marxist Fallacy
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 1995, 8, (2), 127-34

1994

26. The Theory of the Firm: The Austrians as Precursors and Critics of Contemporary Theory
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 1994, 7, (1), 31-65 View citations

1993

27. Theories of the Firm: Contractual and Competence Perspectives
    Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 1993, 3, (2), 127-44 View citations