Welcome to Nicolai Foss' Downloadable Papers Page 

The papers are thematically arranged.

NB: This is a subset of my published papers (see CV for complete list).

Please, have patience; it will take some time before all papers are downloadable.

The Theory of the Firm

• “Performance Pay, Delegation, and Multitasking Under Uncertainty and Innovativeness: an Empirical Investigation,” (with Keld Laursen) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2005).

• “Transaction Cost Economics in Scandinavia ,” Scandinavian Journal of Management (2005).

• “Cognition and Motivation in the Theory of the Firm,” Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines 13:  (2005).

• “New HRM Practices, Complementarities, and the Impact on Innovation Performance” (with Keld Laursen), Cambridge Journal of Economics 27: 243-263 (2003)

• “Selective Intervention and Internal Hybrids: Interpreting and Learning from the Rise and Decline of the Oticon Spaghetti Organization.” Organization Science 14: 331-349 (2003).

• “Coase vs Hayek: Economic Organization in the Knowledge Economy,” International Journal of the Economics of Business 9: 9-36 (2002)

• “Introduction: New Organizational Forms - Critical Perspectives,” International Journal of the Economics of Business 9: 1-8 (2002)

• “Assets, Attributes and Ownership,” (with Kirsten Foss), International Journal of the Economics of Business 8: 19 -37 (2001).

• ”Learning in Firms: Knowledge-Based and Property Rights Perspectives,”(with Kirsten Foss), European Journal of Social and Economic Systems 14: 119-142. (2000).

• ”The Use of Knowledge in Firms”, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 155: 458-486 (1999). (Reprinted in Sandye Gloria-Palermo, Peter Boettke and Stephan Boehm, Modern Austrian Economics, London : Pickering and Chatto, 2002).

• “Incomplete Contracts and Economic Organization: Brian Loasby and the Theory of the Firm”, in Sheila Dow and Peter Earl, eds.: Economic Knowledge and Economic Coordination: Essays in Honour of Brian J Loasby. Aldershot : Edward Elgar, 1999.

• “Capabilities and Governance: the Rebirth of Production in the Theory of Economic Organization” (with Richard N. Langlois). KYKLOS 52: 201-218. (1999)  ((Reprinted in Richard N Langlois, Tony Fu-Lai Yu and Paul L Robertson, eds., Alternative Theories of the Firm, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar).

• “The Competence-Based Approach: Veblenian Ideas in the Modern Theory of the Firm”, Cambridge Journal of Economics 22: 479-496. (1998).

• “Evolutionary and Contractual Theories of the Firm: How do They Relate?”, Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 29: 63-91. (1997).

• “On the Rationales of Corporate Headquarters”, Industrial and Corporate Change 6: 313-339. (1997)

• “The Classical Theory of Production and the Capabilities View of the Firm”, Journal of Economic Studies 24: 307-323. (1997).

• “Harold Malmgren's Analysis of the Firm: Lessons for Modern Theorists?”. Review of Political Economy 8: 349-366. (1996).

• “Capabilities and the Theory of the Firm”, Revue d’Economie Industrielle 77:  7-28  . (1996).

• “Higher-Order Industrial Capabilities and Competitive Advantage: Some Analytical Suggestions”. (1996). Journal of Industry Studies 3: 1-20.

• “Opportunism, Organizational Economics, and the Network Approach” (with Carsten A. Koch). Scandinavian Journal of Management  12: 189-205. (1996).

• “Firms, Incomplete Contracts, and Organizational Learning”. Human Systems Management  15: 17-26. (1996).

• “The “Alternative” Theories of Knight and Coase, and the Modern Theory of the Firm”. Journal of the History of Economic Thought, vol. 18, no.1, pp. 76-95 . (1996).

• “Cooperation is Competition: George Richardson on Coordination and Interfirm Arrangements”. British Review of Economic Issues 16: 25-49 (1994)

• “The Biological Analogy and the Theory of the Firm,” Journal of Economic Issues 18: 1115-1136 . (1994).

• “Why Transaction Cost Economics Needs Evolutionary Economics”. Revue d'Economie Industrielle No. 68: 7-26  (1994).

• “The Two Coasian Traditions”. Review of Political Economy 6: 35-61 (1994).

• “The Theory of the Firm: The Austrians as Precursors and Critics of Contemporary Theory”. Review of Austrian Economics 7 (1): 31-65. (1994). 

• “More on Knight and the Theory of the Firm”. Managerial and Decision Economics 14: 269-276. (1993).

• “Theories of the Firm: Contractual and Competence Perspectives” (1993). Journal of Evolutionary Economics 3 (2): 127-144 (1993).

 Firm Strategy

• “Value and Transaction Costs: How Property Rights Economics Furthers the Resource-based View,” Strategic Management Journal (2005).

• “The Next Step of Evolution of the Resource-based View: Integration with Transaction Cost Economics,”(with Kirsten Foss) Management Revue 15: 1-16 (2004).

• “Corporate Communication in the Emerging Network Economy: A Provider of Common Knowledge,” (with Tore Kristensen and Ricky Wilke), Corporate Communications 9: 43 -49 (2004).

• “Coordinating Beliefs: a Crucial Capability for Value Creation in the Network Economy,” in Subir Chowdury, ed. Next Generation Business Handbook. New York : Wiley. (2004)

• ”The Resource-based Tangle: In Search of Sustainable Foundations,” (with Thorbjørn Knudsen). Managerial and Decision Economics 24: 291-307 (2003).

• “The Strategic Management and Transaction Cost Nexus: Past Debates, Central Questions, and Future Research Possibilities,” Strategic Organization 1: 139-169 (2003).

• ”Leadership, Beliefs and Coordination,” Industrial and Corporate Change 10: 357-388. (2001).

• ”Corporate Coherence: a Market Process Approach,” (with Jens Frøslev Christensen), Managerial and Decision Economics 22: 213-226. (2001).

• ”Competence and Governance Perspectives: How Much Do They Differ? And How Does It Matter?” (with Kirsten Foss). In Nicolai J Foss and Volker Mahnke, eds. Competence, Governance, and Entrepreneurship. Oxford : Oxford University Press. (2000).

• “Equilibrium and Evolution: The Conflicting Legacies of Demsetz and Penrose,” in Nicolai J Foss and Paul L. Robertson, eds. Resources, Technology, and Strategy. London : Routledge (2000).

• “The Boundary School ”. In Tom Elfring and Henk Volberda, eds., New Directions in Strategy. London : Sage. (2000).

• ”Competence Building : Understanding the Role of Internal Venturing and Spin-Offs,” Advances in Applied Business Strategy 6: 97-119 (with Tom Elfring) (2000).

• “Research in the Strategic Theory of the Firm: “Integrationism” and “Isolationism”, Journal of Management Studies 36: 725-755 (November) (1999).

• “The Resource-Based Perspective: An Assessment and Diagnosis of Problems”, Scandinavian Journal of Management 14: 133-149 . (1998).

• ”Edith Penrose, Economics, and Strategic Management,” Perspectives in Political Economy 18: 87-104. (1999) (Reprinted in Christos Pitelis, ed. 2001. The Growth of the Firm: The Legacy of Edith Penrose. Oxford : Oxford University Press).  ´

• Edith Penrose and the Penrosians - Or, Why There is Still so Much to Learn From The Theory of the Growth of the Firm”, Economies et Sociétés 29: 143-164. (1999).  

• “Networks, Capabilities, and Competitive Advantage”, Scandinavian Journal of Management 155: 1-15.

• “Ethics, Discovery, and Strategy”. Journal of Business Ethics 16: 1131-1142 (1997).

• “More Critical Comments on Knowledge-Based Theories of the firm”. Organization Science 7: 519-523 (1996).

• “Knowledge-Based Approaches to the Theory of the Firm: Some Critical Comments”. Organization Science 7: 470-476 (1996).

• “Strategy, Economics, and Michael Porter”. Journal of Management Studies 33: 1-24. (1996)

• “The Emerging Competence Perspective”. In N.J. Foss and C. Knudsen: Towards a Competence Theory of the Firm.  London : Routledge, 1996.

• “Whither the Competence Perspective?”. In N.J. Foss and C. Knudsen. London :  Routledge, 1996.

• “Industry Capabilities and Competitive Advantage” (with Bo Eriksen). In C.A. Montgomery : Evolutionary and Resource-Based Approaches to Strategy. Boston : Kluwer, 1995.

• “Towards a Synthesis of Evolutionary and Resource-Based Approaches to Strategy” (with Christian Knudsen and Cynthia Montgomery). In C.A. Montgomery : Evolutionary and Resource-Based Approaches to Strategy. Boston : Kluwer, 1995

International Business

• "Strategic Opportunity and Economic Performance in Multinational Enterprises (with Torben Andersen), Journal of International Management 11: 293-310.

• “Governing Knowledge Processes in the Multinational Corporation: An Introduction” (with Torben Pedersen), Journal of International Business Studies 35: 339-349.

• ”Sources of Subsidiary Knowledge and Organizational Means of Knowledge Transfer” (with Torben Pedersen). Journal of International Management 8: 49-67 (2002).

• “The Challenge of Business Systems and the Challenge to Business Systems”, International Studies of Management and Organization 29: 9-24. (1999)

• ”Perspectives on Business Systems”, International Studies of Management and Organization 29: 3-8. (1999)

• “Accounting for the Strengths of MNC Subsidiaries: The Case of Foreign-Owned Firms in Denmark ” (with Torben Pedersen and Mats Forsgren), International Business Review 8: 181-196. (1999)

Bounded Rationality

• “Herbert Simon’s Grand Theme in the Economics of Organization: “Much Cited and Little Used’,” Journal of Economic Psychology 24: 245-264 (2003).

• “The Rhetorical Dimensions of Bounded Rationality: Herbert A. Simon and Organizational Economics,” in Salvatore Rizzello, ed. Cognitive Paradigms in Economics. London : Routledge (2003).

• “Bounded Rationality and Tacit Knowledge in the Organizational Capabilities Approach: an Evaluation and a Stocktaking,” Industrial and Corporate Change 12: 185-201.

  ”Bounded Rationality in the Economics of Organization: Present Use and Future Possibilities,” Journal of Management and Governance 5: 401-425. (2001).

• ”Simon’s Grand Theme and the Theory of Economic Organization,” Journal of Management and Governance 5: 216-223. (2001).

Austrian economics

• “The Limits to Designed Orders: Authority Under “Distributed Knowledge” (with Kirsten Foss), Review of Austrian Economics (2005) (forthcoming).

• ”Organizing Economic Experiments: the Role of Firms,” (with Kirsten Foss) Review of Austrian Economics (2003).

• “Heterogeneous Capital, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Organization,” (with Kirsten Foss, Peter Klein and Sandra Klein), Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaine 12: 79-96 (2003).

• ”Economic Organization and the Trade-Off Between Destructive and Productive Entrepreneurship,”(with Kirsten Foss). In Entrepreneurship and the Firm: Austrian Perspectives on Economic Organization, (edited with Peter G. Klein), Aldershot : Edward Elgar (2002).

• ”Misesian Ownership and Coasian Authority in Hayekian Settings: The Case of the Knowledge Economy,” Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics 4: 3-24.  (2001).

• ”Austrian Economics and Game Theory: An Evaluation and a Stocktaking,” Review of Austrian Economics 13: 41 -58. (2001).

• “Austrian Insights and the Theory of the Firm”, Advances in Austrian Economics 4: 175-198. (1997)

• “Ethics, Discovery, and Strategy”. Journal of Business Ethics 16: 1131-1142 . (1997)

• “Economics, Institutions, and Ludwig von Mises”. Cultural Dynamics 9: 77-96. (1997).

• “Spontaneous Social Order: Economics and Schützian Sociology”. American Journal of Economics and Sociology 55: 73-86. (1996).

• “More on “Hayek's Transformation”. History of Political Economy 27 (2): 345-364 (1995)

• “The Economic Thought of an Austrian Marshallian: George Barclay Richardson”. Journal of Economic Studies 22: 23-44. (1995).

Methodology

• ”Theoretical Isolation in Contract Economics,” (with Kirsten Foss), Journal of Economic Methodology 7: 313-339. (2000).

• ”The Dangers and Attractions of Eclecticism,” Journal of Macromarketing 20: 65-67.         (2000).

• “The New Growth Theory: Some Intellectual Growth Accounting”, Journal of Economic Methodology 5: 223-246 (1998).

• “Realism and Evolutionary Economics”. Journal of Social and Biological Systems 17 (1) 21-40 (1994).

• “The Suppression of Evolutionary Approaches in Economics: The Case of Marshall and Monopolistic Competition”. Methodus 3: 65-72. (December 1991). (Reprinted in Geoff Hodgson (ed.) (1995) : Economics and Biology. Aldershot : Edward Elgar).

Other

• “Knowledge Management: An Organizational Economics Perspective” (with Volker Mahnke), in Marjorie Lyles and Easterby-Smith, eds.  Handbook of Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning. Oxford : Blackwell (2004).

• “Cognitive coordination, institutions, and clusters: An exploratory discussion,” (with Mark Lorenzen) in Thomas Brenner, ed. The Influence of Co-operations, Networks and Institutions on Regional  Innovation Systems, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar (2004).

• “Austrian and Post-Marshallian Economics: The Bridging Work of George Richardson”. In N.J. Foss and B.J. Loasby (eds.) : Capabilities and Coordination: Essays in Honour of G.B. Richardson.  Forthcoming, London : Routledge, 1998.

• “Types of Price Theory”. Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 53: 253-276 (1997)

Papers in Danish

• ”Nye arbejdsorganisationsformer i de største danske virksomheder: Resultater fra en spørgeskema-undersøgelse,” (with Torben Pedersen), Ledelse og Erhvervsøkonomi 69 (2005).  

• "Transaktionsomkostningsperspektivet." i Ivar Friis, Mark Lorenzen, and Vamos Tamosi, eds. Erhvervsøkonomisk Teori. København: Samfundslitteratur.

• “Abstraktion og virkelighedskontakt i økonomisk teori – Hector Estrup som økonomisk metodolog,” Nationaløkonomisk Tidsskrift 141: 364-375 (2003).

• “Østrigsk makro- og konjunkturteori”, Samfundsøkonomen 1999.

• “De Politisk-Filosofiske Forskelle Mellem Keynes og Hayek: Et Historisk Perspektiv”. Samfundsøkonomen 1994 (October): 43-47.

• “Liberalisme og Økonomisk Teori”. Økonomi og Politik 67: 13-24 (1994).

Last updated 15-05-2006