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NB: This is a subset of my published papers (see CV for complete list).
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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
“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),
“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
”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,
“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.
“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”,
“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).
“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
“Coordinating
Beliefs: a Crucial Capability for Value Creation in the Network Economy,” in
Subir Chowdury, ed. Next Generation Business Handbook.
”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.
“Equilibrium
and Evolution: The Conflicting Legacies of Demsetz and Penrose,” in Nicolai J
Foss and Paul L. Robertson, eds. Resources,
Technology, and Strategy.
“The
”
“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.
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.
“Whither
the Competence Perspective?”. In N.J.
Foss and C. Knudsen.
“Industry
Capabilities and Competitive Advantage” (with Bo Eriksen). In
“Towards
a Synthesis of Evolutionary and Resource-Based Approaches to Strategy” (with
Christian Knudsen and Cynthia Montgomery). In
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.
“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),
”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
“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.
Other
“Knowledge
Management: An Organizational Economics Perspective” (with Volker Mahnke), in
Marjorie Lyles and Easterby-Smith, eds. Handbook
of Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning.
“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,
“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,
“Types of Price Theory”. Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 53: 253-276 (1997)
Papers in Danish
“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).
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