Knowledge, Economic Organization and Property Rights

Nicolai J. Foss, Professor of Strategy and Organization, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark and Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Norway

• Contents: IntroductionPART I: KNOWLEDGE AND MICRO-FOUNDATIONS1. Knowledge-based Approaches to the Theory of the Firm: Some Critical Comments2. Bounded Rationality and Tacit Knowledge in the Organizational Capabilities Approach: An Assessment and a Re-evaluation3. Strategic Organization: A Field in Search of Micro-foundations4. The Rhetorical Dimensions of Bounded Rationality: Herbert A. Simon and Organizational Economics5. Transferring Knowledge in MNCs: The Role of Sources of Subsidiary Knowledge and Organizational Context6. The Use of Knowledge in Firms7. Theoretical Isolation in Contract Theory: Suppressing Margins and Entrepreneurship8. The Emerging Knowledge Governance Approach: Challenges and CharacteristicsPART II: ECONOMIC ORGANIZATION9. Coase vs Hayek: Economic Organization and the Knowledge Economy10. Selective Intervention and Internal Hybrids: Interpreting and Learning from the Rise and Decline of the Oticon Spaghetti Organization11. ‘Tying the Manager’s Hands’: Constraining Opportunistic Managerial Intervention’12. Performance Pay, Delegation and Multitasking under Uncertainty and Innovativeness: An Empirical InvestigationPART III: PROPERTY RIGHTS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP13. Assets, Attributes and Ownership14. Resources and Transaction Costs: How Property Rights and Economics Furthers the Resource-based View15. Original and Derived Judgment: An Entrepreneurial Theory of Economic Organization16. Economic Freedom and Entrepreneurial Activity: Some Cross-country EvidenceIndex

'Nicolai J. Foss is without doubt one of the leading business economists in Europe and beyond. However, his writings have been published in many different journals. It is therefore wonderful to have his work collected in one book. A valuable contribution indeed.'