TY - UNPB
T1 - Knowledge Management
T2 - What Can Organizational Economics Contribute?
AU - Foss, Nicolai Juul
AU - Mahnke, Volker
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Knowledge management has emerged as a very successful organization practice and has been extensively treated in a large body of academic work. Surprisingly, however, organizational economics (i.e., transaction cost economics, agency theory, team theory and property rights theory) has played no role in the development of knowledge management. We argue that organizational economics insights can further the theory and practice of knowledge management in several ways. Specifically, we apply notions of contracting, team production, complementaries, hold-up, etc. to knowledge management issues (i.e., creating and integration knowledge, rewarding knowledge workers, etc.) , and derive refutable implications that are novel to the knowledge management field from our discussion.
AB - Knowledge management has emerged as a very successful organization practice and has been extensively treated in a large body of academic work. Surprisingly, however, organizational economics (i.e., transaction cost economics, agency theory, team theory and property rights theory) has played no role in the development of knowledge management. We argue that organizational economics insights can further the theory and practice of knowledge management in several ways. Specifically, we apply notions of contracting, team production, complementaries, hold-up, etc. to knowledge management issues (i.e., creating and integration knowledge, rewarding knowledge workers, etc.) , and derive refutable implications that are novel to the knowledge management field from our discussion.
KW - Videnledelse
KW - Organizational economics
KW - Transaktionsomkostninger
KW - transaction costs
KW - Organizational economics
M3 - Working paper
T3 - DRUID Working Paper
BT - Knowledge Management
PB - DRUID - Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics
CY - København
ER -