The book Organizational Studies. Implications for the Strategic Management aims to analyze
the evolution of organizational studies by adopting a historical and theoretical approach …

The start-up of business ventures (university spin-offs—USOs) is an important channel that
universities can use to transfer the results of public research to the economic system …

Infusing hierarchies with elements of market control has become a much-used way of
simultaneously increasing entrepreneurialism and motivation in firms. However, this paper …

[Paper first received, April 2003; in final form, November 2003] In a world of strangers… a
new sucker arrives every minute… The dealings of strangers are subject to social norms. In …

Building on existing empirical research on knowledge transfer, sharing and integration in
inter-firm and intra-firm relations, it is argued that there is little evidence and theoretical …

Corporate scandals, reflected in excessive management compensation and fraudulent
accounts, cause great damage. Agency theory's insistence to link the compensation of …

This paper aims at achieving a greater understanding of how contracts operate in practice
through a review of recent empirical literature on inter-firm contract design. Our focus on the …

This paper discusses the impact of the dynamics of motivation on new organizational forms
that are suited to forge value-creating knowledge transfers in teams and between …

The rise of the knowledge economy has far-reaching implications for the nature of economic
organization as well as firm strategy. Not surprisingly, thinking in management studies as …

This paper addresses corporate governance inthe light of two relatively new developments
inorganizational form, respectively towardsdevolved initiative within firms andpartnerships …