What types of relational and institutional mechanisms shape knowledge flows and the
upgrading capabilities of emerging-market firms in the face of economic liberalization? We …

A key question for policymakers at the regional and local level is how to provide the right
conditions for generating the growth of more knowledge-intensive forms of economic activity …

This article develops and defends a theory of “network failure” analogous to more familiar
theories of organizational and market failure already prevalent in the literature on economic …

The Sovereignty of Human Rights advances a legal theory of international human rights that
defines their nature and purpose in relation to the structure and operation of international …

An active debate has centered on the importance of manufacturing for driving innovation in
the US economy. This paper offers an alternative framework that focuses on the role of …

A sharp conceptual distinction used to be drawn between the firm and the market. However,
since the 1970s, many economists and sociologists have argued that the boundaries of the …

Why is the Mona Lisa the most famous painting in the world? Why did Facebook succeed
when other social networking sites failed? Did the surge in Iraq really lead to less violence …

"[A] lmost no one favors metropolitan area government," Anthony Downs has observed,"
except a few political scientists and intellectuals."'As a result, he said,"[p] roposals to replace …

abstract This article examines the growing importance of global, or external, search
networks that firms and other actors rely on to locate collaborators who can solve part of a …

Organizational communities present two generic features that are recurrently documented in
empirical studies, but only imperfectly accounted for in current models of interorganizational …