The concepts of cognitive distance and absorptive capacities are essential to understand learning and innovation processes, especially in Interfirm cooperation. The aim of this contribution is to realize a detailed analysis of the links between these two concepts. In a first part we will analyze...

Knowledge diffusion is a complex process. Knowledge is intangible and therefore is not easy to capitalize within an organization, or share between a set of individuals. The aim of this paper is to study the impact of two different structures of communication on both processes of knowledge...

On the class of cycle-free directed graph games with transferable utility solution concepts, called web values, are introduced axiomatically, each one with respect to a chosen coalition of players that is assumed to be an anti-chain in the directed graph and is considered as a management team....

Based on the work of Chwe (1999, 2000), we study how communication networks influence the diffusion of information and decision making in a class of coordination games under incomplete information. This framework can be used, for example, to analyze the diffusion of a new technology standard...

In this paper we study cooperative games with limited cooperation possibilities, represented by an undirected cycle-free communication graph. Players in the game can cooperate if and only if they are connected in the graph, i.e. they can communicate with one another. We introduce a new...

AMS classification: 90B18; 91A12; 91A43;