In the first part of this paper, the economic development objectives, strategies, and structures adopted by First Nations of Canada are examined, and seven significant characteristics are identified. In the second, current theories on economic development are considered, and a contingency...

Instrumental stakeholder theory has largely emphasized the positive effects of investing in stakeholder cooperative relationships in an additive, lineal fashion in the sense that the more investments the better. Yet investing in stakeholders can be very costly and the effects of these...

Political economy and economic sociology have developed in relative isolation from each other. While political economy focuses largely on macrophenomena, economic sociology focuses on the level of social interaction in the economy. The paper argues that economic sociology can provide a...

It is often presumed that knowledge exchange (or transfer) leads to distinctive advantages for firms. Amalgamating extensive qualitative data from knowledge-intensive sites and agent-based simulation, we model how individual agents, rather than organizational units or firms, search and exchange...

Forschung gilt als treibende Kraft nachhaltigen Wirtschaftswachstums in heutigen Wissensgesellschaften. Damit nehmen auch die Interaktionen zwischen Hochschulen und Industrie eine wesentliche Rolle zur Gewährleistung der Innovationskraft moderner Volkswirtschaften ein. Ein erfolgreicher Wissen-...

Zusammenfassung: Forschung gilt als treibende Kraft nachhaltigen Wirtschaftswachstums in heutigen Wissensgesellschaften. Damit nehmen auch die Interaktionen zwischen Hochschulen und Industrie eine wesentliche Rolle zur Gewährleistung der Innovationskraft moderner Volkswirtschaften ein. Ein...

Contingent capital can automatically recapitalize the banking system during financial crises if the trigger mechanism is properly designed. We propose a dual trigger mechanism that is a function of: (1) aggregate systemic risk in the banking system, measured using CATFIN, and (2) individual bank...

This paper puts forward a contingency framework on business model dynamics. Examining three different forms of business model dynamics, namely business model evolution, adaptation and innovation, the author addresses the questions which environmental conditions prompt different types of business...

Prior research has highlighted that network sparseness and network centrality enhance innovativeness through access to information and influence, respectively. We advance this perspective by exploring the extent to which individual actions are needed to mobilize information and influence...