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This paper uses a cognitive theory of firms and organizations, with a focus on learning and innovation.Here, cognition … between that cognitive theory and Penrose's theory of the growth of the firm.As in Penrose's work, the focus is on learning … collaboration between firms, for learning and innovation, in the combination of capabilities between rather than within the firm …
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Taking into account both competence and governance issues, and six dimensions of tie strength, this article argues that in networks for exploration there are good reasons, counter to the thesis of the 'strength of weak ties', for a dense structure of ties that are strong in most dimensions.By...
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This chapter offers a theory and an analytical framework for the analysis of cluster dynamics, i.e. the innovative …
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This article provides empirical tests of the hypothesis of optimal cognitive distance , proposed by Nooteboom (1999, 2000), in two distinct empirical settings.Variety of cognition, needed for learning, has two dimensions: the number of agents with different cognition, and differences in...
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and strength of ties in innovation networks.We study both exploration and exploitation networks in the Dutch multimedia …
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In this paper we test the relation between cognitive distance and innovation performance of firms engaged in technology …-based alliances.The key finding is that the hypothesis of an inverted U-shaped effect of cognitive distance on innovation performance …
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are played when and by whom.In this article, roles are attributed to different stages of innovation and organizational … development.A central theme is the relation between discontinuity, in radical innovation (exploration), and continuity, in … towards radical innovation.Parallel to this there are processes of organisational development. …
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This paper contributes to the analysis of where and how both exploitation and exploration may take place inside and between communities and organizations. It connects with the discussion of differences between communities of practice and epistemic communities. The analysis allows for differences...
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This chapter explains and employs a constructivist, interactionist theory of knowledge that has come to be known as the … has received further substance from neural science.It yields a basis for a cognitive theory of the firm, with the notion … distance between firms for innovation by interaction. …
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