This paper applies the methodological tools typical of social network analysis (SNA) within an evolutionary framework, to investigate the knowledge-base (KB) dynamics of the biotechnology sector. Knowledge is here considered a collective good represented as a co-relational and a...

This article analyzes the contribution of high-growth firms (HGFs) to the process of knowledge creation. We articulate a demand-pull innovation framework in which knowledge creation is driven by sales growth, and knowledge stems from creative recombination. Building on the literature on HGFs and...

The paper investigates the co-evolutionary patterns of the dynamics of technological alliances and of the structure of the knowledge base in the pharmaceutical sector. The main hypothesis under scrutiny is that technological alliances represent a key resource for firms in knowledge intensive...

In this paper, we present a methodology to represent and measure knowledge which takes into account knowledge heterogeneity and its sectoral level theoretical and empirical implications in knowledge intensive environments. We draw on work on recombinant knowledge, extending the approach to...

The paper analyzes the effects of the properties of firms' knowledge base on the survival likelihood of firms. Drawing upon the analysis of the patterns of co-occurrence of technological classes in patent applications, we derive the coherence, variety and cognitive distance indexes, accounting...

This paper aims to revisit the link between corporate governance, value, and firm performance by focusing on convergence, understood as the way that non-US firms are adopting US best practice in terms of corporate governance, and the implications of this adoption. We examine theoretical...

Nous tentons ici de relier dans un cadre commun quelques concepts, nord-américains (USA), japonais, et français, qui nous ont permis, durant quinze ans, à la fois de réaliser des applications innovantes très diverses dans des entreprises et des organisations tout aussi diverses, et de mener...

Knowledge management is now a huge domain, where it is difficult to have a clear view of the manipulated concepts and their crossed-relations. The development of that domain requires now a theoretical framework including concepts from various theories as Knowledge Economy, Information Systems,...

Pendant de nombreuses années, la recherche en gestion des connaissances s'est intéressée à l'élaboration, pour le niveau opérationnel de l'entreprise (les métiers), de méthodes, outils et démarches de repérage, de préservation, de formalisation, d'enrichissement et de valorisation des...

Human knowledge has always been an object of research. Social systems have generated huge Knowledge Capital, depending on their project and their environment. These sets of knowledge are structured as systems, and are new research objects. Analysis of such systems are of great importance in our...