Bruce Kogut's writing has sketched a theory of human motivation that sees managers as social, often altruistic, sometimes as selfish, who care about their colleagues and their status among them. For the first time this book collects together key pieces that show how this view works in...

Explores the theory of firm knowledge and how firms create new knowledge. Knowledge is considered to be in one of two categories: information or know-how. Firms exist, it is argued, because they are better than markets at sharing and transfer of knowledge. Information, which is often...