This paper compares how managers value knowledge from internal and external sources. Although many theories account for favoritism toward insiders, we find that preferences for knowledge obtained from outsiders are also prevalent. Two complementary case studies and survey data from managers...

This paper compares how managers value knowledge from internal and external sources. Although many theories account for favoritism toward insiders, we find that preferences for knowledge obtained from outsiders are also prevalent. Two complementary case studies and survey data from managers...

Markets and communities are often compared as alternative forms of knowledge sharing, but the process by which people dynamically transition between them is less understood. As a preliminary study of these transitions, we design a technology that allows geographically distributed participants to...