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Toward Formal Representations of Search Processes and Routines in Organizational Problem Solving : An Assessment of the State-of-The-Art

Dosi, Giovanni; Faillo, Marco; Marengo, Luigi; … - 2011

This paper presents a critical overview of some recent attempts at building formal models of organizations as information-processing and problem-solving entities. We distinguish between two classes of models according to two distinct objects of analysis. The first class includes models mainly...

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The Effect of Learning on the Make/Buy Decision

Anderson, Edward G. - 2011

By including the effects of learning over time on both the production of components and their integration into complete products, we develop an engineering-based model of outsourcing. This model provides an alternative explanation for much of what other outsourcing theories predict, as well as...

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Learning and the Law : Improving Behavioral Regulation from an International and Comparative Perspective

Dimitropoulos, Georgios - 2018

Various disciplines increasingly are discovering the power of learning. However, the potential and the complexities of learning theory in decision making contexts have so far been neglected by scholarship in Law and Economics as well as Behavioral Law and Economics: either learning is...

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Learning Paths to Offshore Outsourcing - From Cost Reduction to Knowledge Seeking

Maskell, Peter; Pedersen, Torben; Preuss, Björn; … - 2015

A corporation's offshore outsourcing may be seen as the result of a discrete, strategic decision taken in response to an increasing pressure from worldwide competition. However, empirical evidence of a representative cross-sector sample of international Danish firms indicates that offshore...

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Hierarchical experimentation

Chen, Chia-hui; Ishida, Junichiro - 2015

We consider a bandit problem faced by a team of two heterogeneous players. The team is hierarchical in that one (the principal) retains the exclusive right to terminate the project while the other (the agent) focuses strictly on implementing the project assigned to him. As a key departure, we...

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Hierarchical Thinking and Learning in Rank Order Contests

Cãrare, Octavian; Haruvy, Ernan; Prasad, Ashutosh - 2012

We analyze a class of coordination games in which the Kth player to submit an entry wins a contest. These games have an infinite number of symmetric equilibria and the set of equilibria does not change with K. We run experiments with 15 participants and with K=3, 7, and 11. Our experiments show...

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Learning Product Characteristics and Consumer Preferences from Search Data

Armona, Luis; Lewis, Gregory; Zervas, Georgios - 2021

. Our application is to the hotel market, where we combine two datasets: consumers' web browsing histories, and hotel prices … competition: hotels that are close to new entrants lose the most market share post-entry. We take a more structural approach to …

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The Adoption of New Technologies : Location, Learning and Asset Pricing Implications

Patel, Pratish - 2013

This paper analyzes the optimal investment strategy of two firms confronted with the option to adopt a new technology. I add two key features: location and learning. A firm gains relative advantage entirely due to its geographic placement - this is the location benefit. Firms also learn from the...

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Markets for (codified, tacit, encapsulated, and firm-specific) knowledge

Silverman, Brian S. - 2018

examines five distinct markets through which knowledge can be exchanged: the market for codified knowledge (licensing), the … market for tacit knowledge (alliances), the market for encapsulated knowledge (sale/purchase of sophisticated products), the … market for workers' knowledge (labor mobility), and the market for firm-wide knowledge or capabilities (mergers and …

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Social Learning and Solar Photovoltaic Adoption

Gillingham, Kenneth - 2020

A growing literature points to the effectiveness of leveraging social interactions and nudges to spur adoption of pro-social behaviors. This study investigates a large-scale behavioral intervention designed to actively leverage social learning and peer interactions to encourage adoption of...

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