This paper develops a property rights perspective on the nature of the firm. The basic idea is that learning by doing … learning by doing in production is accelerated by specialization in production. However, specialization introduces greater …

This paper inquires how the concept of the "learning economy" can be applied to the requirements of developing … countries. The main purpose is to develop an analytical framework to better understand how learning and capability formation can … conditions developing countries can use this set of generic technologies to improve their learning capabilities. We argue that …

The article departs from an understanding of organizational learning as processes that code historical events into … structure, highly educated employees, and a management style in which management aims at creating conditions for learning and …

. Basically we assume that some cumulative firms adopt an internal learning by searching strategy, while noncumulative firms adopt … an external learning strategy aiming at absorbing external sources of knowledge. The results show that the co …

the significant growth of survivors. At the core of our theory is the interaction of adjustment costs with learning by … differences across sectors. For a finite learning horizon version of the model, with positive dispersion in entry size, we …

market equilibrium and find that the average learning curve is S-shaped: learning is slow initially, intensifies rapidly and … finally converges slowly to the truth. We show that increasing public information always slows down learning in the long run …

The aim of this paper is to add new findings to the knowledge based view of the firm, where the cross-learning ability …. Collective, non formal - informal, formal types of learning (learning drivers) contribute to shape the competitiveness of firms …, focusing on learning capacities, and particularly on human skills, often leads to forget or ignore industry effects, such as …

used to construct a 4-way typology of organisational forms, labelled the 'learning<92>, 'lean<92>, 'taylorist<92> and … forms characterised by strong learning dynamics and high problem-solving activity. The fourth section takes up the issue of …&D expenditures. The results show that the relative importance of the learning form of organisation is both positively correlated with …