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 …

This paper investigates the influence of human resource management on learning from internal and external sources of … knowledge. Learning for innovation is a key ingredient of catching-up processes. The analysis builds on survey data about … performance are conducive to learning for innovation. …

We study the convergence properties of learning in social and economic networks. We characterize the effect of network … result is that the most efficient network topologies for faster convergence or learning are those where agents belong to … hence slow learning. …