orgtheory.net (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
It’s not often that I’m so genuinely surprised by a journal article that I jump out of my seat and nearly knock my computer screen over. Yet this is what happened to me yesterday morning. And what, you may ask, caused my outburst? Well, I noticed an article in the most recent issue of Organization Studies about the cognitive dimensions of organizational life that was written by Nicolai Foss...
Organizations and Markets (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
| Nicolai Foss | My colleague Dr. Trine Bille is the organizer of next year’s “International Conference of the Association of Cultural Economics International” in Copenhagen (CBS). Here is the Call. Submit a paper! Posted in - Foss -, Ephemera
Organizations and Markets (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Nicolai Foss Here is a nice discussion of Foucault by UChicago Law School professor Brian Leiter. It is not a smashing per se, but rather a critical discussion that indicates a central flaw in Foucault’s philosophy. Leiter points to Foucault’s well known discussion of the “pretence” of the “human sciences” something he seems to explain on the basis...
Organizations and Markets (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
| Nicolai Foss | As argued by Nelson and Winter in their 1982 book, An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, and more explicitly by Winter and Gabriel Szulanski in their 2001 paper, “Replication as Strategy,” many firms leverage their competitive advantages by means of replication. Franchise chains come immediately to mind (the “McDonalds Approach”) but also...
Organizations and Markets (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
| Nicolai Foss | It is a sad fact that I spent a considerable part of my early 20s browsing the pages of the major economics journals of the interwar period. I was particularly interested in what was then called “monetary theory of the trade cycle” and the role of expectations in the business cycle (Myrdal, [...]
Organizations and Markets (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
| Nicolai Foss | In spite of book titles such as Competitive Advantage Through People, the existence of a whole subfield dedicated to linking human resources and firm-level performance outcomes (i.e., strategic HRM), and a general recognition that many knowledge-based competitive advantages are ultimately rooted in a web of complementary and firm-specific human capital, surprisingly little...
Organizations and Markets (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
| Nicolai Foss | Economic methodology, or, meta-theoretical discussion of (and in) economics, has gone significantly beyond with theme that many practicing economists associate with the field, namely the realism-of-assumptions theme prompted by Friedman’s famous 1953 essay, “The Methodology of Positive Economics.” Of course that theme is by no means unimportant, and...
