!!!Organization Science Special Issue!!!
发布时间：2008-11-21
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- 2008-11-21
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- !!!Organization Science Special Issue!!!
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- Organization Science Special Issue
Organizational Economics and Organizational Capabilities:
From Opposition and Complementarity to Real Integration
Guest Editors
Nicholas Argyres – Washington University in St. Louis
Teppo Felin – Brigham Young University
Nicolai Foss – Copenhagen Business School
Todd Zenger – Washington University in St. Louis
Key Questions and Themes
Integrating organizational economics and capabilities-based ideas may proceed from
research questions that are theory as well as phenomena-driven:
Theory-driven Research Questions:
• How is a theoretical view of organizational capability development enhanced by
understanding the governance of transactions?
• Is transacting itself a learned capability?
• How does the transacting capability evolve? How is it developed by the firm?
• What organizational forms and associated decision-making structures best govern
knowledge creation and capability development?
What insights from organization theory might help us meaningfully bridge and
extend economic and capabilities-based reasoning? For example, what
organizational designs and forms might help us further understand organizational
boundaries and capabilities?
• What possible extensions are needed to transaction cost economics, specifically to
better understand capability development?
• What insights from psychology or organizational behavior might help us
understand organizational boundary decisions as they relate to organizational
capabilities?
• Where do transactions come from? If transactions are taken as given, where do
alternatives and understandings about transactions come from?
• What role does cognition and learning play at the nexus of organizational
economics and capability development?
• Where do new organizational capabilities come from? How are new markets
created and how do transactions and property rights play into this type of new
capability development?
• How are subjective perceptions about asset specificity aggregated in nascent
organizations? What is the relationship between asset specificity and capability
development in new markets?
• What organizational forms best capitalize on the development of capabilities in
new markets? How are activities related to new capability development
governed?
• What is the relationship between human capital, organizational boundaries and
organizational capability development?
• Can concepts of fit and complementarity (from the capability literature) be related
to, and integrated with, concepts of asset specificity and co-specialization (from
organizational economics)?
• What insights from information economics might enhance our understanding of
organizational capabilities and knowledge production? For example, information
asymmetries abound both across and within firms, how do these impact the
development of capabilities and the creation and governance of knowledge?