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Knowledge Creation and Control in Organizations / Diego Puga, Daniel Trefler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Puga, Diego.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w9121.
- NBER working paper series no. w9121
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2002.
- Summary:
- The incremental innovations that underly much of modern economic growth typically involve changes to one or more components of a complex product. This creates a tension. On the one hand, a principal would like an agent to contribute innovative components. On the other hand, ironing out incompatibilities between interdependent components can be a drain on the principal's energies. The principal can conserve her energies by tightly controlling the innovation process, but this may inadvertently stifle the agent's incentive to innovate. We show precisely how this tension between creating knowledge and controlling knowledge shapes organizational forms. The novel concepts introduced are illustrated with case studies of the flat panel cathode ray tube industry and Boeing's recent location decisions.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 2002.
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