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Knowledge Creation and Control in Organizations

Diego PugaDaniel Trefler

出版	Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2002
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=GTJXAAAAYAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

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.