The Use of History in Management Research and Education
| Peter Klein | Another book recommendation, also courtesy of EH.Net. The book is Organizations in Time: History, Theory, Methods (Oxford University Press, 2014), edited by Marcelo Bucheli and R....
View ArticleTwo Interesting NBER Papers
| Peter Klein | A couple of recent NBER papers of interest to O&Mers, one from Doug Irwin, another from Luis Garicano and Esteban Rossi-Hansberg: Adam Smith’s “Tolerable Administration of Justice”...
View ArticleBehavioral Contract Theory
| Peter Klein | The December 2014 issue of the Journal of Economic Literature contains a nice review article on “Behavioral Contract Theory” by Botond Köszegi. Abstract below, ungated version here....
View ArticleThe Paper the World Needs Right Now
| Lasse Lien | I strongly think this paper is both timely and useful. Filed under: - Lien -, Ephemera, Papers, Recommended Reading
View ArticleMore on Strategy and Game Theory
| Peter Klein | Recent posts on strategy and game theory (here and here) generated quite a lot of discussion here and on social media. Avinash Dixit offers more grist for the mill in his December 2014...
View Article“Robert Bork’s Forgotten Role in the Transaction Cost Revolution”
| Peter Klein | Thanks to Danny Sokol for passing on this paper by Alan Meese. Robert Bork’s Forgotten Role in the Transaction Cost Revolution Alan J. Meese Antitrust Law Journal 79, no. 3 (2014) This...
View ArticleA Good Reason to Study Corporate Culture
| Peter Klein | Corporate culture is hard to define and measure (Kreps’s game-theoretic version is probably the one most familiar to economists), but may play a role in explaining variation in firm...
View ArticleKealey and Ricketts on Science as a Contribution Good
| Peter Klein | Two of my favorite writers on the economic organization of science, Terence Kealey and Martin Ricketts, have produced a recent paper on science as a “contribution good.” A contribution...
View ArticleMeasuring Tacit Knowledge
| Peter Klein | The concept of tacit knowledge — knowledge that is difficult or impossible to parameterize, or to express in words or numbers — is central to organization theory, as well as philosophy...
View ArticleLabor Market Responses to Recessions
| Lasse Lien | If you are interested in how firms respond to recessions, you might like this blog post by Matt Palmquist for the Strategy+business blog, or this one for the LSE business review. I know...
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