Reading List: micro-economics of innovation
to Stefano Brusoni:
Part 1
Henderson R. and K. Clark 1990. Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms. Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 35.
Langlois, R. N. and P. L. Robertson. 1992 “Networks and Innovation in a Modular System: lessons from the microcomputer and stereo component industries.” Research Policy, 21: 297-313.
Sanchez R. and J. T. Mahoney. 1996 “Modularity, Flexibility, and Knowledge Management in Product and Organisation Design.” Strategic Management Journal, 17, Winter Special Issue: 63-76.
Scott W. R. and G. F. Davis (2007) Technology and Structure. Chapter 6 in Organizations and Organizing – Rational, natural and open systems perspectives. Prentice Hall.
Part 2
Brusoni, S., Prencipe A. and K. Pavitt (2001), ‘Knowledge Specialisation, Organizational Coupling and the Boundaries of the Firm: Why Firms Know More Than They Make?”, Administrative Science Quarterly, 46 (4): 597-621.
Chesbrough, H., and K. Kusunoki. 2001. “The Modularity Trap: innovation, technology phase-shifts, and the resulting limits of virtual organisations.” In Nonaka, I. and D. Teece, (eds.) Knowledge and the Firm, Russell Sage Press.
Nickerson J. and T. R. Zanger (2004) A knowledge-based theory of the firm – The problem solving perspective. Organization Science 15 (6): 617-632
Orton J. D. and K. E. Weick (1990) Loosely Coupled Systems: A Reconceptualization. The Academy of Management Review, 15 (2): 203-223.
Corrado PASQUALI:
Acemoglu, D. (2002), Directed Technical Change, Review of Economic Studies, vol. 69, pp. 781-810
Grossman, G.M.and E.Helpman (1994) Endogenous innovation in the theory of growth, Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 8, pp. 23-44.
Menell, P. and Scotchmer, S. (forthcoming), Intellectual Property, in M. Polinsky and S. Shavell, eds. Handbook of Law and Economics, Amsterdam, Elsevier.
Verspagen, B. (2005), Innovation and Economic Growth, in J. Fagerberg, D. Mowery and R. Nelson (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Innovation, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 487-513.
to Patrick Cohendet:
P Cohendet, J-A Héraud, Pa Llerena. A Microeconomic Approach of the Dynamics of Creation, Contribution to the Schumpeter Society Colloquium, Nice, 2006.
Uzzi B., and Spiro, J. (2005), "Collaboration and Creativity: The Small World Problem", American Journal of Sociology, volume 111 (2005), pages 447-504
Bathelt, H., Malmberg, A. and Maskell, P. (2002) "Cluster and Knowledge: Local Buzz, Global Pipelines and the Process of Knowledge Creation", Working paper Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics.
Bresnahan, T., Gambardella, A. and Saxenian, A. (2002) "Old Economy" Inputs for "New Economy" Outcomes: Cluster Formation in the New Silicon Valley", Working paper, Stanford University.
to Giovanni Dosi:
Dosi, G. “Technological Paradigms and Technological Trajectories. A Suggested Interpretation of the Determinants and Directions of Technical Change”, Research Policy, 1982
Dosi, G. “Sources, procedures and Microeconomic Effects of Innovation”, Journal of Economic Literature, 1988
Dosi G., F. Malerba, O. Marsili and L. Orsenigo, “Industrial Structures and Dynamics: Evidence, Interpretations and Puzzles”, Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 6 n. 1, 1997
Dosi, G. Statistical Regularities in the Evolution of Industries. A Guide through some Evidence and Challenges for the Theory, Pisa, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, LEM Working Paper 2005/17, forthcoming in S. Brusoni and F. Malerba (eds.) Perspectives on Innovation, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press
to Patrick Llerena:
Brusoni S., Prencipe A., Pavitt K. (2002), "Knowledge specialization, organization coupling, and the boundaries of the firm: Why do firms know more than they make?" Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 46, n°4: 597-625.
Cohendet P., P. Llerena (2003): "Routines and communities in the theory of the firm", Industrial and Corporate Change, vol.12:3, April , 271-297.
Cohendet P., Llerena P. (2005) : "A dual theory of the firm between transaction and competences: conceptual analysis and empirical considerations", Revue d'Economie Industrielle, n°110, 2ème trim, 2005, pp.175-198.
Cohendet P. Llerena P., Marengo L. (2000), "Is there a pilot in the evolutionary firm?", in N. Foss, V. Mahnke (eds), New directions in economic strategy research, Oxford Uni. Press.
Pavitt, K. (1998), "Technologies, Products and Organization in the Innovating Firm: What Adam Smiths Tells us and Joseph Schumpeter doesn't", Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol.7, n°3: 433-452.
to Luigi Marengo:
G. Dosi, L. Orsenigo and M. Sylos Labini, Technology and the Economy, in N. Smelser and R. Swedberg (eds.), Handbook of Economic Sociology, also at http://www.lem.sssup.it/WPLem/files/2002-18.pdf.
Dosi, G. “Sources, procedures and Microeconomic Effects of Innovation”, Journal of Economic Literature, 1988
Dosi, G. and L. Marengo, “On the Evolutionary and Behavioral Theories of Organizations: A Tentative Roadmap”, Organization Science, 2007, vol. 18, pp. 491-502.
Dosi, G., L. Marengo e C. Pasquali, “How much should society fuel the greed of innovators? On the relations between appropriability, opportunities and rates of innovation”, Research Policy, 2006, vol. 35, pp. 1110-1121.
Marengo, L. and G. Dosi (2005), “Division of Labor, Organizational Coordination and Market Mechanisms in Collective Problem-Solving”, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, vol. 58, 2005, pp. 303-326.
to Fredrik Tell:
Bergek A., Tell F., Berggren C., Watson J. (2008), "Technological capabilities and late shakeouts: industrial dynamics in the advanced gas turbine industry, 1987–2002", Industrial and Corporate Change, doi:10.1093/icc/dtn005.
Lindkvist L., Söderlund J. Tell F. (1998), "Managing product development projects: on the significance of fountains and deadlines", Organization Studies, 19/6, 931-951.
Prencipe, A. & F. Tell (2001), "Inter-project learning: processes and outcomes of knowledge codification in project-based firms", Research Policy, Vol. 30, No. 9, pp. 1373-1394
Yakob R., Tell F., 2007, "Managing near decomposability in complex platform development projects", Int. J. Technology Intelligence and Planning, Vol. 3, No. 4.