Knowledge, options, and institutions / Bruce Kogut.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-362) and index.

1. Introduction: Knowledge, Options, and Institutions; PART I: KNOWLEDGE, COORDINATION, CATEGORIES, IDENTITY; 2. Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Knowledge; 3. Knowledge and the Speed of the Transfer and Imitation of Organizational Capabilities: An Empirical Test; 4. What Firms Do: Coordination, Identity, and Learning; PART II: PRACTICES, INSTITUTIONS, AND DIFFUSION; 5. Country Capabilities and the Permeability of Borders; 6. National Systems, Organizational Practices, and Institutions; 7. Prototypes and Fuzzy Work Practices: Assigning Causal Credit for Performance; PART III: MARKETS, VALUE, AND OPTIONS; 8. Joint Ventures: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives; 9. Joint Ventures and the Option to Expand and Acquire; 10. Operating Flexibility, Global Manufacturing, and the Option Values of a Multinational Network; 11. Strategy, Heuristics, and Real Options; PART IV: INSTITUTIONS AND GEOGRAPHY; 12. Localization of Knowledge and the Mobility of Engineers in Regional Networks; 13. Open-Source Software Development and Distributed Intelligence; PART V: LOOKING FORWARD; 14. Network as Knowledge: Generative Rules and the Emergence of Structure.