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Eterogeneità delle imprese e varietà dei modelli organizzativi. Conoscenze, risorse, relazioni, e istituzioni: verso una prospettiva integrata della teoria dell’impresa

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  • Fiorenza BELUSSI
  • Luciano PILOTTI

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The principal aim of this paper is to demonstrate that transaction cost analysis could be useful integrate in a more advanced perspective of dynamic capabilities. We think to answer to an old classic coasian’s problem of existence of the firm as an entity separated by market and moreover to show normatively some useful parameters to the comprehension of micro-decision making in contrast with optimisation standard approach. . Consequently the first aim of this work is to explore the process of heterogeneity of the firm and the co-generation of a deep variety of organizations. Our principal starting point of analysis is the shumpeterian theory of innovation as an evolutionary theory of the firm ante litteram

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  • Fiorenza BELUSSI & Luciano PILOTTI, 2006. "Eterogeneità delle imprese e varietà dei modelli organizzativi. Conoscenze, risorse, relazioni, e istituzioni: verso una prospettiva integrata della teoria dell’impresa," Departmental Working Papers 2006-27, Department of Economics, Management and Quantitative Methods at Università degli Studi di Milano.
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    Keywords

    Absorptive capacities; Technological opportunities; Scientific knowledge; Innovation;
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    JEL classification:

    • O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
    • I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
    • L20 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - General
    • L60 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Manufacturing - - - General

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