This paper re-explores the relation between a country’s level of wealth and the mix of products it exports. We argue that both are simultaneously determined by countries’ capabilities i.e. by countries’ productivity and quality levels for each good. Our theoretical setup has two features. (1) Some goods have fewer high-quality producers/countries than others i.e. there is Ricardian comparative ...

As business professionals know, creating awareness of a problem and its impact is a critical first step toward the resolution of the problem. That which does not get measured, does not get managed (Redman, 1998). In fact, measurement is a precursor to improvement. This is true for knowledge management (KM) capabilities of an organization. “In today’s knowledge-based economy,” Alan Greenspan rec...

Unique object references have many important applications in object-oriented programming. For instance, with su cient encapsulation properties they enable safe and e cient transfer of message objects between concurrent processes. However, it is a long-standing challenge to integrate unique references into practical object-oriented programming languages. This paper introduces a new approach to e...

What an organisation does versus what it out-sources to the market is a classic boundaries of the firm question that has previously been dominated by efficiency arguments. However, a knowledge-based view suggests these boundaries are integral to the ability of a firm to deploy existing knowledge stocks efficiently, as well as develop new knowledge through learning that will drive future competi...

Abstract How organizations utilize capabilities to achieve competitive advantage and improve performance has received an abundance of scholarly attention. Both ordinary dynamic (DC) enable higher when leveraged appropriately under favorable conditions. The complexity organization's motives for why how different are acquired drives us further explore what complementarities might contexts. Specif...