[Paper first received, April 2003; in final form, November 2003] In a world of strangers… a
new sucker arrives every minute… The dealings of strangers are subject to social norms. In …

Networks have been hailed as a third organizational form, between markets and hierarchies.
One of the main characteristics of networks is the coexistence of different kinds of …

This conceptual paper analyses why social capital is important for learning and economic
development, how it is created and its geography. It argues that with the rise of globalisation …

This article discusses ineffective knowledge and information communication as an important
barrier to improving energy efficiency in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and …

Although research on industry clusters has made many valuable contributions, a dearth of
empirical evidence and theoretical reflection about the characteristics of Base of the Pyramid …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how bonding (ie tightly knit, emotionally
close social relationships) and bridging social capital (ie outward looking open social …

Arguably, one of the bigger academic as well as policy hypes for almost a decade now is the
issue of industrial clusters. Known under different labels for more than a century and …

The paper is conceptual, combining project and economic organization literatures in order to
explain the organization and management of market‐based projects. It puts particular focus …

To achieve the goal of keeping global warming well below 2° C, private investors have to
shift capital from brown to green infrastructures and technologies and provide additional …

In a competitive environment rivals will quickly respond to changes and improvements. This
new contribution demonstrates that companies need to have a methodology for developing …