The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the
overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world. Its result is now …

Like the Greeks who sailed with Jason in search of the Golden Fleece, the new Argonauts--
foreign-born, technically skilled entrepreneurs who travel back and forth between Silicon …

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to
Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry …

We review the literature on recent changes to US employment relationships, focusing on the
causes of those changes and their consequences for inequality. The US employment model …

" Independent directors"-that is the answer, but what is the question? The now-conventional
understanding of boards of directors in the diffusely held firm is that they reduce the agency …

This paper proposes that transaction costs and capabilities are fundamentally intertwined in
the determination of vertical scope, and identifies the key mechanisms of their co‐evolution …

The Company of Strangers shows us the remarkable strangeness, and fragility, of our
everyday lives. This completely revised and updated edition includes a new chapter …

Alfred Chandler's portrayal of the managerial revolution of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries does not extend well into the late twentieth century, when widespread …

How control over information creation, processing, flows, and use has become the most
effective form of power: theoretical foundations and empirical examples of information policy …

How did openness become a foundational value for the networks of the twenty-first century?
Open Standards and the Digital Age answers this question through an interdisciplinary …