IS THE TECHNOLOGICAL GAP TECHNOLOGICAL OR MANAGERIAL?

Technological Change and the Growing Inequality in Managerial Compensation

Three of the most fundamental changes in US corporations since the early 1970s have been (1) the increased importance of organizational capital in production, (2) the increase in managerial income inequality and pay-performance sensitivity, and (3) the secular decrease in labor market reallocation. Our paper develops a simple explanation for these changes: a shift in the composition of producti...

Enabling Distributed Knowledge Management: Managerial and Technological Implications

In this paper we show that the typical architecture of current KM systems reflects an objectivistic epistemology and a traditional managerial control paradigm. We argue that such an objectivistic epistemology is inconsistent with many theories on the nature of knowledge, in which subjectivity and sociality are taken as essential features of knowledge creation and sharing. We show that adopting ...

Implementing open innovation: technological, organizational and managerial tools

The concept of Open Innovation (OI) has generated a great interest in the last decade (Chesbrough, 2003). Over time, Open Innovation Strategy was drawn as a “must” for many firms in different sectors. Implementing an open firm means defining a set of variables: the ‘who’ issue, i.e. with whom the collaboration should take place (Laursen and Salter, 2006), the ‘when’ issue, i.e. which phase(s) o...

Technological gap, social gap: an investigation into the relationship between scientific technological production and human development in Brazil

Managerial Inefficiency and Technological Decline in Britain, 1860-1914

British economic decline in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has been attributed to the growing inability of British industries to compete technologically and organizationally with their American and German competitors. This paper argues that British firms' growth and adaptability were hampered by organizational weakness and that the major cause of Britain's managerial problems...