Ole Bruun, Søren Poulsen and Hatla Thelle, eds.: Modern China Research: Danish Experiences.

Ole Lund Morten Nielsen Claus Lundegaard Can Keşmir Søren Brunak Immunological Bioinformatics

Danish Research Unit

The role of informal networks in the development of regional clusters has received a lot of attention in the literature recently. Informal contact between employees in different firms is argued to be one of the main carriers of knowledge between firms in a cluster. This paper empirically examines the role of informal contacts in a specific cluster. In a recent questionnaire, we ask a sample of ...

Danish Research Unit

This study makes use of the results of a postal questionnaire sent to a sample of large private sector companies in Britain and France to address two key issues in the new institutional analysis of the firm. The first is the way the institutional environment supports and constrains the design of firm-level organisational devices and governance mechanisms. The second concerns the relation betwee...

Danish Research Unit

I critically discuss recent claims about economic organization in the emerging “knowledge economy,” specifically that authority relations will tend to disappear (or at least become radically transformed), the boundaries of the firm will blur, and coordination mechanisms will be much more malleable than assumed in organizational economics, resulting in various “new organizational forms.” In part...

Danish Research Unit

This report deals with the transfer of knowledge from the North to the South. More specifically it deals with a Danish development aid project which aims at enhancement of research capacity in some Central American countries. First, some difficulties connected to knowledge transfer between North and South are discussed on a general level. It is argued that these difficulties are connected to co...