Henry Sauermann 2008

Mapping The eBusiness Landscape

Conflicting Logics? A Multidimensional View of Industrial and Academic Science

We develop a conceptual framework to characterize science along four dimensions: (1) the nature of work; (2) characteristics of the workplace; (3) characteristics of workers; and (4) the disclosure of research results. Drawing on the broader organizational literature, we discuss relationships between these dimensions and derive predictions regarding differences and similarities in the four dime...

A Sociotechnical Approach to Knowledge Management in the Era of Enterprise 2.0: the Case of OrganiK

The Classical Experiments on Cournot Oligopoly

Moving beyond the development of game theory and the exercise games for managers that inspired them, two papers – Hoggatt (1959) and Sauermann and Selten (1959, 1960) – explicitly set up controlled experiments on quantity adjusters (or Cournot) oligopolists. “The experiment can be constructed in such a way that decision-making can be observed throughout, and the assumptions about human behavior...

How to Educate Entrepreneurs?

Entrepreneurship education has two effects: it improves students’ entrepreneurial skills and provides impetus to those suited to entrepreneurship while discouraging others. While entrepreneurship education helps students to make a vocational decision its effects may conflict for those unsuited to entrepreneurship. We show that vocational and skill formation effects of entrepreneurship education...