A Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm - The Problem-Solving Perspective

By Jack A. Nickerson, Todd R. Zenger. Organ. Sci., 2004

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Strategy and Management

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What Firms Make vs. What They Know: How Firms' Production and Knowledge Boundaries Affect Competitive Advantage in the Face of Technological Change (2012, positive): “Compared with nearly decomposable problems, nondecomposable problems subject firms to greater hazards associated with insufficient knowledge exchange between them and their component suppliers, as well as with suppliers underinvesting in component development tasks (Nickerson and Zenger 2004).”
Moving Opportunism to the Back Seat: Bounded Rationality, Costly Conflict, and Hierarchical Forms (2016, background): “Although TCE has been augmented in various ways over the last decades (e.g., Bromiley & Harris, 2006; Mayer & Argyres, 2004; Nickerson & Zenger, 2004; Weigelt & Miller, 2013; Williamson, 2000), cognitive influences informed by advances in psychology and neuroscience have largely been ignored (for…”
Capitalizing on Content: Information Adoption in Two Online communities (2008, neutral): “Given the importance of problem solving in organizations (Nickerson and Zenger, 2004), it bears investigation.”
The Use of Knowledge for Technological Innovation Within Diversified Firms (2007, background): “Generally, behavioral theorists argue for integrating highly interdependent knowledge components (Fleming & Sorenson, 2004) used in design or production within a firm’s hierarchy (Nayyar & Kazanjian, 1993; Nickerson & Zenger, 2004; Simon, 1962).”
Theories of the Firm-Market Boundary (2011, positive): “As Nickerson and Zenger (2004) suggest, with the problem identified, the manager must then design the organization including its use of authority and informal sociality to match the problem.”
Advancing the Human Capital Perspective on Value Creation by Joining Capabilities and Governance Approaches (2015, background): “A promising way to advance the strategic management field is to consider the problem as the unit analysis (Nickerson, Silverman, & Zenger, 2007; Nickerson & Zenger, 2004).”
Cui Bono? The Selective Revealing of Knowledge and Its Implications for Innovative Activity (2013, background): “This would open an avenue to connect our reasoning to the problem-based view of the firm (Nickerson & Zenger, 2004).”
Product Innovation and Educational Diversity in Top and Middle Management Teams (2020, methodology): “The second is to devise processes to solve it (Nickerson and Zenger 2004, Baer et al. 2013, Felin and Zenger 2015).”