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Nicolai Foss

Professor , PhD
Nicolai Foss

Center for Strategic Management & Globalization

Porcelænshaven 24
2000 Frederiksberg

Room 1.78

Tel.: +45 3815 2562
Fax:+45 3815 3035
E-mail: njf.smg@cbs.dk

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Affiliated with Danish Research Unit for Industrial Dynamics

Nicolai J. Foss' research is mainly concerned with firm strategy and economic organization. He is particularly interested in the intersection between these two fields.

Primary research areas

• The theory of the firm
• Economic organization
• The methodology of the social sciences

Selected publications

• “Value and Transaction Costs: How the Economics of Property Rights Furthers the RBV,” (with Kirsten Foss). Strategic Management Journal 26: 541-553. (2005)
• “Performance Pay, Delegation, and Multitasking Under Uncertainty and Innovativeness: an Empirical Investigation,” (with Keld Laursen) Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 58: 246-276 . (2005)
• Strategy and Organization in the Knowledge Economy, Oxford University Press. (2005)
• “Governing Knowledge Processes in the Multinational Corporation" (with Torben Pedersen), Journal of International Business Studies 35: 339-349 (2004)
• “Selective Intervention and Internal Hybrids: Interpreting and Learning from the Rise and Decline of the Oticon Spaghetti Organization.” Organization Science 14: 331-349 (2003)
• “Herbert Simon’s Grand Theme in the Economics of Organization: “Much Cited and Little Used’,” Journal of Economic Psychology 24: 245-264. (2003)
• New HRM Practice, Complementarities, and the Impact on Innovation Performance” (with Keld Laursen), Cambridge Journal of Economics 27: 243-263. (2003)
• ”The Resource-based Tangle: In Search of Sustainable Foundations,” (with Thorbjørn Knudsen). Managerial and Decision Economics 24: 291-307
• “The Strategic Management and Transaction Cost Nexus: Past Debates, Central Questions, and Future Research Possibilities,” Strategic Organization 1: 139-169
• “Bounded Rationality and Tacit Knowledge in the Organizational Capabilities Approach: an Evaluation and a Stocktaking,” Industrial and Corporate Change 12: 185-201
• “Coase vs Hayek: Economic Organization in the Knowledge Economy,” International Journal of the Economics of Busines 9: 9-36 (2002).