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dc.contributor.advisorMoses, Jonathonnb_NO
dc.contributor.authorVik, Josteinnb_NO
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-19T14:24:56Z
dc.date.available2014-12-19T14:24:56Z
dc.date.created2006-12-19nb_NO
dc.date.issued2006nb_NO
dc.identifier126367nb_NO
dc.identifier.isbnISBN-82-471-8206-8nb_NO
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/265033
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation studies three interrelated concepts—power, knowledge, and mobility—in order to understand how knowledge mobility (specificity) affects power in the knowledge economy. To do this, the thesis is divided into two parts. The first part develops a theoretical approach, while the second employs this theoretical approach to different empirical fields. In the first, theoretical, part, the dissertation begins by discussing the different ways that the sundry literatures on power, asset specificity and knowledge types have developed. These literature reviews are used to develop a set of theoretically-deduced expectations in Chapter 5. These chapters contribute to broadening our understanding of the core concepts, especially asset and factor specificity, by explicitly linking them to the notion of knowledge mobility and to configurations of power. The second part of the dissertation interrogates the expectations developed in Chapter 5 across three different venues: a case study of a regime change in a knowledge-intensive consultancy firm; cross-national multivariate statistical assessments on the relationship between specificity, knowledge, and configurations of power; and an historical case study of how the co-working of a set of international institutions—the World Intellectual Property Organization, the International Organization for Standardization, and the World Trade Organization—influences knowledge specificity and mobility. These empirical studies elaborate how knowledge mobility and power are interrelated. The chapters are suggesting that the degree of knowledge mobility may be seen as an element in otherwise well-known, empirical regularities. These sorts of similarities are revealed at all three (firm, national and international) levels. The dissertation employs a broad methodological approach that swaps between analytical levels, alternative operationalizations, methods and causal interpretations. The resulting "montage effect" combines case studies, multivariate regressions, and institutional analyses to create a picture that may be seen as rich representation of a reality. This picture reveals that the specificity and mobility of assets matters for shaping and reshaping configurations of power.nb_NO
dc.languageengnb_NO
dc.publisherFakultet for samfunnsvitenskap og teknologiledelsenb_NO
dc.relation.ispartofseriesDoktoravhandlinger ved NTNU, 1503-8181; 2006:214nb_NO
dc.subjectknowledge managementen_GB
dc.subjectmobilityen_GB
dc.subjectpoweren_GB
dc.subjectasset specificityen_GB
dc.subjectfactor specificityen_GB
dc.subjectknowledge societyen_GB
dc.subjectSOCIAL SCIENCES: Social sciences: Political scienceen_GB
dc.titleKnowledge, Mobility and Configurations of Power: an Asset Specificity Perspective on Power in the Knowledge Societynb_NO
dc.typeDoctoral thesisnb_NO
dc.source.pagenumber253nb_NO
dc.contributor.departmentNorges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet, Fakultet for samfunnsvitenskap og teknologiledelsenb_NO


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