Management Science articles

Recent articles from Management Science

Complex systems--a new paradigm for the integrative study of management, physical, and technological systems.(Author abstract)(Report)
July 1, 2007... Introduction Networks and complex systems have been the subject of a great deal of recent research. In just the last few years, hundreds of scientific papers have been written on systems as diverse as boards of directors, the World Wide Web, cells, power grids, the management and control...

Cooperation in evolving social networks.(Report)
July 1, 2007... 1. Introduction Cooperation is a widely observed feature of human and animal societies (Ostrom et al. 1999, Fehr and Fischbacher 2003), arising even in populations of nonsentient organisms (Boorman and Levitt 1980). Although it manifests itself in many versions, the crux of all...

Bilateral collaboration and the emergence of innovation networks.(Report)
July 1, 2007... 1. Introduction One of the effects of the recent rapid technical advance is a change in the technological structure of many firms. As new technologies have emerged and been integrated into existing products and technology spaces, the need to incorporate many new types of expertise, both...

Patterned interactions in complex systems: implications for exploration.(Report)
July 1, 2007... 1. Introduction How much should an organization invest in the broad exploration of new possibilities? This enduring question arises in a wide array of contexts, including the management of production processes (Abernathy 1978), the search for new technologies (Wheelwright and Clark 1992,...

Membership herding and network stability in the open source community: the Ising perspective.(Report)
July 1, 2007... 1. Introduction In recent years we have witnessed an immense proliferation of open source software (1) (hereafter, OSS) development and a radical shift in paradigm from the traditional software-engineering practice. At the center of this burgeoning phenomenon are the participants--project...