Bruce Kogut
Biographic Data
| ID | 258299 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Kogut |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Kogut |
| SIGNATURE | KOGUT B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 147 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Super Mario Meets AI: Experimental Effects of Automation and Skills on Team Performance and Coordination
This article studies the effects of the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) into teams in a laboratory experiment. We randomly assign automated co-workers into “laboratory firms” who are playing a team-based game on the Nintendo Switch console. We demonstrate that even in a task where AI outperforms humans, automation decreases overall team performance and increases coordination failures. These effects are especially large in the short-t…
Political Language in Economics
Does academic writing in economics reflect the political orientation of economists? We use machine learning to measure partisanship in academic economics articles. We predict the observed political behaviour of a subset of economists using phrases from their academic articles, show good out-of-sample predictive accuracy and then predict partisanship for all economists. We then use these predictions to examine patterns of political language in eco…
Executive Compensation, Fat Cats, and Best Athletes
Income gains in the top 1 percent are the primary cause for the rapid growth in U.S. inequality since the late 1970s. Managers and executives of firms account for a large proportion of these top earners. Chief executive officers (CEOs), in particular, have seen their compensation increase faster than the growth in firm size. We propose that changes in the macro patterns of the distribution of CEO compensation resulted from a process of diffusion …
Corporate governance reform: A cri de coeur for two decades
Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Social Science Data
Honesty and Trust: Theory and Experience in the Light of Post-Socialist Transformation
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Economic Organization and Economic Knowledge: Essays in Honour of Brian J. Loasby, Volume I
Journal Article Economic Organization and Economic Knowledge: Essays in Honour of Brian J. Loasby, Volume I Get access Economic Organization and Economic Knowledge: Essays in Honour of Brian J. Loasby, Volume I. Edited by (Sheila C.) Dow and (Peter E.) Earl. (Aldershot and Lyme, NH: Edward Elgar, 1999. Pp. xxiii+302. £59.95 hardback. ISBN 1 85898 725 3.)Contingency, Complexity and the Theory of the Firm: Essays in Honour of Brian J. Loasby, Volum…
The Small World of Germany and the Durability of National Networks
The globalization of financial markets and the concomitant restructuring decisions of firms challenge the historical legacy of national systems of governance. German corporate ownership patterns and restructuring events in the 1990's are examined here in this light. The results show that ownership links among German firms constitute a "small world" that has consequences for understanding mergers and acquisitions. Ownership links form closely-knit…
Did Socialism Fail to Innovate? A Natural Experiment of the Two Zeiss Companies
Two Carl Zeiss companies provide a natural experiment for analyzing the effects of socialist versus market systems on innovation. By analyzing patent records from 1950 to 1990, we trace the technological contributions of Zeiss Jena in the German Democratic Republic and Zeiss Oberkochen in the Federal Republic of Germany. We show that Zeiss Jena gradually developed considerable technological competence, but a deficiency of innovative potential wit…
Making Networks Accountable
University of Pennsylvania and École PolytThe book by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello on the new spirit of capitalism returns to the question that puzzled the social thinkers of an earlier time: How does capitalism manufacture the ideological foundations of social peace, despite its hollow spiritual core and its creation of inequities? Their argument, reminiscent of Gramsci’s, is that capitalism is richly inventive in appropriating cultural syste…
Localization of Knowledge and the Mobility of Engineers in Regional Networks
Knowledge, once generated, spills only imperfectly among firms and nations. We posit that since institutions and labor networks vary by region, there should be regional variations in the localization of spillovers. We investigate the relationship between the mobility of major patent holders and the localization of technological knowledge through the analysis of patent citations of important semiconductor innovations. We find that knowledge locali…
Evolution of the Large Firm in France in Comparative Perspective
International Business: The New Bottom Line
The Exploration of Technological Diversity and Geographic Localization in Innovation: Start-Up Firms in the Semiconductor Industry
What Firms Do? Coordination, Identity, and Learning
Firms are organizations that represent social knowledge of coordination and learning. But why should their boundaries demarcate quantitative shifts in the knowledge and capability of their members? Should not knowledge reside also in a network of interacting firms? This line of questioning presents the challenge to state an alternative view to the “theory of the firm,” a theory that has moved from Coase's early treatment of what firms do to a con…
Platform Investments and Volatile Exchange Rates: Direct Investment in the U.S. by Japanese Electronic Companies
Bruce Kogut, Sea Jin Chang, Platform Investments and Volatile Exchange Rates: Direct Investment in the U.S. by Japanese Electronic Companies, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 78, No. 2 (May, 1996), pp. 221-231
Knowledge and the Speed of the Transfer and Imitation of Organizational Capabilities: An Empirical Test
The capabilities of a firm, or any organization, lie primarily in the organizing principles by which individual and functional expertise is structured, coordinated, and communicated. Firms are social communities which use their relational structure and shared coding schemes to enhance the transfer and communication of new skills and capabilities. To replicate new knowledge in the absence of a social community is difficult. A classic demonstration…
European Business Systems: Firms and Markets in their National Contexts
Introduction - Richard Whitley PART ONE: THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS SYSTEMS Societies, Firms and Markets - Richard Whitley The Social Structuring of Business Systems National Business Recipes - Keijo R[um]as[um]anen and Richard Whipp A Sector Perspective PART TWO: NATIONAL BUSINESS SYSTEMS IN EUROPE Introduction - Richard Whitley European Business Systems - Christel Lane Britain and Germany Compared European Business Systems - Ad van It…
Country Competitiveness: Technology and the Organization of Work
This is a book of contributed chapters, including detailed case studies, which demonstrates that competition, whether among countries or firms, is driven by advantages that cannot easily be imitated or diffused. Cheap labour can be imitated but is not desirable; capital moves easily across borders; new products are copied within a few years. What is difficult to imitate are the organizing practices of work, as applied to the factory, to the firm,…
Country competitiveness: Technology and the Organizing of Work
Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology
How should we understand why firms exist? A prevailing view has been that they serve to keep in check the transaction costs arising from the self-interested motivations of individuals. We develop in this article the argument that what firms do better than markets is the sharing and transfer of the knowledge of individuals and groups within an organization. This knowledge consists of information (e.g., who knows what) and of know-how (e.g., how to…
Technological Capabilities and Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in the United States
This article examines the effect of relative technological capabilities on Japanese direct investment into the United States by looking simultaneously at industry conditions in the two markets. A negative binomial regression model is specified to estimate the effects of R & D capability and industry structure on a count measure of Japanese entries across 297 industries. The results indicate that Japanese direct investment in the United States is …
The Small World of Germany and the Durability of National Networks
The globalization of financial markets and the concomitant restructuring decisions of firms challenge the historical legacy of national systems of governance. German corporate ownership patterns and restructuring events in the 1990's are examined here in this light. The results show that ownership links among German firms constitute a "small world" that has consequences for understanding mergers and acquisitions. Ownership links form closely-knit…
Did Socialism Fail to Innovate? A Natural Experiment of the Two Zeiss Companies
Two Carl Zeiss companies provide a natural experiment for analyzing the effects of socialist versus market systems on innovation. By analyzing patent records from 1950 to 1990, we trace the technological contributions of Zeiss Jena in the German Democratic Republic and Zeiss Oberkochen in the Federal Republic of Germany. We show that Zeiss Jena gradually developed considerable technological competence, but a deficiency of innovative potential wit…
Executive Compensation, Fat Cats, and Best Athletes
Income gains in the top 1 percent are the primary cause for the rapid growth in U.S. inequality since the late 1970s. Managers and executives of firms account for a large proportion of these top earners. Chief executive officers (CEOs), in particular, have seen their compensation increase faster than the growth in firm size. We propose that changes in the macro patterns of the distribution of CEO compensation resulted from a process of diffusion …
European Business Systems: Firms and Markets in their National Contexts
Introduction - Richard Whitley PART ONE: THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS SYSTEMS Societies, Firms and Markets - Richard Whitley The Social Structuring of Business Systems National Business Recipes - Keijo R[um]as[um]anen and Richard Whipp A Sector Perspective PART TWO: NATIONAL BUSINESS SYSTEMS IN EUROPE Introduction - Richard Whitley European Business Systems - Christel Lane Britain and Germany Compared European Business Systems - Ad van It…
Political Language in Economics
Does academic writing in economics reflect the political orientation of economists? We use machine learning to measure partisanship in academic economics articles. We predict the observed political behaviour of a subset of economists using phrases from their academic articles, show good out-of-sample predictive accuracy and then predict partisanship for all economists. We then use these predictions to examine patterns of political language in eco…
Evolution of the Large Firm in France in Comparative Perspective
Technological Capabilities and Japanese Foreign Direct Investment in the United States
This article examines the effect of relative technological capabilities on Japanese direct investment into the United States by looking simultaneously at industry conditions in the two markets. A negative binomial regression model is specified to estimate the effects of R & D capability and industry structure on a count measure of Japanese entries across 297 industries. The results indicate that Japanese direct investment in the United States is …
Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology
How should we understand why firms exist? A prevailing view has been that they serve to keep in check the transaction costs arising from the self-interested motivations of individuals. We develop in this article the argument that what firms do better than markets is the sharing and transfer of the knowledge of individuals and groups within an organization. This knowledge consists of information (e.g., who knows what) and of know-how (e.g., how to…
Country competitiveness: Technology and the Organizing of Work
European Business Systems: Firms and Markets in their National Contexts
Introduction - Richard Whitley PART ONE: THE COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF BUSINESS SYSTEMS Societies, Firms and Markets - Richard Whitley The Social Structuring of Business Systems National Business Recipes - Keijo R[um]as[um]anen and Richard Whipp A Sector Perspective PART TWO: NATIONAL BUSINESS SYSTEMS IN EUROPE Introduction - Richard Whitley European Business Systems - Christel Lane Britain and Germany Compared European Business Systems - Ad van It…
Country Competitiveness: Technology and the Organization of Work
This is a book of contributed chapters, including detailed case studies, which demonstrates that competition, whether among countries or firms, is driven by advantages that cannot easily be imitated or diffused. Cheap labour can be imitated but is not desirable; capital moves easily across borders; new products are copied within a few years. What is difficult to imitate are the organizing practices of work, as applied to the factory, to the firm,…
Knowledge and the Speed of the Transfer and Imitation of Organizational Capabilities: An Empirical Test
The capabilities of a firm, or any organization, lie primarily in the organizing principles by which individual and functional expertise is structured, coordinated, and communicated. Firms are social communities which use their relational structure and shared coding schemes to enhance the transfer and communication of new skills and capabilities. To replicate new knowledge in the absence of a social community is difficult. A classic demonstration…
What Firms Do? Coordination, Identity, and Learning
Firms are organizations that represent social knowledge of coordination and learning. But why should their boundaries demarcate quantitative shifts in the knowledge and capability of their members? Should not knowledge reside also in a network of interacting firms? This line of questioning presents the challenge to state an alternative view to the “theory of the firm,” a theory that has moved from Coase's early treatment of what firms do to a con…
Platform Investments and Volatile Exchange Rates: Direct Investment in the U.S. by Japanese Electronic Companies
Bruce Kogut, Sea Jin Chang, Platform Investments and Volatile Exchange Rates: Direct Investment in the U.S. by Japanese Electronic Companies, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 78, No. 2 (May, 1996), pp. 221-231
The Exploration of Technological Diversity and Geographic Localization in Innovation: Start-Up Firms in the Semiconductor Industry
Evolution of the Large Firm in France in Comparative Perspective
International Business: The New Bottom Line
Localization of Knowledge and the Mobility of Engineers in Regional Networks
Knowledge, once generated, spills only imperfectly among firms and nations. We posit that since institutions and labor networks vary by region, there should be regional variations in the localization of spillovers. We investigate the relationship between the mobility of major patent holders and the localization of technological knowledge through the analysis of patent citations of important semiconductor innovations. We find that knowledge locali…
Did Socialism Fail to Innovate? A Natural Experiment of the Two Zeiss Companies
Two Carl Zeiss companies provide a natural experiment for analyzing the effects of socialist versus market systems on innovation. By analyzing patent records from 1950 to 1990, we trace the technological contributions of Zeiss Jena in the German Democratic Republic and Zeiss Oberkochen in the Federal Republic of Germany. We show that Zeiss Jena gradually developed considerable technological competence, but a deficiency of innovative potential wit…
Making Networks Accountable
University of Pennsylvania and École PolytThe book by Luc Boltanski and Eve Chiapello on the new spirit of capitalism returns to the question that puzzled the social thinkers of an earlier time: How does capitalism manufacture the ideological foundations of social peace, despite its hollow spiritual core and its creation of inequities? Their argument, reminiscent of Gramsci’s, is that capitalism is richly inventive in appropriating cultural syste…
The Small World of Germany and the Durability of National Networks
The globalization of financial markets and the concomitant restructuring decisions of firms challenge the historical legacy of national systems of governance. German corporate ownership patterns and restructuring events in the 1990's are examined here in this light. The results show that ownership links among German firms constitute a "small world" that has consequences for understanding mergers and acquisitions. Ownership links form closely-knit…
Economic Organization and Economic Knowledge: Essays in Honour of Brian J. Loasby, Volume I
Journal Article Economic Organization and Economic Knowledge: Essays in Honour of Brian J. Loasby, Volume I Get access Economic Organization and Economic Knowledge: Essays in Honour of Brian J. Loasby, Volume I. Edited by (Sheila C.) Dow and (Peter E.) Earl. (Aldershot and Lyme, NH: Edward Elgar, 1999. Pp. xxiii+302. £59.95 hardback. ISBN 1 85898 725 3.)Contingency, Complexity and the Theory of the Firm: Essays in Honour of Brian J. Loasby, Volum…
Honesty and Trust: Theory and Experience in the Light of Post-Socialist Transformation
4 ( .. ) 6 .. . : ()12 .. . 9 ()39 ., - . ( .. )
Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Social Science Data
Corporate governance reform: A cri de coeur for two decades
Executive Compensation, Fat Cats, and Best Athletes
Income gains in the top 1 percent are the primary cause for the rapid growth in U.S. inequality since the late 1970s. Managers and executives of firms account for a large proportion of these top earners. Chief executive officers (CEOs), in particular, have seen their compensation increase faster than the growth in firm size. We propose that changes in the macro patterns of the distribution of CEO compensation resulted from a process of diffusion …
Political Language in Economics
Does academic writing in economics reflect the political orientation of economists? We use machine learning to measure partisanship in academic economics articles. We predict the observed political behaviour of a subset of economists using phrases from their academic articles, show good out-of-sample predictive accuracy and then predict partisanship for all economists. We then use these predictions to examine patterns of political language in eco…
Super Mario Meets AI: Experimental Effects of Automation and Skills on Team Performance and Coordination
This article studies the effects of the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) into teams in a laboratory experiment. We randomly assign automated co-workers into “laboratory firms” who are playing a team-based game on the Nintendo Switch console. We demonstrate that even in a task where AI outperforms humans, automation decreases overall team performance and increases coordination failures. These effects are especially large in the short-t…
Business (13 works) · Economics (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Industrial organization (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Knowledge management (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Economic geography (4 works) · Firm Innovation and Growth (4 works)