Tag Archives: isolating mechanisms

Distributed Knowledge

Distributed knowledge resists imitation

Among strategy researchers, Jeffrey Dyer has done one of the cleanest jobs of putting isolating mechanisms under the microscope. Jeff started his investigations of Japanese automobile makers when he was a doctoral student at UCLA, working under the direction of Full entry→

Causal Ambiguity– A Barrier to Imitation

Uncertain imitability explains most stylized facts about industry

In 1982, Steven Lippman and I offered a very general logical answer to the puzzle of sustained differences in efficiency or effectiveness. Our theory—uncertain imitability—argued that the inability to understand and explain the sources of efficiency differences is precisely what Full entry→