CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 Introduction: Knowledge, Options, and Institutions -- PART I: KNOWLEDGE, COORDINATION, CATEGORIES, IDENTITY -- 2 Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology -- 3 Knowledge and the Speed of the Transfer and Imitation of Organizational Capabilities: An Empirical Test -- 4 What Firms Do: Coordination, Identity, and Learning -- PART II: VENTURES, VALUE, AND OPTIONS -- 5 Joint Ventures: Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives -- 6 Joint Ventures and the Option to Expand and Acquire -- 7 Operating Flexibility, Global Manufacturing, and the Option Value of a Multinational Network -- 8 Strategy, Heuristics, and Real Options -- PART III: PRACTICES AND INSTITUTIONS: THEIR DIFFUSION AND GEOGRAPHY -- 9 National Systems, Organizational Practices, and Institutions -- 10 Prototypes and Strategy: Assigning Causal Credit Using Fuzzy Sets -- 11 Localization of Knowledge and the Mobility of Engineers in Regional Networks -- 12 Open-Source Software Development and Distributed Innovation -- PART IV: LOOKING FORWARD -- 13 The Network as Knowledge: Generative Rules and the Emergence of Structure -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.