Kirsten Foss
CV and Publication List
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Department of Strategy and Management,
Norwegian School of Economics, Hellesvejen 30
NO-5045 Bergen; Norway
Phone:
+ 47 55 959 572
E-mail:
[email protected]
and
Department of Strategy, Management and Globalization,
Copenhagen Business School,
Kilen, Kilevej 2, 2nd floor
2000 Frederiksberg; Denmark.
Phone:
+ 45 3815 2556
E-mail:
[email protected]
Current Positions:
Professor at Department of Strategy and Management, Norwegian School of
Economics and Business.
Associate Professor at the Department of Strategy,
Globalization, Copenhagen Business School (20% position).
Management
and
Educational Background:
1996
Ph.D., Copenhagen Business School (business administration).
1991
M.sc., Copenhagen Business School (business administration).
1987
B.sc., Roskilde University (business administration).
1984
B.sc., Copenhagen University (political science).
Publications:
Articles in Refereed Journals
Kirsten Foss; Nicolai J Foss “Coasian and Modern Property Rights Economics”
Journal of Institutional Economics 11 (2): 391-411 (2015).
Eirik Sjåholm Knudsen; Kirsten Foss “The Effect of Recession on Firm’s
Boundaries”Industrial and Corporate Change, 9.9. (2014).
Kirsten Foss; Nicolai J. Foss; Phillip Christopher Nelll. “MNC Organizational Forms
and Subsidiary Motivation Problems: Controlling Intervention Hazards in the
Network MNC” Journal of International Management 18 (3): 247-259 (2012).
Kirsten Foss; Waymond Rodgers “Enhancing Information Usefulness by Line
Managers’ Involvement in Cross-Unit Activities” Organization Studies 32 (5): 683703 (2011).
Kirsten Foss “How do Economic Crises Impact Firm Boundaries?”European
Management Review 7 (4): 217-227 (2010).
Kirsten Foss; Nicolai J. Foss “Understanding Opportunity Discovery and
Sustainable Advantage; The role of Transaction Costs and Property Rights”.
Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal 2 (3): 191-207 (2008).
Kirsten Foss; Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G Klein. "Original and Derived Judgment: an
Entrepreneurial Theory of Economic Organization," Organization Studies 28 (12): 120 (2007).
Kirsten Foss; Nicolai J. Foss, Peter G Klein, and Sandra Klein: “Entrepreneurship and
the Organization of Heterogeneous Capital,” Journal of Management Studies. 44 (7):
1165-1186 (2007).
Kirsten Foss; Nicolai J. Foss. "Entrepreneurship, Transaction Costs and Resource
Attributes," International Journal of Strategic Change Management 1 (1/2):53-60
(2006).
Kirsten Foss; Nicolai J. Foss and Xosé H. Vázquez. “Tying the Manager’s Hands’:
Constraining Opportunistic Managerial Intervention” The Cambridge Journal of
Economics 30: 797-818 (2006).
Kirsten Foss Nicolai J. Foss. “The Limits to Designed Orders: Authority under
“Distributed Knowledge Conditions,” Review of Austrian Economics 19 (4): 261-274
(2006).
Kirsten Foss; Nicolai J. Foss “Simon on Problem Solving Implications for New
Organisational Forms” International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital 3
(4): 339-356. (2006).
Kirsten Foss; Nicolai J. Foss “Resources and Transaction Costs: How Property
Rights Economics Furthers the Resource-based View” Strategic Management
Journal 26, 6: 541-555. (2005).
Kirsten Foss; Nicolai J. Foss “The Next Step of Evolution of the Resource-based
View: Integration with Transaction Cost Economics” Management Revue 15: 1-16
(2004).
Kirsten Foss; Nicolai J. Foss “Organizing Economic Experiments: The Role of Firms,”
Review of Austrian Economics (2002).
Kirsten Foss; Nicolai J. Foss, Peter Klein and Sandra Klein “Heterogeneous Capital,
Entrepreneurship, and Economic Organization,” Journal des Economistes et des
Etudes Humaine 12: 79-96. (2002).
Kirsten Foss; Nicolai J. Foss. “Assets, Attributes and Ownership,” International
Journal of the Economics of Business 8: 19-37 (2001)
Kirsten Foss. “Organizing Technological Interdependencies: A Coordination
Perspective on the Firm,” Industrial and Corporate Change 10: 151-178 (2001).
Kirsten Foss; Nicolai J. Foss. “Learning in Firms: Knowledge-Based and Property
Rights Perspectives,” European Journal of Economics and Social Systems 14: 119141. (2000).
Kirsten Foss; Nicolai J. Foss. “Theoretical Isolation in Contract Theory: Suppressing
Margins and Entrepreneurship,” The Journal of Economic Methodology 7: 331-339
(2000).
Kirsten Foss. “Transaction Costs and Technological Development: The Case of the
Danish Fruit and Vegetable Industry,” Research Policy 25, 531-547 (1996).
Books and Major Reports
Kirsten Foss “Product Development and Standards; Examples from the Fruit and
Vegetable Industry”. Agricultural and Natural Resources Economics (WPS) 2, 18,
February (SSRN Electronic Library) (1998).
Kirsten Foss “Aspects of the Economics of Technological Paths. Ph.D Thesis.
Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur, (1996).
Kirsten Foss; Jens Frøslev Christensen, Pauline T. Christensen, and Peter Lotz:
Technologisk Service: Tendenser og Udfordringer. Erhversfremmestyrelsen,
København, (1996).
Chapters in Books
Kirsten Foss, Nicolai Foss and Peter G Klein. “Managerial Authority in the Coasian
Firm: An Entrepreneurial Interpretation.” In a volume edited by Claude Mènard and
Elodie Bertrand, 2016.
Kirsten Foss “ The use of Managerial Authority in the Knowledge Economy” In: The
Modern Firm, Corporate Governance and Investment. Eds. /Per-Olof Bjuggren;
Dennis C. Mueller. Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing, Incorporated:82-103
(2009).
Kirsten Foss; Nicolai J. Foss “Managerial Authority when Knowledge is
Distributed: A Knowledge Governance Perspective”. In: Knowledge Governance:
Processes and Perspectives. . Eds. Nicolai J. Foss; Snejina Michailova. Oxford :
Oxford University Press:108-137 (2009).
Kirsten Foss “Will Modular Products and Organizations Improve Lead-time in Product
Development?” In Designing Organizations. Eds. Richard M. Burton; Bo Eriksen;
Dorte Djøbak Håkonsson; Thorbjørn Knudsen and Charles C. Snow, Springer: 191224 (2008).
Kirsten Foss “Erhvervsøkonomiske grundbegreber,” in Erhvervsøkonomisk Teori.
Eds. Mark Lorenzen, Ivar Friis, and Tamos Vamosi, København: Samfundslitteratur,
(2003).
Kirsten Foss; Nicolai J. Foss. ”Economic Organization and the Trade-Off Between
Destructive and Productive Entrepreneurship,” in Entrepreneurship and the Firm:
Austrian Perspectives on Economic Organization, Eds. Nicolai J Foss and Peter G.
Klein, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, (2002).
Kirsten Foss; Nicolai J. Foss. “The Knowledge-Based Perspective: a View from
Organizational Economics.” In: New Perspectives in Economic Strategy Research.
Eds. Nicolai J Foss and Volker Mahnke, Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2000).
Kirsten Foss; Nicolai Foss “Economic Organization and the Accumulation of RentEarning Assets” In: Resources, Technology and Strategy, Eds. Nicolai J. Foss and
Paul L. Robertson, London: Routledge, (2000).
Kirsten Foss; Nicolai J. Foss. “The Market Process, The Firm, and Property Rights”.
In: The Process of Competition. Ed. Jackie Krafft, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, (1999).
(Also published in a French version on Economia, Paris).
Kirsten Foss; Hanne Harmsen. “Studies of Key factors of Product Development
Success: A Resource-based Critique and Reinterpretation. In: Towards a
Competence Theory of the Firm. Eds. Nicolai J. Foss and Christian Knudsen,
London: Routledge (1996).