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Knowledge-Management Collaboration and Labor Brokerage Performance: A Multilevel Study of Entrepreneurial Market Making

James Downing

Economic and Business Review2026https://doi.org/10.15458/2335-4216.1365article
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Entrepreneurs operating in knowledge-intensive markets will seek to reduce costs with tacit-knowledge-management mechanisms. When seeking a competitive advantage in knowledge-intensive industries, individuals will create value from general market information and engineer the transaction cost for clients. These market-making individuals will operate within a firm to gain benefits from information-sharing collaboration. Firms will make investments in tacit-information sharing to assist individual collaboration, resulting in increased firm performance. The value creation process for knowledge-intensive markets is crafted from general market information. The value appropriation process is unique to knowledge-intensive industries with the engineering of a client’s transaction costs as a competitive advantage. The research develops a schema for the engineering of transaction costs using entrepreneurial market-making efficiencies mapped to the determinants of transaction costs theory. The multilevel econometric model examines both firm-level and individual-level investments in tacit-knowledge management. Results suggest firm-level investments in information sharing may not improve the performance of the individuals in the firm. However, when there is a firm structure and individuals actively share information, then efficiency is created, leading to larger deals and increased firm performance. Future research developing those efficiencies found in knowledge-management strategies is needed. This article also calls for further development and observations of engineering transaction costs, specifically in knowledge-intensive industries.

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@article{james2026,
  title        = {{Knowledge-Management Collaboration and Labor Brokerage Performance: A Multilevel Study of Entrepreneurial Market Making}},
  author       = {James Downing},
  journal      = {Economic and Business Review},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.15458/2335-4216.1365},
}

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