Managing Articulated Knowledge in Competence-based Competition
Author: Ron Sanchez
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Published: 1995
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Strategic Learning and Knowledge Management
Author: Ron Sanchez
Publisher:
Published: 1997-02-12
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccordingly, this volume also examines processes within firms that improve both the creation and application of new knowledge in competitive and cooperative interactions between organizations. Strategic Learning and Knowledge Management challenges many notions prevalent in current discussions of knowledge and learning, such as the strategic value of 'tacit knowledge' and the need to rely primarily on internal learning processes. Using case studies from American and European companies, the contributors bring you up to date with current thinking about managing strategically important knowledge in organizations.
Rethinking Strategy
Author: Henk W Volberda
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2001-01-09
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1412933757
DOWNLOAD EBOOK`Readers interest in an overview of important aspects of the strategy field will find this book a helpful volume to add to their shelves′ - Administrative Sciences Quarterly This is a new overview of the strategy field, with internationally renowned contributors summarizing the latest directions and developments in strategic management theory in the context of their theoretical roots in economics, organization theory, and systems theory. The contributors outline the most promising new directions on the basis of a systemic treatment of paradigms or schools of thought in strategy: redrawing firm boundaries, developing dynamic capabilities and discovering viable strategy configurations. The volume will be an invaluable companion to advanced courses in strategy and management, used as a reader alongside case material and field studies. As well as providing a summary and evaluation of the different schools of thought in strategy, the volume offers a synthesis of the American and European approaches.
Strategic Learning in a Knowledge Economy
Author: Robert L Cross
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-11-03
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1136362932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStrategic Learning in a Knowledge Economy defines unique and powerful ways that organizations can foster learning at the individual, group and organizational levels, a capability critical to both strategic objectives and business performance. The book explains how individuals and organizations learn, clarifying cognitive and social aspects of the topic. Readers will understand how learning enables organizations and individuals to better create, assimilate, and transfer knowledge. Strategic Learning in a Knowledge Economy helps managers create individual and collective processes that maximize the quality of the knowledge created and learned and ensures this knowledge is effectively used. The book appropriately redefines the frequently narrow and technology-oriented view of learning and explains how an effective learning strategy ensures that a broad base of employees learn and implement vital organizational lessons. Strategic Learning in a Knowledge Economy features focused discussions of organizational core competencies, learning and innovation, communities of practice, assessing organizational learning capabilities, and other important learning topics. This authoritative compendium helps readers master organizational issues crucial in today's knowledge economy by:
Competence Perspectives on Learning and Dynamic Capabilities
Author: Aimé Heene
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Published: 2008-02-04
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1849505209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores how organizational competence and dynamic capabilities can support the competitive position of a firm. This book describes strategic, organizational, and behavioral perspectives on processes of competence development.
Knowledge Spillovers and Knowledge Management
Author: Charlie Karlsson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9781781958605
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book highlights a number of issues at the leading edge of both research and policy making, such as knowledge generation/production, knowledge distribution/transfer, knowledge spillovers, learning, knowledge management, information logistics, industrial clusters, industrial networks and regional innovation systems. This book will appeal to academics and researchers of knowledge management, technology and innovation and industrial organisation. Policy makers and planners in international organisations, national and regional governments - in particular those dealing with R & D policies, industrial policies and regional policies - will also find much to engage them.
Competence, Governance, and Entrepreneurship
Author: Nicolai J. Foss
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780199259816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume brings together prominent voices on competence, governance, and entrepreneurship to advance and stimulate economic strategy research. By pooling and mobilizing intellectual resources of both competence and governance perspectives, the contributions show that an innovative joint venture between these two main perspectives can lead to a new avenue of future research on strategic issues such as 'corporate growth', 'interfirm cooperation', and 'corporate entrepreneurship.'
From Knowledge Management To Strategic Competence: Measuring Technological, Market And Organizational Innovation
Author: Joe Tidd
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2000-04-18
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1783261935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLatest Edition: From Knowledge Management to Strategic Competence: Assessing Technological, Market and Organisational Innovation (3rd Edition)The business and academic communities pay much interest to the concept of knowledge management and strategic competencies or core capabilities; that is, how organizations define and differentiate themselves. This book attempts to establish the links between strategic competencies, knowledge management, organizational learning and innovation management — specifically, how an organization identifies, assesses and exploits its competencies, and translates these into new processes, products and services.The contributors to the book include leading researchers and consultants in the field. Adopting a practical but rigorous approach to the subject, they focus on the measurement, management and improvement of organizational, technological and market competencies, and identify the relationships with strategic, operational and financial performance.
The Essentials of Knowledge Management
Author: John S. Edwards
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-29
Total Pages: 374
ISBN-13: 1137552107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book reviews the field of Knowledge Management, taking a holistic approach that includes both "soft" and "hard" aspects. It provides a broad perspective on the field, rather than one based on a single viewpoints from Computer Science or Organizational Learning, offering a comprehensive and integrated conception of Knowledge Management. The chapters represent the best Knowledge Management articles published in the 21st century in Knowledge Management Research & Practice and the European Journal of Information Systems, with contributors including Ikujiro Nonaka, Frada Burstein, and David Schwartz. Most of the chapters contribute significantly to practise as well as theory. The OR Essentials series presents a unique cross-section of high quality research work fundamental to understanding contemporary issues and research across a range of Operational Research topics. It brings together some of the best research papers from the highly respected journals of the Operational Research Society, also published by Palgrave Macmillan.
The Future of Knowledge Management
Author: Birgit Renzl
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-12-15
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 0230371892
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book leading scholars debate current issues and shed light on future prospects in the field of Knowledge Management. It presents new perspectives on knowledge and learning, including modes of knowing in practice, transactive knowledge systems, organizational narrations, and challenges conventional wisdom. It deals with emerging issues in knowledge and innovation embracing models of distributed innovation and forms of co-operation. It also includes problems in managing knowledge, leadership issues and how to measure knowledge.
