Publisher: Oxford University, 2002, 748 pages
ISBN: 0-19-513866-X
Keywords: Knowledge Management, Strategy
How do organizations create knowledge and intellectual capital? How can organizations manage the accumulation and flow of knowledge and intellectual capital to sustain competitive advantage? What conceptual principles and action levers constitute a knowledge-based strategy of the firm? These are some of the key questions that are answered by The Strategic Management of Intellectual Capital and Organizational Knowledge.
Strategic management is concerned with understanding the causes and forces that explain performance differences between organizations. One approach analyzes industry structures as external determinants of competitive performance. An alternative view focuses on internal competencies and resources as the engine of superior achievement. In this view, organizational capabilities are bundles of physical assets, human know-how, and organizational routines that have evolved uniquely in each organization. In this book intellectaul capital is defined as the firm's knowledge base which includes the expertise and experience of individuals, the routines and processes that define the distinctive way of doing things inside the organization, as well as the knowledge of customer needs and supplier strengths. To the extent that the knowledge and capabilities are unique and difficult to imitate, they confer sustainable competitive advantage on the firm. This book brings together a compilation of classic selections as well as new perspectives that collectively articulate a knowledge-based view of strategy management.
The editors brings together a collection of the preeminent thinkers in strategy and knowledge management with contributors from 11 countries: Britain, Canada, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. This unique text creates an intellectual breadth and diversified collection that points to the energy and momentum driving this work. Each of the 74 authors is recognized to have completed important work in this field, and several individuals' contributions are seminal in defining the scope and direction of knowledge and intellectual capital management.
An extensive collection of articles about different fields and viewpoints in KM.
Unfortunately, it is too much, and extremely boring.
Only for the dedicated theorists or if you need to have a reference work handy, absolutely not a piece you read for the fun of it.
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