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Knowledge Worker Tools

Knowledge Worker Tools

In the knowledge society the value-creating strategies and long-term viability of a firm depends on sustaining its competitive advantage. The resource-based view of competitive advantage suggests that organizations with valuable, unique and non-substitutable resources gain sustainable competitive advantage and superior performance (Moustaghfir, 2008; Zhang, 2007). Such firms can achieve these capabilities by developing new products […]

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KM and Outsourcing Possibilities

Knowledge Management and Outsourcing Possibilities: Conflicting Strategies?

Knowledge management (KM) refers to the process of exploring all the capabilities of knowledge resources (Sabherwal & Sabherwal, 2005) or as a combination of knowledge and processes (Regan & O’Connor, 2002). These processes can help a firm improve its performance and effectiveness by employing purposefully designed strategies for creating, identifying, collecting, organizing, and sharing knowledge. […]

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Knowledge Management

Knowledge-Based View of the Firm and Knowledge Management Systems

            The creation of a global society with possibilities of knowledge sharing is among the contributions of the IT revolution and globalization. In the knowledge society, the value-creating strategies and long-term viability of a firm depend on sustaining its competitive advantage. The knowledge-based view of the firm draws upon the resourced-based view (Levitas & Ndofor, […]