Pedro López-Sáez

TL;DR: In this article, an Intellectual Capital-Based View of the Firm Competition framework is proposed to highlight the strategic role of different intangible assets like talented and committed workers, cultural values, or long-term relationships among the firm and its stakeholders in gaining and sustaining competitive advantages.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on breadth and depth as two distinct open search strategies and claim that besides their different benefits in terms of learning and innovation, it is also necessary to consider their costs.

TL;DR: In this paper, an assessment framework for intellectual capital is presented, which can be viewed as a set of valuable assets; difficult to imitate; to replace; to transfer; with a prolonged life expectancy; and with a feasible rent appropriation.

TL;DR: In this article, two empirical tests with firms from the Boston's Route 128 and from Spain, in order to describe their particular and real knowledge creation processes in comparison to the SECI model, reveal that there is no generally and unique way of learning, but knowledge creation seems to be conditioned by context-based considerations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors highlight the importance of knowledge management and organizational learning in firm innovation, offering an integrative framework to understand this complex business phenomenon, and present a general review on "A Knowledge-Based View of Firm Innovation" articulating and integrating a total number of ten theoretical and empirical contributions.