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Knowledge transfer: a basis for competitive advantage in firms
Linda Argote,Paul Ingram +1 more
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In this article, the authors argue that the creation and transfer of knowledge are a basis for competitive advantage in firms, and they build on a framework of knowledge reservoirs to identify the kinds of knowledge that are most difficult to transfer to different contexts.About:
This article is published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.The article was published on 2000-05-01. It has received 3838 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Knowledge transfer & Knowledge value chain.read more
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Social Capital, Networks, and Knowledge Transfer
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how social capital dimensions of networks affect the transfer of knowledge between network members and propose a set of conditions that promote knowledge transfer for the different network types.
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Network Structure and Knowledge Transfer: The Effects of Cohesion and Range:
Ray Reagans,Bill McEvily +1 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that social cohesion around a relationship affects the willingness and motivation of individuals to invest time, energy, and effort in sharing knowledge with others and that the network range, ties to different knowledge pools, increases a person's ability to convey complex ideas to heterogeneous audiences.
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Transferring, Translating, and Transforming: An Integrative Framework for Managing Knowledge Across Boundaries
TL;DR: The paper examines managing knowledge across boundaries in settings where innovation is desired and how this relates to the common knowledge that actors use to share and assess each other's domain-specific knowledge.
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What's the difference? Diversity constructs as separation, variety, or disparity in organizations.
TL;DR: The authors describe three distinctive types of diversity: separation, variety, and disparity, and present guidelines for conceptualization, measurement, and theory testing, highlighting the special case of demographic diversity.
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Human resources and the resource based view of the firm
TL;DR: The impact of the resource-based view on the theoretical and empirical development of strategic human resource management (SHRM) has been explored in this article, where the fields of strategy and SHRM are beginning to converge around a number of issues.
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Absorptive capacity: a new perspective on learning and innovation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that the ability of a firm to recognize the value of new, external information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends is critical to its innovative capabilities.
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Dynamic capabilities and strategic management
TL;DR: The dynamic capabilities framework as mentioned in this paper analyzes the sources and methods of wealth creation and capture by private enterprise firms operating in environments of rapid technological change, and suggests that private wealth creation in regimes of rapid technology change depends in large measure on honing intemal technological, organizational, and managerial processes inside the firm.
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An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an evolutionary theory of the capabilities and behavior of business firms operating in a market environment, including both general discussion and the manipulation of specific simulation models consistent with that theory.
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The Knowledge Creating Company
TL;DR: The Japanese companies, masters of manufacturing, have also been leaders in the creation, management, and use of knowledge-especially the tacit and often subjective insights, intuitions, and ideas of employees as discussed by the authors.
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Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition.
Steven B. Andrews,Ronald S. Burt +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, structural holes are defined as network gaps between players which create entrepreneurial opportunities for information access, timing, referrals, and for control, and the structural holes also generate control benefits giving certain players an advantage in negotiating their relationships.