Download or read book Knowledge is the organisation s essential source of competetive advantage written by Martina Jansen and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Psychology - Work, Business, Organisation, grade: 1,3, London School of Economics (Department of Social Psychology), course: Social and Organisational Psychology, language: English, abstract: Introduction*** "The only thing that gives an organization a competitive edge – the only that is sustainable – is what it knows, how it uses what it knows and how fast it can know something knew" (Prusak 1996). Organising knowledge effectively is often discussed as central element of successful organisations. The initial statement – or: hypothesis - emphasizes this perspective. Discussing this hypothesis raises three major questions: 1. Does literature support the perspective of knowledge as key factor for competitiveness? 2. Which role does knowledge actually play in organisational practices and how comes that – despite a general sense of importance and a broad academic discussion – handling knowledge appropriately is not ultimately implemented and cultivated in today's organisations? 3. What needs to be done in order to close this gap between theory and practice? Consequently, this essay goes beyond just "testing" the initial hypothesis by discussing the above raised questions in a structured, three-part approach: A. Situation: Organising knowledge and competitiveness B. Complication: Burdens for organising knowledge effectively C. Concluding solution: Ideas for fostering knowledge management in practice [...]
Download or read book Knowledge is the Organisation s Essential Source of Competetive Advantage written by Martina Jansen and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2009-03 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2009 in the subject Psychology - Work, Business, Organisational and Economic Psychology, grade: 1,3, London School of Economics (Department of Social Psychology), course: Social and Organisational Psychology, 25 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Introduction*** "The only thing that gives an organization a competitive edge - the only that is sustainable - is what it knows, how it uses what it knows and how fast it can know something knew" (Prusak 1996). Organising knowledge effectively is often discussed as central element of successful organisations. The initial statement - or: hypothesis - emphasizes this perspective. Discussing this hypothesis raises three major questions: 1. Does literature support the perspective of knowledge as key factor for competitiveness? 2. Which role does knowledge actually play in organisational practices and how comes that - despite a general sense of importance and a broad academic discussion - handling knowledge appropriately is not ultimately implemented and cultivated in today's organisations? 3. What needs to be done in order to close this gap between theory and practice? Consequently, this essay goes beyond just "testing" the initial hypothesis by discussing the above raised questions in a structured, three-part approach: A. Situation: Organising knowledge and competitiveness B. Complication: Burdens for organising knowledge effectively C. Concluding solution: Ideas for fostering knowledge management in practice [...]
Download or read book Knowledge and knowledge management The resource based view and competitive advantage The contribution of knowledge management to attaining competitive advantage written by Adebusoye Sanni and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2018-01-29 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 61.0, University of South Wales, course: Management Theories and Philosophies, language: English, abstract: Knowledge has been identified as a crucial source of attaining competitive advantage and the creation of value (King and Zeithaml, 2003), and a fundamental component for growth and important criteria for organizations with global interest. Knowledge management is a method of collecting, organizing, and sharing worker intellectual capital all through the organization to guarantee the firm's effectiveness. Kelleher and Levene (2001) sharing knowledge all through the organization to promote current firm's business processes, brings about effective business process and eliminates unnecessary process. The resource based view has advanced to become an important theory in the field of strategy from the 1980's (Wernerfelt, 1984 ; Barney 1991 ; Grant 1991). The resource based view moves concentration of researchers in the field of strategy from external resource to organization's internal resources. It sets up the different types of resources different from other organizations as a crucial sources of advantage amongst rivals (Peteraf, 1993; Barney 1991) and determines different factors that assist organizations to keep up with their superior resource position and competitive advantage (Dierickx and Cool, 1989; Barney 1991; Ghemawat,1986). The necessity for developing competitive advantage over rivals is of top most discussion in strategic management subjects (Rahimli, 2012). Competitive advantage of an organization is said to exist when the resource of an organization is exceptional among other rivalry industries (Kotler and Keller, 2012). This essay will examine more literature in knowledge and knowledge management, the resource based view and competitive advantage and the contribution of knowledge management to attaining competitive advantage.
Download or read book Managing Knowledge for Sustained Competitive Advantage written by Susan E. Jackson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2003-06-03 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eighteenth volume in the Jossey-Bass Organizational Frontiers Series provides an in-depth examination of how I/O psychologists can help find, recruit, and manage knowledge. The authors explain the nature of different types of knowledge, how knowledge-based competition is affecting organizations, and how these ideas relate to innovation and learning in organizations. They describe the strategies and organizational structures and designs that facilitate the acquisition and development of knowledge. And they discuss how continuous knowledge acquisition and innovation is promoted among individuals and teams and how to foster the creation of new knowledge. In addition, they explain how to assess the climate and culture for organizational learning, measure and monitor knowledge resources at the organizational level, and more.
Download or read book Organizational Learning and Competitive Advantage written by Bertrand Moingeon and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1996-08-13 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `[I}n this volume, contributors from the fields of both strategic management and organizational behaviour have been brought together to explore the relationship between organizational learning and competitive advantage.... In their editorial introduction, Edmonson and Moingeon trace changes within the fields of strategy and organizational development that have encouraged a more integrative approach. On the strategy side, the emergence of the "resource view of the firm" has drawn attention to the importance of firm-specific resources including knowledge and how it is acquired, as sources of competitive advantage. On the other hand, organizational development practitioners have become increasingly interested in relating their traditional tasks more firmly to strategic business issues and concerns. The topic of organizational learning can thus be seen as a bridge, which is the intention of this volume to begin constructing, between these two fields.... The papers presented in this book offer a rich variety of concepts, frameworks and provovative ideas on organizational learning and its strategic implications. In addition, the theoretical presentations are often supported by reports of the results of original research in a number of companies′ - Management Learning `This book takes an important first step towards integrating theories of competitive advantage and... organizational learning, a rapprochement which can come none too soon for the management practitioner′ - Peter Senge, Director of the Center for Organizational Learning, MIT Sloan School of Management, USA Organizations need to develop learning strategies to survive and develop in increasingly uncertain and changing markets. In this book, researchers from Europe and the United States explore theories of strategic management and organizational behaviour to establish a link between learning processes and competitive advantage, within a variety of organizational settings. The diverse, multidisciplinary approach takes an important step towards developing a new integrative theory of management.
Download or read book Resource Based View of Knowledge Management for Competitive Advantage in an organization written by Muhammad Adeel and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination Thesis from the year 2016 in the subject Business economics - Information Management, grade: A, International Islamic University Malaysia (GSM), course: Master of Management, language: English, abstract: We are living in the Knowledge era, a new age which is presumably to have a different perspective or point of view and which will involve a new route for doing businesses. Smart and speedy is vital to the success of organizations in increasingly changing set of the knowledge age. The expansion and practice of KM (knowledge management) is dramatically and continuously growing in firms. For reason of development in knowledge management, the speed for acquiring a competitive advantage by means of knowledge grows at faster rate as compared to the past. KM has also been demonstrated for its prospective contribution in creating SCA (sustained competitive advantages) for firms. The accusation that knowledge management might be able to generate SCA (sustained competitive advantage) for organizations is provoking; working in this field is relatively underdeveloped, both theoretically and empirically. The recent studies on competitive advantage and knowledge management have stressed description, rather than empirical research knowledge management could achieve to such an advantage. A possible or potential infrastructure for expanding the conceptual analysis of knowledge management’s impacts on firm's CA (competitive advantage) is the RBV (resource-based view) of the organization which relates the CA of firms with capabilities and resources that are difficult to imitate and firm-specific. The RBV is recently the commanding theoretical view in strategic management published literature, and it concerns with expensive attributes of an organization which are viewed as the basic pillars of SA (competitive advantage). In RBV (resource-based view), knowledge is viewed as a strategic benefit or asset with the outcome potential to be a source of SCA (sustainable competitive advantage) for a company. The RBV of the organization extends and builds upon the resource-based theory of the organization. It originally developed by Penrose (1959) and enlarged by others (Alavi and Leidner 2001). It encircles the aspects and features to knowledge combination or integration and the four initial method by which knowledge is arranged.
Download or read book Knowledge Management and Competitive Advantage Issues and Potential Solutions written by Chilton, Michael A. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines current research in support of knowledge management by focusing on how knowledge resources can be used to create and sustain competitive advantages, combining imitation and innovation theories"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book Knowledge Management For 1 Competitive Advantage written by Harish Chandra Chaudhary and published by Excel Books India. This book was released on 2005-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aims to study the importance of knowledge management in organizations. This work reviews and presents the state of knowledge management.
Download or read book Knowledge Management for Competitive Advantage During Economic Crisis written by Ordoñez de Pablos, Patricia and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strategy management has always been a crucial business aspect that a company must understand to remain successful in the business world. However, there are a number of different approaches that a company can employ in order to differentiate themselves from the competition. Knowledge Management for Competitive Advantage During Economic Crisis brings together the various approaches that affect the superiority of a companys organizational performance and the gains they can make over their competitors. By focusing on concepts such as organizational learning and intellectual capital, this book is an indispensable reference source for researchers, practitioners, graduate students, and business managers interested in understanding what approaches are necessary to ensure superior organizational performance.
Download or read book The Competitive Advantage of Nations written by Michael E. Porter and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing Knowledge written by Stephen Little and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knowledge management is crucial to organizational learning, innovation and success within organizations. The Second Edition of the successful knowledge management reader provides a core source of key theoretical thinkers in the field and presents the most up-to-date leading-edge articles that explore emerging trends. A comprehensive introduction places these readings in context and draws together key strands across the field. The new reader includes new and revised chapters as well as newly authored material, to provide students with a current resource that enables the study of knowledge management from a variety of perspectives. Theoretical work and engaging case studies place knowledge management in the context of an emerging global economy.
Download or read book Economic Value Added for Competitive Advantage written by Saurabh Sri and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic Value Added (EVA®) has been a much discussed concept that has assisted in the turnaround of a number of multinational enterprises across the world. It is based upon the theory of ‘economic profit’ that enables companies to capture and create wealth both for themselves and their stakeholders. The strategic decisions of performance and posturing can be grounded upon gaining competitive advantage through mapping economic profits. Existing studies on competitive advantage primarily discuss the meaning, definitions, and sources thereof. However, there are few contributions that discuss how competitive advantage can be measured specifically with respect to Indian companies. This book bridges that gap and advocates that the EVA® can be used to measure and establish the competitive advantage for Indian firms. It is based upon an in-depth study of such companies to explore the extent of use of EVA® in the top BT500 companies in India. It shows that the companies that use EVA® have a distinct competitive advantage over their competitors.
Download or read book Knowledge Management written by Kevin C. Desouza and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by experienced Knowledge Management (KM) project leaders and teachers, this new textbook has been designed to introduce this growing, multi-disciplinary subject to students in an engaging and effective manner. The book balances the theory and practice of KM and considers the issues organizations encounter in the global marketplace. This book is the first to integrate social media and networking into KM practice.The book’s nine chapters are divided into three major parts:- Part I covers foundational concepts and introduces the reader to the key elements of knowledge management.- Part II explores critical activities of knowledge management.- Part III offers a strategic view of knowledge management in organizations.Each chapter provides a broad overview, graphics that help readers visualize key points, and several vignettes documenting case scenarios that will help the reader digest concepts.Readership: Lecturers and iteachers who have been forced to design courses around KM business texts and anyone who needs to better understand KM to apply it in his or her organization.
Download or read book Creating Value with Knowledge written by Eric Lesser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mid-1990s saw the rise of an important movement: a recognition that organizational knowledge, in its various forms and attributes, could be an important source of competitive advantage in the marketplace. Knowledge management has become one of the core competencies in today's competitive environment, where so much value in companies resides in their people, systems, and processes. Creating Value with Knowledge: Insights from the IBM Institute for Knowledge-based Organization examines a variety of important knowledge-related topics, some of which has been previously published in such journals as the Harvard Business Review, the California Management Review, and the Sloan Management Review, such as the use of informal networks, communities of practice, the impact of knowledge on successful alliances, social capital and trust, narrative and storytelling and the use of human intermediaries in the knowledge management process. It includes contributions from such leading thinkers as Lawrence Prusak, Dorothy Leonard, Eric Lesser, Rob Cross, and David Snowden. This book synthesizes some of the best thinking by the IBM Institute for Knowledge-Based Organizations, a think tank whose research agenda focuses on the management methods for deriving tangible business value from knowledge management and their real-world application.
Download or read book Sticky Knowledge written by Gabriel Szulanski and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002-12-03 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why don′t best practices spread within firms? What exactly is sticky knowledge? Having recognized that knowledge assets are rapidly becoming their most precious source of competitive advantage, a large number of organizations are now attempting to transfer best practices. Yet best practices still remain stubbornly immobile. Sticky Knowledge reveals that the transfer of practices is a complex phenomenon, and demonstrates the range of barriers to transferring best practices within the firm. Written in a brief and accessible format, Gabriel Szulanski defines the popular concept of stickiness and its operationalization, providing a roadmap for understanding and further researching this topical issue. Taking a fresh look at accepted wisdom, and presenting research findings that conflict with some established views, the book will be essential reading for academics and students addressing issues related to knowledge and the firm. Practising managers and MBA students will also find it of immense value.
Download or read book Knowledge Innovation and Sustainable Development in Organizations written by Marta Peris-Ortiz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the ways in which knowledge and innovation impact business and economic sustainability, offering a wide-ranging and richly illustrated study of knowledge, innovation and sustainability of organizations from a dynamic capabilities perspective. In organizational theory, dynamic capability is defined as an organization’s ability to react and adapt adequately and rapidly to external change. In today’s global economy, pursuing sustainable strategies and practices is critical to organizational success. Complying with externally and internally imposed sustainability targets might initially appear as a restriction for organizations; however, they can be transformed into a new set of opportunities. This means that the classic ways in which management absorbs the experiences associated with evolving conditions, organizational frameworks and markets must be reconsidered in light of the preservation of the technological, environmental and social ecosystems. Featuring research and case studies from sectors such as NGOs, SMEs, education and agriculture, this book offers students, academics, practitioners and policymakers a multi-faceted understanding of how and why knowledge, innovation and sustainability are intricately linked—and offers insight into best practices that balance organizational and societal needs.
Download or read book Knowledge Creation written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creation and management of knowledge has become a central concern to business and management, both as a source of value and as an opportunity to achieve and sustain competitive advantage. This new book brings together leading thinkers in the area of knowledge and innovation management in a state of the art collection of studies in this field.
