The ability to create knowledge and diffuse it throughout an organization is today recognized
as a major strategic capability for gaining competitive advantage. Scholars and managers …

Ikujiro Nonaka, Georg von Krogh and Kazuo Ichijo introduce the knowledge activist as a
knowledge enabler. A knowledge activist is someone, some group or department that takes …

We examine the implications of virtual customer environments for supporting the innovation
process. By building on the literature of knowledge brokers, we introduce the concept of …

Research summary: While firms tend to build on their own knowledge, we distinguish
between depth and breadth of local search to investigate the drivers of these behaviors …

During the 1990s knowledge management boom, many organizations developed expensive
knowledge management systems before they had a firm grasp of the underlying knowledge …

Knowledge and learning have become the new strategic imperative of organizations.
Recent surveys by The Conference Board and the American Management Association show …

Knowledge integration is the raison d'etre for the existence of the firm (;) and has been
widely studied across many subfields in management and organizational studies. However …

This paper examines how knowledge is integrated in complex technology and product
development settings. By framing the task of knowledge integration as a cycle, we highlight …

Demonstrates how knowledge management can be used to enhance business processes. It
focuses on the need to develop collaborative knowledge networks, which are increasingly …

As a complement to the literature on learning in firms, we investigate learning in markets, a
nascent area of study that focuses on how learning occurs between, rather than within, firms …