Abstract Total Quality Management (TQM) has become, according to one source,'as
pervasive a part of business thinking as quarterly financial results,'and yet TQM's role as a …

This study surveys a broad spectrum of US manufacturer and service firms to examine the
effect of tacit knowledge transfer on firm innovation capability. The authors present a set of …

The ability to transfer best practices internally is critical to a firm's ability to build competitive
advantage through the appropriation of rents from scarce internal knowledge. Just as a firm's …

Manufacturers around the world have learned much from Japanese manufacturing
techniques. However, any company that wants to compete on knowledge must also learn …

Much of the prior research on interorganizational learning has focused on the role of
absorptive capacity, a firm's ability to value, assimilate, and utilize new external knowledge …

Abstract Knowledge is too problematic a concept to make the task of building a dynamic
knowledge‐based theory of the firm easy. We must also distinguish the theory from the …

While the recent focus on knowledge has undoubtedly benefited organizational studies, the
literature still presents a sharply contrasting and even contradictory view of knowledge …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to examine innovation from a knowledge‐based view
by exploring the effect of knowledge processes and knowledge intensity on innovation …

Much current work on organizational knowledge, intellectual capital, knowledge-creating
organizations, knowledge work, and the like rests on a single, traditional understanding of …

In the business context, we define knowledge as information that is relevant, actionable, and
based at least partially on experience. Knowledge is a subset of information; it is subjective; …