The resource-based view (RBV) of the firm has been around for over 20 years—during
which time it has been both widely taken up and subjected to considerable criticism. The …

This paper reviews the literature pertaining to the assessment of knowledge assets. Since
knowledge assets are at the crux of sustainable competitive advantage, the burgeoning field …

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 …

This paper develops a resource-based—knowledge-based—theory of the firm. Its thesis is
that the organizational mode through which individuals cooperate affects the knowledge …

Business organizations are coming to view knowledge as their most valuable and strategic
resource. They are realizing that to remain com-petitive they must explicitly manage their …

Since organizational knowledge is at the crux of sustainable competitive advantage, the
burgeoning field of intellectual capital is an exciting area for both researchers and …

This paper considers the relationship between the stocks and flows of learning across levels
in an overall organizational learning system. A survey instrument based on the Strategic …

Organizational knowledge creation is the process of making available and amplifying
knowledge created by individuals as well as crystallizing and connecting it to an …

For many strategy scholars, organizational economics in general, and transaction-costs
economics in particular, remains a dissatisfying theoretical framework for theorizing about …

There is much interest in organizational knowledge following the recognition of its strategic
place in inter‐firm competition, but there is no adequate theory of such knowledge, or of its …