Over the past three decades, scholars have increasingly come to view knowledge as one of
the most important resources necessary for successful organization in the contemporary …

The purpose of this paper is to order and connect different perspectives on the creation and
management of knowledge. Several proposals for the classification of the main approaches …

Role of the knowledge-based resources in promoting sustainability in small and medium
enterprises (SMEs) is currently a topic of debate. Financial literacy has been identified as a …

Scholars of the theory of the firm have begun to emphasize the sources and conditions of
what has been described as “the organizational advantage,” rather than focus on the causes …

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 …

Dr Phil Johnson is Professor of HRM at The School of Management, Sheffield University. He
has undertaken and published research mainly in the areas of epistemology, methodology …

Companion Web Site: http://www. sagepub. co. uk/resources/oleary/oleary. htm The
Essential Guide to Doing Research is a comprehensive, practical, and engaging guide to …

Resource‐based theory has tended to focus on the development and protection of valuable
resources. What determines a valuable resource has received less attention. This paper …

In this article we develop the concept of community-based enterprise (CBE) and argue that it
provides a potential strategy for sustainable local development in poor populations. We …

To improve our understanding of the impact of organizational learning and knowledge on
competitive advantage, we propose a framework that includes the constructs of data …