The aim of this paper is to add new findings to the knowledge based view of the firm, where the cross-learning ability …, especially in the present knowledge-based economy, where the necessity to respond effectively to frequent external shock (demand … in the determination of firm's performance is presented. Secondly, a missing ring in the knowledge based view of the firm …

Technological knowledge is often claimed to be context-bound and sticking to local surroundings. This paper … investigates how technological knowledge can be exchanged in international subcontractor relationships, using relationship …

information technology should not be regarded as a potential substitute for human skills and tacit knowledge. Instead, its main … role should be to support the formation and use of tacit knowledge. In the paper we compare two stylised models of the … tacit knowledge, while the American model is driven by a permanent urge to reduce the importance of tacit knowledge and to …

distinctive knowledge base means that adopting another nation's methods will depend on local learning involving trial and error …

intense knowledge exchange, network building and idea generation can thus be seen as temporary clusters. The present paper … claimed, lies in the restrictions imposed upon economic activity when knowledge and ideas are transformed into valuable … products and services. The paper sheds new light on how interaction among firms in current clusters coincides with knowledge …

new knowledge by using exploitation mechanisms in order to maintain technological options and variety, inducing innovation … paradigmatic approaches. We will argue that the role of technological policies and their design are contingent on whether knowledge …, we will define two broad kinds of cooperative policy : one (pre-paradigmatic) devoted to create radically new knowledge …

corporate capacity to strike a favorable balance between the production and the exploitation of new knowledge. This argument is …

agents' capability to transform general knowledge into specific one using their stock of competencies and dynamic assets … technological, organizational and market knowledge and in the development of formal and informal mechanisms to facilitate its … "competencies", transform generic knowledge into specific knowledge and, therefore, innovate. It aims at analyzing the knowledge of …