The growing importance of knowledge-based competition has prompted many firms to build international cooperative … ventures for skills acquisition and knowledge building. Based on an empirical study of a close collaboration in the knowledge … knowledge can impede cross-national collaborative work and knowledge sharing. The paper uses Michael Polanyi's concept of 'tacit …

The purpose of this paper is to show why to build ‘learning organisations’ must be a central element of knowledge … management. The paper argues that the wide use of information technology has a contradictory impact on knowledge management. On … the one hand it extends the potential for codifying knowledge. On the other hand it makes tacit knowledge scarcer and it …

The “knowledge governance approach” is characterized as a distinctive, emerging approach that cuts across the fields of … knowledge management, organisation studies, strategy, and human resource management. Knowledge governance is taken up with how … the deployment of governance mechanisms influences knowledge processes, such as sharing, retaining and creating knowledge …

MNCs and regional innovation systems differ widely in their knowledge generation and dissemination processes. We … findings with existing knowledge and disseminating this internally. Our aim is to develop a framework for conceptualising the … knowledge transfer process between MNCs and regional innovation systems. For that purpose we develop a conceptual model of the …

applications are different (knowledge-accumulation vs contracts and incentives). However, we need to integrate propositions from …

Knowledge and learning are widely regarded as defining features of the modern economy. They are a focus of intense … interactions between the different forms of knowledge: especially codified knowledge (mainly know-what and know-why) and tacit … knowledge (know-how and know-who). This paper extends this approach by arguing that the key vectors of innovation and growth lie …

Knowledge and competence are increasingly regarded as the most critical resources of firms and economies. Much recent … attention has focused, in particular, on the importance of 'tacit knowledge' for sustaining firms’ competitiveness, and its role … in technological innovation and organisational learning. This paper argues that the extent to which tacit knowledge …

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 …