This article addresses the emergence of networks of practice and the role of knowledge sharing via knowledge portals …. Its focus is on factors that stimulate the successful emergence of networks of practice. Literature on knowledge … management and communities of practice suggest the preexistence of shared knowledge or a shared believe system as a condition …

speed of accumulation of the acquired scientific knowledge regarding absorptive capacity. To contribute to narrowing this …

Research evidence confirms that the accumulation of knowledge contributes to the competitive advantage of firms. In the … strategy consulting industry, one of the most knowledge-intensive professional services industries, however, established firms … that exploited their knowledge accumulation by adding exploitative consulting practices have found their performance has …

Managing through projects has become important for generating new knowledge to cope with technological and market … discontinuities. This paper examines how the fit between the creation of technological and market knowledge and important project … knowledge contributed to the failure of those NBD-projects that required new market knowledge as well. The findings indicate …

The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship seeks to explain the sources of entrepreneurship and its … that a high rate of entrepreneurship facilitates the process of turning knowledge into innovative products while it has no … effect on the relation between knowledge and imitative products. We use European country-level data to test our propositions …

understanding. Two problems and solutions in the transfer of knowledge, especially to small firms, are identified and discussed …. There is a problem not only of expressing tacit knowledge, but also of absorbing new knowledge when it needs to replace … existing tacit knowledge. Next to issues of learning or competence development there are also issues of governance, in the …

. Managerial capabilities for innovation deal with cognitive elements such as the capacity to absorb knowledge, create …-utilization of available knowledge stemming from technological innovations, managerial and organizational determinants of innovation … management and organization determinants of absorption of knowledge and its successful application (administrative innovation …

Although informal networks are often emphasized as facilitating knowledge transfer, we use network data obtained from a … multi-unit high-tech firm to show that the formal network also significantly contributes to inter-unit knowledge transfer …. Individuals centrally placed in a network are, in addition, more involved in knowledge transfer, especially, the evidence suggests …

. Based on a desire to overcome the knowledge paradox between fundamental research and market needs and on the recognition …