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Rethinking Strategy and Implementation of Knowledge Management from Innovation Perspective: A Lesson Learned from a Multinational Subsidiary in Indonesia

Amalia, Mirta; Nugroho, Yanuar - Manchester Business School - 2010

Facing unprecedented challenges and opportunities ahead in the knowledge economy, managing knowledge has been a priority for many organisations. Knowledge Management (KM) emerges and has quickly gained weight in research both from information systems perspective and management sciences. An amply...

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Knowledge, Understanding and the Dynamics of Medical Innovation

Ramlogan, Ronnie; Consoli, David - Manchester Business School - 2008

This paper investigates the processes by which scientific knowledge is created andlegitimized. It focuses on scientific developments in a branch of medicine and exploresthe pathways through which the growth of knowledge enables advances in medicalscience and in clinical practice. This work draws...

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Localized Appropriability: Pecuniary Externalities in Knowledge Exploitation

Antonelli, Cristiano - Manchester Business School - 2008

Pecuniary externalities are crucial in shaping the strategies to value the distinctivecompetences and the economic success of innovative firms. The analysis of conditions forlocalized knowledge appropriation and exploitation makes it possible to identify idiosyncratic production factors....

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Scope, Strategy and Structure: The Dynamics ofKnowledge Networks in Medicine

Consoli, Davide; Ramlogan, Ronnie - Manchester Business School - 2009

AbstractThe objective of this paper is to analyse the dynamics of networks in which new knowledgeemerges and through which it is exchanged. Our conjecture is that the structure of a networkcannot be divorced from the dynamics of the knowledge underpinning its activities. In so doing welook...

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Innovation Patterns under the Magnifying Glass.Firm-level latent class analysis of innovation activities in services

Trigo, Alexandre - Manchester Business School - 2005

Innovation is still an obscure concept although many efforts have been made to improve the understanding and measurement of it. The growth of service activities throughout the economy has encouraged scholars, policy makers and executives to explore the determinants and features of the innovation...

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Conceptual foundations of innovation systems

Bateria, Jorge - Manchester Business School - 2009

“Production” and “transfer” of knowledge, and the role of institutions, are two major conceptual tenets of Innovation Systems (IS) literature, which flourished in the evolutionary stream of economics since the eighties of last century. Building on results of different disciplines, the...

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Information, Learning and ICT supported Decision-making

Antonacopoulou, Elena; Papamichail, Nadia - Manchester Business School - 2002

In recent years notions like the ‘learning society’, ‘knowledge economy’, ‘information society’ have populated … management and organisation debates, particularly as knowledge and learning are increasingly promoted as the new sources of … efforts to ‘manage’ knowledge and support organisational and individual learning to meet strategic objectives.... …

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Competence Development in Multinational Companies: Careers, capabilities and institutional frameworks

Whitley, Richard - Manchester Business School - 2002

Building on the work of Penrose (1959), Richardson (1960; 1972) and others, recent contributions to the theory of the firm have emphasised the importance of endogenously developed capabilities and competences for building sustained competitive advantages (see, for example, Foss and Knudsen, 1996)....

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The Governance of Knowledge in Academic Spin-offs

Rizzo, Ugo - Manchester Business School - 2010

The aim of the present work is to study the evolution of organizational knowledge within Academic Spin-off (ASO) firms throughout their life cycle. The exploitation of tacit and indivisible new knowledge developed in the context of academic institutions entails agency problems of different...

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Out of Sight: Problem Sequences and Epistemic Boundaries of Medical Know-How on Glaucoma

Consoli, Davide; Ramlogan, Ronnie - Manchester Business School - 2008

This paper analyses the process of knowledge growth in a branch of medical science. Our study of scientific advances in glaucoma research is organized in two parts. In the first we present a qualitative overview of the problem sequences that have characterized 150 years of medical research in...

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