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Knowledge management in a global setting: a critique of knowledge transfer and the role of knowledge workers
Konstantinou, Efrosyni - 2008
As a form of expert labour and organizational resource, knowledge workers are important in organizational life as producers and consumers of knowledge. The role of knowledge workers and the ways in which they transfer their knowledge become important as they possess the symbolic and analytic...
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Knowledge Codification and Endogenous Growth Theory
Schneider, Maik T. - 2007
Wissenskodifizierung als Mittel zum intergenerationalen Wissenstransfer berücksichtigt. Es werden hinreichende Bedingungen identifiziert … unternommen werden, insbesondere von privaten Firmen im Rahmen von Wissensmanagement-Aktivitäten.Der erste von drei Teilender … Modell kann der Wissenstransfer durch kostenträchtige Wissenskodifizierung verbessert werden. Obwohl Wissenskodifizierung …
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Expanding the explanatory powers of agency theory for the knowledge economy: Implications for enterprise integration systems and knowledge workers
Wickramasinghe, N - 2006
Researchers have questioned whether the new knowledge economy is fundamentally different from the social and economic contexts of the 19th and 20th centuries (Webster, 2002). Some argue that classic economic theories still apply with equal relevance; while others claim that we are in the midst of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009481843
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There is a link between work life balance culture and strategic competitive advantage
Bradley, Lisa M.; Royer, Susanne; Eckardt, Farida - 2008
-specific human resources. The paper argues that a workplace culture supportive of employees balancing their work and non-work lives … the development of firm specific resources – such as developing certain intra-organisational competencies or idiosyncratic … technical competencies. This greater level of firm specific resources then enables the firm to have a stronger competitive …
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Business strategy, human resources, labour market flexibility, and competitive advantage
Michie, Jonathan; Sheehan, Maura - 2005
This paper contributes to the strategic human resource management literature by testing the three main approaches - the universalistic ('best practice'), contingency and configurational - against an original database. Specifically, we examine: (1) the relationship between HR and firm...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441568
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MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS IN CHINA: INSTITUTIONAL AND STRATEGIC PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AND INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
Kim, Sunghoon - 2008
The dissertation is composed of three separate essays. The first essay critically reviews the current status of strategic human resource management (SHRM) research. I argue that the research to date in this field is built upon several assumptions whose validity may not endure beyond the borders...
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Strategy, profits & ethics: Beyond the work of miles
Galbreath, Jeremy - 2006
A prominent feature of the management ? and increasingly marketing ? literature is offering normative prescriptions to corporate strategists for maximizing profits. However, with few exceptions, the ethicality of various profit making strategies has not been analysed or debated. Building upon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009434952
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The effects of sensing and seizing of market opportunities and reconfiguring activities on the organisational resource base
Lings, Ian; Wilden, Ralf; Gudergan, Siegfried - 2009
This study has important implications for marketing theory and practice. In an era of turbulent market environments, the organisational ability to sense and seize market opportunities and to reconfigure the resource base accordingly, has significant effects on performance. This paper uses a...
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Towards a model of dynamic capabilities in innovation-based competitive strategy : insights from project-oriented service firms
Salunke, Sandeep; Weerawardena, Jay; McColl-Kennedy, … - 2011
With the growing significance of services in most developed economies, there is an increased interest in the role of service innovation in service firm competitive strategy. Despite growing literature on service innovation, it remains fragmented reflecting the need for a model that captures key...
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A capability model to improve infrastructure asset performance
Too, Eric G. - 2011
Infrastructure organizations are operating in an increasingly challenging business environment as a result of globalization, privatization and deregulation. In an external business environment that is constantly changing, extant literature on strategic management advocates the need to focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438210