Access and utilization of knowledge as in alliances drives firm performance. Prior studies pay heavy attention on knowledge absorption and knowledge transfer among firms, but less on the multifaceted and context dependent construct of mutual knowledge creation among firms in alliances. This...

Methodological individualism is the doctrine that economic or social phenomena are ultimately grounded in individual knowing and choice. Recently numerous collective concepts have been introduced into our thinking about the firm - absorptive capacity, communities of practice, dynamic...

This paper has as objective to approach the theme "Microeconomics of Knowledge" and having the African case as reference. We concluded that, in general analysis, South Africa and Tunisia are the countries of the selected with better performance in microeconomics of knowledge, and Angola, Chad...

This paper aims at reconsidering knowledge, skills and competencies from a capability perspective while addressing firms' strategic response. This is a one of recent attempts in addressing capabilities from a two dimensional form. Identifying nature of capabilities (knowledge, skills and...