Outsourcing knowledge and innovation activities offer cost savings and superior performance, but can also put a firm … decisions on knowledge process outsourcing (KPO). KPO is a make-or-ally decision, as firms seek a governance structure that will … both protect and leverage their strategic knowledge assets, with the final decision often coming down to a choice between …

literature. Specifically, we suggest that characteristics of the knowledge contained in a firm's inter-organizational network and … circulating among members. Characteristics of a firm's direct contacts describe its knowledge embeddedness and determine its … access to more fine-grained (tacit, complex) knowledge. We propose that the context (e.g. the difficulty of learning from …

The emerging knowledge-based view of the firm offers new insight into the causes and management of interfirm alliances …. However, the development of an effective knowledge-based theory of alliance formation has been inhibited by a simplistic view …' desire to acquire knowledge from one another. We argue that the primary advantage of alliances over both firms and markets is …