Specialized knowledge-generating jobs comprise close to one fifth of employment and one fourth of the wage bill in … profitability. This suggests that firms use specialized knowledge workers to generate within-firm knowledge and create firm … requires information acquisition by within-firm knowledge workers to develop capabilities beyond those created by management …

Knowledge is now perceived as the basic core of organizations, is becoming more a role in the recognition and … capitalization of entrepreneurial opportunities. A growing number of researches have been show knowledge as basis for creation of new … organizations. This study aims to evidence the role played by knowledge intensive businesses services (KIBS) today and to highlight …

technologically. We scrutinize to what extent organizations acquire external knowledge by accessing external knowledge repositories …. We argue that professional service firms (PSFs) grant access to non-localized knowledge repositories and thereby not only … a unique dataset of 544,820 pairs of EP patent applications. Analyzing patterns of knowledge flows captured in patent …

organizational performance of knowledge-intensive business services (KIBS) and examine the mediating role of SI. Design …/methodology/approach Hypotheses were tested using the theoretical OL model of knowledge acquisition, distribution, interpretation and organizational … contributes to the knowledge production in the following ways: to the understanding of the relationship between OL and SI and its …