This paper contributes to the clarification of the connections between knowledge management and dynamic capabilities in the context of product development to see how they explain product development competences. Building on the knowledge management and dynamic capabilities literatures, the paper...

Based on the knowledge-based view of inter-firm collaboration, this study develops and proposes a parsimonious taxonomy of how buyers and suppliers develop knowledge integration in terms of two mechanisms: joint sense meaning and joint decision making. The first focuses on the interpretation and...

The purpose of this paper is to explain product development performance through the link between knowledge management and knowledge integration. When product development teams integrate knowledge about two external entities - customers and suppliers, they acquire a better understanding of the...

This study aims to investigate how supply chain partners develop absorptive capability in terms of three learning processes (exploration, assimilation and exploitation). We propose and empirically assess a taxonomy that classifies supply chain relationships based on differences in absorptive...