Product development is a knowledge intensive process. It is widely recognized as a mechanism that produces firms to learn, to enter new technological areas, and to deal more effectively with market uncertainty. Since technology management has become ingrained within the field of knowledge...

(WPE 05/03 Clave pdf) La obtención de mejores resultados a partir del conocimiento exige la instauración de unas condiciones de gestión orientadas tanto a la reunión de conocimientos efectivos como a su movilización activa; estos esfuerzos organizados han recibido el nombre de "gestión del...

The strategic process in operations (SPO) is influenced by the increasing environmental dynamism in the marketplace. Considering organizational knowledge as the support of the whole strategic process, managers may choose their objectives based on previous experiences. Manufacturing strategic...

Focusing on product development, this study extends the understanding of the environment-strategy framework and investigates the relative effect of two classical environmental variables, dynamism and complexity, on the knowledge strategy. Adopting a knowledge-based view, and assuming that the...

Dentro del contexto de la nueva ?econom¡a del conocimiento?, las organizaciones necesitan desarrollar una capacidad de aprendizaje con objeto de promover la creaci¢n de valor a partir de sus activos de conocimiento. Como resultado, la gesti¢n del conocimiento se ha convertido en una...

While product strategy has been approached from a variety of perspectives, the role of strategic fit as a critical linkage of knowledge sharing practices and new product development outcomes have not been adequately explored. This paper discusses how strategic fit is instrumental for...

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...

As the supply chain expands overseas, there is a growing need for managing supply chain disruptions from a cross-national perspective. This paper investigates whether or not supply chain disruption management (SCDM) can be universally applied. The universality of the SCDM framework is analyzed...

The effort in advanced information system that many organizations have achieved to improve performance under foreseeable situations has increased organizational complexity decreasing the capacity to deal with unforeseen situations. At this respect, our research question is: what is the limit for...

There has been little research that includes reliable deductions about the influence of knowledge and its associated learning processes on business performance. For this reason, the main objective of the present study is to empirically explore the link between learning flows in organizations,...