1st Edition

Knowledge and Strategy

Edited By Michael H. Zack Copyright 1999
    328 Pages
    by Routledge

    328 Pages
    by Routledge

    First Published in 1999. This is the first knowledge book in the Resources for the Knowledge-Based Economy Readers' series to link the two hot topics of knowledge and strategy. The book centers around the concept of treating organizational knowledge as a valuable strategy asset. Knowledge strategy is a natural extension of the historical development of business strategy in general. The book includes seminal articles on the subject.

    *The Resource-based Theory of Competitive Advantage - Robert M. Grant *Competing on Resources:Strategy in the 1990s - David J. Collins and Cynthia A. Montgomery * The Core Competence of the Corporation - C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel * The Theory of the Growth of the Firm - Edith T. Penrose *Beyond the Knowledge Worker - Paul Romer *Dynamic Capabilities and Strategic Management - David J. Teece, Gary Pisano and Amy Shuen *Organizational Knowledge, Collective Practice and Penrose Rents - J.C.Spender *Prospering in Dynalically Competitive Environments: Organizational Capability as Knowledge Integration - R.M. Grant * Knowledge and Competence as Strategic Assets - Sidney G. Winter *The Strategic Analysis of Intangible Resources - Richard Hall *Knowledge, Strategy and the Theory of the Firm *Tacit Knowledge; The Key to the Strategic Alignement of Intellectual Capital - Hubert Saint-Onge * Generic Knowledge Strategies in the U.S. Pharmaceutical Industry - Paul Bierly and Alok Chakrabarti *Is Your Firm a Creative Destroyer? Competitive Learning and Knowledge Flows in the Technological Strategies of Firms - M.H. Boisot *Leveraging Inteelect - James Brian Quinn, Phillip Anderson and Sidney Finkelstein

    Biography

    Michael H. Zack, Walsh Research Porfessor at the College of Business Administration, Northeeastern University, is an educator, researcher and consultant specialising in the management of information and knowledge to enhance organsiation performance.

    The book includes several of the most important articles about knowledge and competences/capabilities as strategic assets in the resoure-based tradition.
    Technovation - Dr Jonathon Sapsed - 2001