Every firm learns through firm specific methods. This learning process is operationalized by firm’s knowledge management practices. Therefore, knowledge to result in successful learning should be assisted by a combinative framework which can enhance a firms’ absorptive capability. This in turn will play a decisive role for achieving competitive advantage. Current literature in strategic managem...

In this paper, the author presents a theoretical framework that establishes an indirect link between IT capabilities and firm innovation by characterizing the mediating role of knowledge assets: knowledge networks and knowledge capabilities. Firm innovation itself is characterized as innovation development and innovation commercialization. The search on literature of IT capability and innovatio...

To explore the impact of knowledge-based dynamic capabilities on enterprise performance mechanisms, basis theory and upper echelons according to collected sample data using a structural equation model in an empirical test, this paper explores knowledgeability, organizational agility, business performance, executive support provided by theoretical four variables. The results show that agility ha...

Knowledge creation has emerged as a critical area in information systems research in the past decade (Nonaka 1994). However, the mechanism through which knowledge creation enhances firm performance remains unclear. This paper examines the role of organization agility as a mediator between knowledge creation processes and firm performance. Our survey study of 134 firms indicates that two forms o...

*London School of Economics and Political Science ([email protected]; [email protected]) University of Oslo ([email protected] ) Abstract The strategic use of knowledge and its management depend upon the relevant organizational context. The model of the “learning ladder” is a compact way of describing the unfolding of multiple organizational knowledge creation, transformation and transfer ...

Despite a sizable body of literature on virtual organization, little attention has been paid to defining organizational virtuality and identifying factors that influence degree of virtuality in organizations. Based on virtual organization literature and the knowledge-based view of the firm, we develop a working definition of organizational virtuality. We do this by conducting a review of existi...