The resource-based theory of the firm attributes superior firm performance to organizational resources that are valuable, rare, irreplaceable, and most readily reproduced. Aligned with this theory, the dissertation examines the widely expressed notion that knowledge management (KM) competencies form a critical organizational resource that contributes to firm performance. Specifically, this diss...

Digital extended enterprises are faced with the dual challenge of managing intra-organizational information and monitoring information from the external environment. Survival requires the effective use of information and decision technologies to gather, manage, and exploit knowledge. It also entails the extensive sharing of information with business network partners through information linkages...

Purpose: The objective of the article is to investigate relationship between organizational resilience and family firm performance mediating role socioemotional wealth. We take into account socio-emotional wealth as a triggering mechanism in above-stated relationship. Design/Methodology/Approach: To test main our paper we conducted empirical quantitative research on sample 193 Polish businesses...

This article aims to explore how a system of human resource management (HRM) practices influence firm performance in a professional service context. It integrates multidisciplinary theory and research findings. The system of HRM practices are labeled as high performance work systems (HPWS). In this article, it is proposed that HPWS influence firm performance through two steps: (1) by creating r...

The value of information technology (IT) investment comes increasingly from its ability to complement and enable business strategies and organizational capabilities. As a general purpose technology, however, IT could either a complement or a constraint. Making the right IT investment, particularly the right IT infrastructure investment could thus have far-reaching impact on a firm " s IT invest...

leadership style and organizational climate are considered as a substructure framework in successful performance of knowledge management. the purpose of this research is investigating both the effect of leadership style and organizational climate on knowledge management and the moderate role of organization structure and social interaction in affecting leadership style and organizational climat...

This study uses multivariate analysis to assess the basic question asked by resource-based view researchers: Do organizational resources and capabilities account for variations in firm performance? An analysis of survey responses of 93 industrial enterprises in Israel indicates that superiority of an industrial enterprise, in terms of four performance measures (return on sales, return on equity...