Knowledge management capability based competitive advantage of the firm: toward an empirical study
RIS ID
33660
Abstract
The role of knowledge management as a powerful means of sustaining competitive advantage has been strongly emphasised in strategic management literature. Although a variety of knowledge management factors have been investigated, only a limited number of studies have explored the resource-based view of knowledge management and analyses to date have focused mostly on infrastructure elements. It is proposed that an absence of knowledge management processes may hinder a valuable integrated contribution of the two major components that constitute knowledge management capability, namely infrastructure and process to organisational competitive advantage. This paper reports progress from the early stages of a large research project aimed at filling this perceived gap in the literature. Adopting the resource-based theory of the firm blended with knowledge and dynamic capability-based approaches, this paper attempts to develop a comprehensive theoretical model. The next stage of the research project will be an empirical examination and validation of this proposed theoretical model.
Publication Details
Nguyen, T. Q. (2007). Knowledge management capability based competitive advantage of the firm: toward an empirical study. Proceedings of The 10th Australian Conference for Knowledge Management and Intelligent Decision Support (pp. 1-15). Melbourne, Australia: Australian Scholars Publishing.