Knowledge Creation Processes Theory and Empirical Evidence from Knowledge Intensive Firms
by Martín de Castro, Gregorio; López Sáez, Pedro; Navas López, José Emilio; Galindo Dorado, RaquelFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2007-05-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary
Today the capability to create and apply new knowledge represents one of the main sources of sustained competitive advantage. Nevertheless, there are very few empirical studies of this. This book develops an improved and extended theoretical model about knowledge creation and transfer within organizations and tests it empirically with a survey in 115 knowledge-intensive firms. The results show the different knowledge creation processes employed by firms in practice and allow us to obtain evidence-driven models of the various foms of knowledge creation process.
Author Biography
Gregorio Martin de Castro is Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Table of Contents
| List of Tables | p. vii |
| List of Figures | p. x |
| Introduction | p. xii |
| The Knowledge Society and Inter-Firm Competition | p. 1 |
| The evolution of economic activity: towards the Knowledge Society | p. 1 |
| Characteristics of the Knowledge Economy | p. 9 |
| Inter-firm competition, learning, and knowledge | p. 25 |
| An Approach to Knowledge Creation and Transfer: The EO-SECI Model | p. 48 |
| Towards the formulation of a model of knowledge creation and organizational learning | p. 50 |
| General framework of analysis: the EO-SECI model | p. 54 |
| Specific framework of analysis | p. 61 |
| Designing the Empirical Research | p. 64 |
| Sampling procedures | p. 64 |
| Measurement tools | p. 74 |
| Stages for data gathering | p. 96 |
| Research Results | p. 99 |
| Preliminary analysis | p. 100 |
| Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis: knowledge creation and transfer processes in knowledge-intensive firms | p. 109 |
| Conclusions | p. 162 |
| Preliminary conclusions | p. 162 |
| Limitations of the work | p. 167 |
| Annexes | p. 169 |
| References | p. 189 |
| Index | p. 199 |
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