A comparison of the development of the synthetic dye industry in Europe and the US.

"This book examines current research in support of knowledge management by focusing on how knowledge resources can be used to create and sustain competitive advantages, combining imitation and innovation theories"--Provided by publisher.

Aims to study the importance of knowledge management in organizations. This work reviews and presents the state of knowledge management.

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Strategy management has always been a crucial business aspect that a company must understand to remain successful in the business world. However, there are a number of different approaches that a company can employ in order to differentiate themselves from the competition. Knowledge Management for Competitive Advantage During Economic Crisis brings together the various approaches that affect the superiority of a company’s organizational performance and the gains they can make over their competitors. By focusing on concepts such as organizational learning and intellectual capital, this book is an indispensable reference source for researchers, practitioners, graduate students, and business managers interested in understanding what approaches are necessary to ensure superior organizational performance.

This eighteenth volume in the Jossey-Bass Organizational Frontiers Series provides an in-depth examination of how I/O psychologists can help find, recruit, and manage knowledge. The authors explain the nature of different types of knowledge, how knowledge-based competition is affecting organizations, and how these ideas relate to innovation and learning in organizations. They describe the strategies and organizational structures and designs that facilitate the acquisition and development of knowledge. And they discuss how continuous knowledge acquisition and innovation is promoted among individuals and teams and how to foster the creation of new knowledge. In addition, they explain how to assess the climate and culture for organizational learning, measure and monitor knowledge resources at the organizational level, and more.

Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: 61.0, University of South Wales, course: Management Theories and Philosophies, language: English, abstract: Knowledge has been identified as a crucial source of attaining competitive advantage and the creation of value (King and Zeithaml, 2003), and a fundamental component for growth and important criteria for organizations with global interest. Knowledge management is a method of collecting, organizing, and sharing worker intellectual capital all through the organization to guarantee the firm's effectiveness. Kelleher and Levene (2001) sharing knowledge all through the organization to promote current firm's business processes, brings about effective business process and eliminates unnecessary process. The resource based view has advanced to become an important theory in the field of strategy from the 1980's (Wernerfelt, 1984 ; Barney 1991 ; Grant 1991). The resource based view moves concentration of researchers in the field of strategy from external resource to organization's internal resources. It sets up the different types of resources different from other organizations as a crucial sources of advantage amongst rivals (Peteraf, 1993; Barney 1991) and determines different factors that assist organizations to keep up with their superior resource position and competitive advantage (Dierickx and Cool, 1989; Barney 1991; Ghemawat,1986). The necessity for developing competitive advantage over rivals is of top most discussion in strategic management subjects (Rahimli, 2012). Competitive advantage of an organization is said to exist when the resource of an organization is exceptional among other rivalry industries (Kotler and Keller, 2012). This essay will examine more literature in knowledge and knowledge management, the resource based view and competitive advantage and the contribution of knowledge management to attaining competitive advantage.