Search Results - subject:"exploitation and exploration"

How Knowledge Accumulation changed the Competitive Advantage of Strategy Consulting Firms

Bosch, F.A.J. van den; Baaij, M.G.; Volberda, H.W. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2005

implications for top management. Free Keywords Strategy Consulting, Knowledge, Exploitation and Exploration, Ambidextrous … options and the implications for top management. Keywords: Strategy Consulting; Knowledge; Exploitation and Exploration … managerial and organizational requirements of performing both exploitation and exploration activities (Birkinshaw & Gibson …

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Communities of practice: keeping the company agile

Borzillo, Stefano; Schmitt, Achim; Antino, Mirko - In: Journal of Business Strategy 33 (2012) 6, pp. 22-30

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide managers, researchers, and consultants with insights into the ways communities of practice (CoPs) simultaneously support organizations' product refinements (their knowledge exploitation and alignment thereof to today's business demands) and the...

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The role of information systems in supporting exploitative and exploratory management control activities

Schermann, Michael; Wiesche, Manuel; Krcmar, Helmut - In: Journal of management accounting research : JMAR 24 (2012), pp. 31-59

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The Role of Strategic Alliances in Gaining Sustainable Competitive Advantage for Firms

Culpan, Refik - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 19 (2008) 1+2, pp. 94-105

This article offers a critical assessment of the role of strategic alliances in gaining sustainable competitive advantage through building knowledge assets. To do so, it develops a conceptual model, in which three key concepts: the role of "knowledge assets" in gaining "sustainable competitive...

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On the advantages of non-cooperative behavior in agent populations

Pudmenzky, Alexander - In: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) 71 (2006) 1, pp. 1-8

We investigate the amount of cooperation between agents in a population during reward collection that is required to minimize the overall collection time. In our computer simulation agents have the option to broadcast the position of a reward to neighboring agents with a normally distributed...

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