The purpose of this study is to identify the efforts made by family businesses to develop knowledge resources in order to improve innovative performance and market adaptability. This study employs a single case study exploratory design, with "indepth interviews" conducted with 9 participants...

The purpose of this study is to identify the efforts made by family businesses to develop knowledge resources in order to improve innovative performance and market adaptability. This study employs a single case study exploratory design, with "indepth interviews" conducted with 9 participants...

The last decade of research on the added value of human resource management and its impact on organizational performance, shows that HRM has an essential role in the process of attaining organizational goals and objectives. Unfortunately, the link is usually weak and the results unclear,...

What an organisation does versus what it out-sources to the market is a classic boundaries of the firm question that has previously been dominated by efficiency arguments. However, a knowledge-based view suggests these boundaries are integral to the ability of a firm to deploy existing knowledge...

Organisational structure is synonymous with a firm's knowledge – both today and in respect of a firm's future knowledge stocks. For some, this may seem obvious, yet for most scholars (and practitioners) this is not the case, as structure – particularly where the boundaries of the firm lie...

Theories of knowledge management in alliances between competitors highlight the role of the alliance as a vehicle in a competition for knowledge. Vertical publicprivate partnerships face a different institutional framework where competition for knowledge gives way to cooperation. This paper...