This paper contributes to the clarification of the connections between knowledge management and dynamic capabilities in the context of product development to see how they explain product development competences. Building on the knowledge management and dynamic capabilities literatures, the paper...

The strategic process in operations (SPO) is influenced by the increasing environmental dynamism in the marketplace. Considering organizational knowledge as the support of the whole strategic process, managers may choose their objectives based on previous experiences. Manufacturing strategic...

There has been little research that includes reliable deductions about the influence of knowledge and its associated learning processes on business performance. For this reason, the main objective of the present study is to empirically explore the link between learning flows in organizations,...

Organizations need to put in practice the most favourable conditions to facilitate learning capability. There are not clear answers about how these facilitators support and develop a learning capability. The different ways of thinking about learning in organizations distinguish two kinds of...

We investigated ambidexterity, defined as the capacity to simultaneously achieve exploration and exploitation activities at a product development level. Building on the knowledge management literature, we argue that information technology - defined by a combination of the convergent and...

This study conducts an investigation of interorganizational trust and its positive and negative effects. We consider how positive and negative effects operate differently under two types of uncertainties — buyer dependence and market instability. Trust is studied in the buyer–supplier...

This study aims to investigate how supply chain partners develop absorptive capability in terms of three learning processes (exploration, assimilation and exploitation). We propose and empirically assess a taxonomy that classifies supply chain relationships based on differences in absorptive...

Based on the knowledge-based view of inter-firm collaboration, this study develops and proposes a parsimonious taxonomy of how buyers and suppliers develop knowledge integration in terms of two mechanisms: joint sense meaning and joint decision making. The first focuses on the interpretation and...