Competition as a driving force for technological innovation and productivity growth in countries, companies and other organizations has stimulated the rise of human desires and enabled higher levels of achievement.Nations compete with each other in the various sectors of economic activity, but...

James G. March conceived organizational learning as a balance between the exploration of new alternatives and the exploitation of existing competencies in an organization. This study extends March's model to consider exploration and exploitation in a hierarchical organization. First, the effect...

Within the field of knowledge management, the concepts of organizational learning and organizational forgetting are considered somehow opposite. But are we able to learn without forgetting‘ If maintained within the organization, useless knowledge can become a barrier to new knowledge, also...

Purpose: Strategic innovation is a nascent concept which sees strategy as a revolutionary innovative process. Although this concept falls under the discipline of modern strategic management but its procedural development has not been strategically conceptualized. Thus, the main purpose of this...

Although strategic changes and management control systems are relevant, there is the need for an evolution in the tools of performance measurement, analysis and control to understand the ability of the firms, at first, to face environmental variability and, then, to achieve objectives through...

Contributions on competitive strategy and advantage have been long concentrated on the single firm. In Europe small and medium enterprises still prevail, business districts are widespread and rivals are called to cooperate, in order to face the global context. Inter-firm collaboration seems to...