All companies that wish to stay competitive have to develop their ability to maintain, improve, organise, use and reuse the employees' knowledge, tangible as well as intangible. Knowledge management has become a very important management tool. Although still open to several interpretations, it...

Firms, which have recognised the significance of Intellectual Capital as the key resource of modern business, aim at developing ways to manage and also measure this key resource in order to relate their Intellectual Capital performance and bottom line results. But it has become obvious that the...

This study seeks to develop a dynamic theoretical framework for global competitiveness and to determine whether the enhancement of firm performance comes as a consequence of clustering at the location level, inter-organisational trust at the relationship level, or resource and knowledge...

Creation of knowledge in any organisation is inevitably incessant. Its appropriate use and handling are strategic to the competitiveness of the organisation. In many small-and medium-sector enterprises (SMEs), while specific knowledge generation is a continuing activity, importance of its apt...

Companies everywhere are dissolving their boundaries with their suppliers, customers and even rivals. The discrete company is no longer the building block of the modern economy as it is being replaced by 'networks'. Development of supporting systems for network enterprise is difficult but...

The Knowledge Management (KM) driven dynamic supply chain holds future competitive potential for improved business performance. Dynamic supply chains can change their structures and chain partners dynamically. Hence, they are more complex to deal with, especially for the Small and Medium Sized...

One major theme for today's competition is looking at firms as learning organisations. internet-based technologies can support and revolutionise the way for learning. As a consequence e-learning assumes a strategic relevance. This paper focuses on the competitive advantages of e-learning, and...

The vast subject of knowledge management has recently started gaining significance in India. However, despite the investment of time, resources and money, only few companies can claim to have successfully implemented an organisation-wide knowledge management system. These past experiences...

Capabilities and their underlying knowledge assets represent a major competitive resource for knowledge-intensive organisations such as e-businesses. The research presented in this paper utilises a series of case studies to identify the key knowledge assets for e-businesses. The paper suggests...

This paper aims to develop a number of theoretical propositions around the construction and use of knowledge in public sector organisations and is based on the outcomes of an in-depth qualitative empirical study consisting of 12 case studies of innovation in UK local government. It explores how...