Strategic Learning and Knowledge Management [Hardcover]

Ron Sanchez (Editor), Aimé Heene (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471968811 | ISBN-13: 978-0471968818 | Publication Date: January 29, 1997 | Edition: 1

Strategic Learning and Knowledge Management Edited by Ron Sanchez University of Western Australia and Aimé Heene University of Gent, Belgium. Published in association with the Strategic Management Society, The Wiley Strategic Management Series aims to illustrate the ‘best in global strategic management’ for academics, business practitioners and consultants. Strategic Learning and Knowledge Management develops new theory and applications for the strategic management of ‘learning organizations’ and their knowledge assets. Extending the theoretical framework of competence-based strategic management to the analysis of learning and knowledge, the contributors explore strategically important learning processes within and between organizations. New concepts for categorizing strategically important knowledge are also introduced, as are new methods for effectively managing a firm’s knowledge assets. This book:

• Investigates organizational learning and knowledge management in leading companies.
• Examines learning and knowledge management in several industry contexts, including high-tech and software, but also in more traditional industries.
• Explores the role of learning and knowledge management in strategic management.

Contributors Max Boisot David L. Deeds Tom Elfring Dorothy Griffiths Knut Haanes Richard Hall Aimé Heene Richard Klavans John W. Lang Bente R. LØwendahl Veronica Mole Henk Post Bertrand Quélin Ron Sanchez Petteri Sivula Frans A. J. van den Bosch Russell W. Wright

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This book develops a framework of essential elements for the strategic management of learning and knowledge. It investigates the organisational contexts in which learning takes place and the key dynamics in a firm's processes for developing a superior ability to learn. Development of this area leads to the organisation becoming more effective in leveraging knowledge to greatest strategic benefit. It examines relationships between firms which enable the creation and application of new knowledge, and it suggests new approaches to categorising and managing strategically important knowledge in both cooperative and competitive interactions between organisations.

From the Inside Flap

Strategic Learning and Knowledge Management The increasingly dynamic nature of competition has made the improvement of organizational learning and the development of more effective methods for managing knowledge, central concerns of contemporary strategic management. Strategic Learning and Knowledge Management draws on ongoing research into organizational competence to introduce several new approaches to the strategic management of learning and knowledge. Concepts from emerging theory in competence-based competition are used to investigate processes of strategic learning, examining both organizational contexts in which learning takes place and organizational dynamics for creating new knowledge. The search for competitive advantage, however, also challenges organizations to become more effective in using their existing knowledge to greatest strategic benefit. Accordingly, this volume also examines processes within firms that improve both the creation and application of new knowledge in competitive and cooperative interactions between organizations. The volume is divided into four sections:

• Section One provides an overview of the current competence perspective on strategic learning and knowledge management
• Section Two explores strategic learning processes within organizations
• Section Three examines strategic learning between organizations
• Section Four investigates the strategic management of knowledge in competence-based competition

Strategic Learning and Knowledge Management challenges many notions prevalent in current discussions of knowledge and learning, such as the strategic value of ‘tacit knowledge’ and the need to rely primarily on internal learning processes. Using case studies from American and European companies, the contributors bring you up to date with current thinking about managing strategically important knowledge in organizations. Published in association with the Strategic Management Society, this volume provides a key resource of new ideas and issues being discussed by the Society, and makes them accessible to academics, consultants and practising managers.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 252 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 1 edition (January 29, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471968811
• ISBN-13: 978-0471968818
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,450,037 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)