Knowledge Creation Processes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvi

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2. The Knowledge Society and Inter-Firm Competition

   • Gregorio Martín de Castro, Pedro López Sáez, José Emilio Navas López, Raquel Galindo Dorado

   Pages 1-47

3. An Approach to Knowledge Creation and Transfer: The EO-SECI

   • Gregorio Martín de Castro, Pedro López Sáez, José Emilio Navas López, Raquel Galindo Dorado

   Pages 48-63

4. Designing the Empirical Research

   • Gregorio Martín de Castro, Pedro López Sáez, José Emilio Navas López, Raquel Galindo Dorado

   Pages 64-98

5. Research Results

   • Gregorio Martín de Castro, Pedro López Sáez, José Emilio Navas López, Raquel Galindo Dorado

   Pages 99-161

6. Conclusions

   • Gregorio Martín de Castro, Pedro López Sáez, José Emilio Navas López, Raquel Galindo Dorado

   Pages 162-168

7. Back Matter

   Pages 169-205

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The capability to create and apply new knowledge is one of the main sources of sustained competitive advantage, yet there are few empirical studies of this. This book develops an improved and extended theoretical model about knowledge creation and transfer within organizations, testing it empirically with a survey in 115 knowledge-intensive firms.

• organization
• organizational learning
• organizations

GREGORIO MARTÍN DE CASTRO is Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. He is also a Research Associate at CIC Spanish Knowledge Society Research Centre, he holds an expert Diploma in Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management by IUEE and Insead, France, and he has been Fellow at Real Colegio Complutense-Harvard University during 2004-2005. He is author and co-author of several papers concerning Resource-Based View, Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management

PEDRO LOPEZ SAEZ is Assistant Professor of Buisness Administration at Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, and he has been Fellow at Real Colegio Complutense- Harvard University during 2004-2005. He is Research Associate at CIC Spanish Knowledge Society Research Centre and he is author and co-author of several papers concerning Resource-Based View, Intellectual Capital and Knowledge Management

JOSÉ EMILO NAVAS LÓPEZ is Professor and Head of the Business Administration Department in Universidad Compultense de Madrid, Spain. He is author and co-author of several books and papers concerning Technology Management, Strategy and Knowledge Management. He has held the first Knowledge Management Chair in Spain at I.U. Euroforum Escorial.

RAQUEL GALINDO DORADO is Assistant Professor of Business Administration at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, fellow at the Center for Business and Government st J.F.Kennedy School-Harvard University, USA, andshe has been Fellow at Real Colegio Compultense-Harvard Univeristy during 2003-2005. She is the Coordinator of the Research Symposium for Spanish Accounting Aacademics at RCC-Harvard University.

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