Book Description
Provides an overview of the current competence perspective on strategic learning and knowledge management. Explores strategic learning processes within organizations and examines strategic learning between organizations. DLC: Organizational change - Management.
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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.
