imam mohammed bin idris al- shafe‘i has had plenty of poetical talent and an extensive literal knowledge. it seems that his literal aspect has not taken into account much compared to other aspects of his personality. whatever exists are testimony by some of the pioneers in the fields of knowledge and literature confirming his erudition in poetry and literature. after introducing the poetical an...

Introduction The role of knowledge in firm strategy and performance is well documented in the literature. There are numerous theoretical and empirical studies examining the relationship between knowledge and firm performance. The essence of these studies is that the higher the level of knowledge acquired or accumulated, the greater the level of firm innovation and performance. For example, Lieb...

Successful new product development (NPD) activities need high amounts of new knowledge from a variety of different sources. When the NPD activities are seen as a process of knowledge accumulation, two knowledge processes are identified: knowledge acquisition and knowledge utilization. This study focuses on the process of knowledge acquisition from external knowledge sources in the NPD of SMEs. ...

One key asset of a firm is its knowledge stock comprising different knowledge domains (e.g., market, technological knowledge, etc.). This stock results from firm internal and/or external resources such as exchange partners (e.g. customers and R&D partners). The paper focuses on external partners and explores for which knowledge domain the usage of knowledge management systems (KMS) regarding th...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to consider the value of management history as a contributor to the development of the theory and practice of management and, to the extent that it is necessary to absorb the past in order to understand the present and inform the future, consider what happens to the knowledge base when the surviving “contributions” to the knowledge base are partial and, in...

Received: 24 July 2007 Accepted: 15 October 2007 Abstract This paper addresses the issue of truth and knowledge in management generally and knowledge management in particular. Based on ideas from critical realism and critical theory, it argues against the monovalent conceptualization of knowledge implicitly or explicitly held by many authors and aims instead to develop a characterization that r...