The role of knowledge creation within organizations increases in importance within a knowledge economy. Unlike the industrial economy, which inspired basic economic theory, the knowledge economy collapses the time frame for economic agents to obtain relevant knowledge with which to make competitive resource allocation decisions. Further, much knowledge creation still occurs today in an ineffici...

This paper develops a framework of analysis of the emerging organisational network topology of the new knowledge-driven economy in order to identify critical success factors in the process of innovation. The central argument of the paper is that innovation constitutes the foundation of the competitiveness and value-creation capabilities of economic organisations. However, innovation is not some...

This presentation analyses explores the interconnecting themes of knowledge, culture and change by examining the impact of the knowledge economy on the organization of welfare. It adopts as its specific focus the role of the welfare ‘expert’ in the social services. This is contextualised within the New Labour government’s social exclusion policies, the global knowledge economy and concepts of c...

In the context of globalization and risk management, knowledge and the virtual are key concepts that are poorly understood by decision makers and social theorists. This article refutes the OECD’s presumption that knowledge is an intangible, fixed asset, by showing the importance of context, scale and the ‘virtuality’ of knowledge in risk-management, communication, and knowledge management The a...

This presentation analyses explores the interconnecting themes of knowledge, culture and change by examining the impact of the knowledge economy on the organization of welfare. It adopts as its specific focus the role of the welfare ‘expert’ in the social services. This is contextualised within the New Labour government’s social exclusion policies, the global knowledge economy and concepts of c...

It is argued that the basic economic resource in the next economy is knowledge. An important source for competitive advantage in this economy lies in an organization’s network of external relationships. This paper presents a conceptualization of strategic knowledge managing within the context of inter-organizational networks. The conceptualization is based on extensions of the resourceand knowl...

The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) States are in the transition toward a new, knowledge-based economy. As these states diversify from a petroleum-based economy to knowledge-based industries, the countries’ competitiveness and performance increasingly will depend on their abilities to foster an indigenous capacity for technological innovation. This paper presents a broad framework for a national...

Innovation is the key to the economic development in today’s knowledge driven economy. World markets increasingly demand knowledge-intensive production and innovation-based competition. Iran still remains largely a natural-resource-based economy. To become competitive in today’s market it needs urgent shift towards a more knowledge-based economy which requires strong innovation system. This stu...