Knowledge management is the secret used by all the successful companies to obtain competitive advantage and improve work performance. This paper will discuss the relevance of developing Strategic Ontological Knowledge Management Framework within the Dubai Police in order to achieve optimal performance. Establishing knowledge management structure within an intricate operation, such as the Dubai ...

How firms build new capabilities to adapt to changing environments is in the core of strategic management. However, only recently research has addressed this question. In this paper I develop a model that lays out how firms develop an capability to create and develop ventures through corporate venture capital, alliances, and acquisitions. The model is based on seven in-depth case studies of lar...

The traditional multinational corporation theory manifests unidirectional steps and ladders output the knowledge management pattern primarily to be already obsolete. In fact, the knowledge economy and globalized competition's further development causes the knowledge which the global management needs not only exists in some place, the multinational corporation must learn to distinguish knowledge...

Added value for SME can be determine as knowledge, employees’ skills and abilities, social relation, know-how, and particularly effective investing in intellectual capital. The enterprises which invest in knowledge and systems of work are achieved competitive advantage, because of theirs workers’ readiness to learning and qualifying themselves and also thanks to effective information and commun...

The strategic management of knowledge assets for competitive advantage in enterprises is important. This paper presents a systematic approach that can be followed to formulate a knowledge management (KM) strategy. The management of knowledge should not be done in an ad hoc or isolated manner. It should be integrated into the other management activities in the enterprise and linked to the strate...

The basic economic resource in the post-industrial information economy is knowledge, but there is a lack in our knowledge on how to manage knowledge and knowledge processes for competitive advantage. We present a new conceptualization of knowledge management: knowledge management in network contexts. We also present a strategic knowledge management (SKM) framework. SKM is a process involving: 1...

Enterprises need to understand the impact of different types of knowledge management (KM) approaches on business strategy, and how they interact with other types of initiatives to produce synergistic effects. The hypothesis of this paper is that a model based on the balanced scorecard approach (BSC) can be used to balance the diverse set of KM approaches that are described in the KM literature....

Knowledge management (KM) has attracted significant attention from researchers and practitioners as a facilitator of firm performance. Even though companies have implemented KM, they offers inconsistent support that KM enhances firm performance. Thus, we examine that KM process is a critical variable through which infrastructure capability and business strategy effect firm performance. Data fro...

In the era of knowledge economy, the necessity of recognizing knowledge as a key and intangible asset makes the effective management of knowledge a priority. Business strategy is the most important context for guiding effective knowledge management. And, knowledge management (KM) is also a dimension of business competitive strategy. Based on Miles and Snow’s (1978) business strategy typology, a...

Competing theoretical perspectives regarding the effects of knowledge management (KM) on performance have underpinned past empirical studies. By explicitly surfacing and comparing three such perspectives, we contribute to the theoretical advancement of the KM field. We develop hypotheses consistent with the underlying logics of universalistic, complementarity and contingency theories and we emp...