with the rapid changes in international environments, it's very hard to sustain the corporate competitive advantage. knowing the competitive priorities leads the managers to a better understanding of corporate strategies in the future. the globalization pressure and the rapid changes in local markets have affected the firms' competitive advantages. having a clear understanding of comp...

IntroductIon Knowledge management has been proposed as a fundamental strategic process and the only sustainable competitive advantage for firms (Grant, 1996; Davenport, 1998). A key to understanding the success and failure of knowledge management efforts within organizations is the ability to identify the relevant knowledge to manage and to extract value out of this knowledge. In the last decad...