the corporate entrepreneurship (ce) of firms and enterprises is the subject of current research in the fields of management and business. however, analyses on this subject in agricultural firms are lacking. the purpose of this research was to study the relationships between corporate entrepreneurship and firm performance in agricultural small and medium-sized enterprises (asmes) in iran. specif...

We introduce the concept of knowledge management orientation (KMO) – the degree to which a firm demonstrates behaviors of organized and systematic knowledge management (KM) implementation. Based on an extensive review of the KM literature, the KMO concept is operationalized as a second-order latent construct consisting of four main component factors: organizational memory, knowledge sharing, kn...

Previous researches have examined the relationships among variables such as knowledge management (KM), innovation and performance. However, most empirical studies have investigated the relationships among these variables in isolation. A gap thus exists in the literature and to fill this gap, the current study develops a research model that links these variables. The model establishes the relati...

the purpose of this article is to present the link among resource based theory, marketing strategy, and firms’ performance in order to propose integrative framework showing how the three constructs are linked. it is organized based on a review of academic literature on resource based theory and marketing strategy chronicled in major marketing journals up to december 2015. besides, the paper ref...

This paper describes knowledge based entrepreneurship in the Czech Republic and Hungary, in particular the growth and development process of 4 firms are studied: Dekonta, an environmental services firm, Et netera, an IT services firm, both operating in Czech Republic, along with a data recovery firm, Kűrt, and a biopharmaceutical firm, Solvo, both operating in Hungary. The objectives of the cas...

Knowledge leakage refers to loss of technological knowledge intended to stay within a firm's boundaries and may cause a “weakened state” in which a focal firm loses its competitive advantage and industry position. Based on multiple case studies of knowledge leakage in joint research and development (R&D) projects in large firms in Sweden, this paper makes two contributions. First, in contrast t...

This paper aims at regarding knowledge transfer as the basis of improving firm performance in knowledge economy society, and analyzing the effects of knowledge transfer on firm performance from the perspective of dynamic capability. Thus, this paper gives firm some suggestions to achieve knowledge transfer and the update of knowledge system through integrating internal and external resources, a...

This paper takes an economic approach to investigate the role of geographical proximity for organizing new product development (NPD) activities within inter-firm linkages. Product development theory and the resource-based view is discussed from an inter-firm perspective and contrasted to arguments in the literature on geographical economics. The approach in this paper assumes that geographical ...

The existence of two alternative visions of the firm (the firm as a "processor of information" versus the firm a "processor of knowledge") raises some fundamental theoretical questions. As Langlois and Foss (1996) have pointed out, we are confronted with the choice between, on the one side, a contractual approach based on transaction costs, where ‘firms and other institutions are alternative bu...

The recently developed knowledge-based view of the firm argues that knowledge is thefiirm 's most valuable resource. Within this field of study, informal social networks are rapidly gaining attention as mechanisms that facilitate knowledge flows. Electronic networks of practice are a special case of informal networks where the sharing of practice-related knowledge occurs primarily through compu...