Toward a Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm,” Strategic Management Journal (17), pp.
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Summary
The primary contribution of the paper is in exploring the coordination mechanisms through which firms integrate the specialist knowledge of their members, which has implications for the basis of organizational capability, the principles of organization design, and the determinants of the horizontal and vertical boundaries of the firm.
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- article
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- 1996-12-01
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Keywords
Hierarchy, Knowledge management, Organizational learning, Knowledge value chain, Business
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