Knowledge Management in Global Technology Markets: Applying Theory to Practice

Long Range Planning

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 55-71

  Buckley, Peter J ^a   Carter, Martin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b NONE

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EID: 0002869141     PISSN: 00246301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-6301(99)00102-8     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. F. Machlup, Knowledge, Its Creation, Distribution and Economic Significance, Vol. 1: Knowledge and Knowledge Production, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ (1980).
2. I. Nonaka and H. Takeuchi, The Knowledge Creating Company: How Japanese Companies Create the Dynamics of Innovation, Oxford University Press, Oxford (1995).
3. A. Francis, Competing technologies, increasing returns and lock-in by historically small events, Economic Journal 99, 106-113 (1989).
4. M. Polanyi, The Tacit Dimension, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London (1966).
5. For an example see Machlup, cited in Reference 1.
6. H. Demsetz, Ownership and Control of the Firm: The Organisation of Economic Activity, Vol. 1, Basil Blackwell, Oxford (1988).
7. A. Smith, The Wealth of Nations, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL (1976).
8. R. Rumelt, Towards a strategic theory of the firm, in R. B. Lamb (ed.), Competitive Strategic Management, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ (1984); S. A. Lippman and R. P. Rumelt, Uncertain imitability: an analysis of inter-firm differences under competition, Bell Journal of Economics, 13, 418-438 (1982).
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13. Compare with the intermediator for goods: "His comparative advantage lies not in his knowledge of the use to which the good will be put, but his knowledge of who is the best person to put it to that use". M. Casson, The nature of the firm reconsidered: information synthesis and entrepreneurial organisation, Management International Review, 36 (Special Issue 1), 61 (1996).
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15. Compare with Demsetz's suggestion that the boundaries between firms are a way of economising on knowledge costs. AU that firms need to exchange are the product itself and appropriate instructions for use. Detailed knowledge of its production does not need to be communicated. See Demsetz, cited in Reference 6.
16. O. Williamson, The modern corporation, in The Economic Institutions of Capitalism, cited in Reference 9; R. Grant, Towards a knowledge-based theory of the firm, Strategic Management Journal, 17, 109-122 (1966).
17. O. Williamson, The modern corporation, in The Economic Institutions of Capitalism, cited in Reference 9; R. Grant, Towards a knowledge-based theory of the firm, Strategic Management Journal, 17, 109-122 (1966).
18. A. A. Alchian and H. Demsetz, Production, information costs and economic organisation, American Economic Review 62, 777-795 (1972).
19. The authors are grateful to Mr Rahul G. Joshi for valuable assistance in conducting the Devonian case study.