Knowledge and Organizations Literature Review: 1994-1999

This papers integrates literature on Knowledge in Organizations (a.k.a. Knowledge Management) from 1994-1999 by systematically reading and cataloguing papers on this topic published in the following journals: AMJ, AMR, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, ASQ, and Organization Studies. It starts by considering theories of firm boundaries and ends by considering literature pertaining to inter- and intra-organizational collaboration (a.k.a. knowledge sharing).

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[3]  Daniel A. Levinthal,et al.  ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY: A NEW PERSPECTIVE ON LEARNING AND INNOVATION , 1990 .

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[10]  I. Nonaka.  A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation , 1994 .

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[12]  Ramkrishnan V. Tenkasi,et al.  P ERSPECTIVE M AKING AND P ERSPECTIVE T AKING IN C OMMUNITIES OF K NOWING , 2000 .

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[14]  Susan Leigh Star,et al.  The Structure of Ill-Structured Solutions: Boundary Objects and Heterogeneous Distributed Problem Solving , 1989, Distributed Artificial Intelligence.

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[16]  G. Krogh.  Care in Knowledge Creation , 1998 .

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[18]  Niels G. Noorderhaven,et al.  Some Reservations About Social Capital , 1999 .

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[21]  Carla O'Dell,et al.  If Only We Knew What We Know: Identification and Transfer of Internal Best Practices , 1998 .

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[26]  J. Barney.  How a Firm's Capabilities Affect Boundary Decisions , 1999 .

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[32]  I. Nonaka,et al.  Organizational Capabilities in Product Development of Japanese Firms: a Conceptual Framework and Empirical Findings , 1998 .

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[35]  J. Spender.  Making knowledge the basis of a dynamic theory of the firm , 1996 .

[36]  B. Kogut,et al.  Knowledge of the Firm, Combinative Capabilities, and the Replication of Technology , 1992 .

[37]  R. Grant,et al.  A KNOWLEDGE-BASED THEORY OF INTER-FIRM COLLABORATION. , 1995 .

[38]  J. Barney.  Firm Resources and Sustained Competitive Advantage , 1991 .

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[40]  Oliver Hart,et al.  An Economist's Perspective on the Theory of the Firm , 1989 .

[41]  Alice Lam.  Embedded Firms, Embedded Knowledge: Problems of Collaboration and Knowledge Transfer in Global Cooperative Ventures , 1997 .

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[44]  Steven B. Andrews,et al.  Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition , 1995, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Research Design.

[45]  Rajesh Kumar,et al.  Differential Learning and Interaction in Alliance Dynamics: a Process and Outcome Discrepancy Model , 1998 .

[46]  K. R. Conner,et al.  A Resource-Based Theory of the Firm: Knowledge Versus Opportunism , 1996 .

[47]  W. Powell.  Learning from Collaboration: Knowledge and Networks in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries , 1998 .

[48]  Jeffrey H. Dyer,et al.  The Relational View: Cooperative Strategy and Sources of Interorganizational Competitive Advantage , 1998 .

[49]  Andrew C. Inkpen,et al.  Knowledge Management Processes and International Joint Ventures , 1998 .

[50]  Amalya L. Oliver,et al.  Social Networks, Learning, and Flexibility: Sourcing Scientific Knowledge in New Biotechnology Firms , 1994 .

[51]  Kentaro Nobeoka,et al.  INTER-PROJECT LEARNING IN NEW PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT. , 1995 .

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[53]  A. Madhok.  Crossroads---The Organization of Economic Activity: Transaction Costs, Firm Capabilities, and the Nature of Governance , 1996 .

[54]  L. Bengtsson,et al.  The Interorganizational Learning Dilemma: Collective Knowledge Development in Strategic Alliances , 1998 .

[55]  Morten T. Hansen,et al.  The Search-Transfer Problem: The Role of Weak Ties in Sharing Knowledge across Organization Subunits , 1999 .

[56]  J. Liebeskind,et al.  Knowledge, Strategy, and the Theory of the Firm , 1996 .

[57]  Nicolai J. Foss,et al.  More Critical Comments on Knowledge-Based Theories of the Firm , 1996 .

[58]  S. Winter,et al.  An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change.by Richard R. Nelson; Sidney G. Winter , 1987 .

[59]  Gabriel Szulanski.  UNPACKING STICKINESS: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE BARRIERS TO TRANSFER BEST PRACTICE INSIDE THE FIRM. , 1995 .

[60]  H. Tsoukas.  The firm as a distributed knowledge system : A constructionist approach , 1996 .

[61]  R. Grant.  Chapter 8 – Prospering in Dynamically-Competitive Environments: Organizational Capability as Knowledge Integration , 1999 .

[62]  Allen M. Weiss,et al.  Holding Distribution Channel Relationships Together: The Role of Transaction-Specific Assets and Length of Prior Relationship , 1997 .