A well-balanced illustration of the concepts that surround the strategic management of intellectual capital and knowledge, with interesting and relevant papers arranged into logical sections chapters throughout the book.

• Contributors 1: Chun Wei Choo & Nick Bontis: Knowledge, Intellectual Capital, and Strategy: Themes and Tensions Part I: Knowledge in Organizations 2: Paul S. Adler: Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism 3: Frank Blackler: Knowledge, Knowledge Work, and Organizations: An Overview and Interpretation 4: Max Boisot: The Creation and Sharing of Knowledge 5: Chun Wei Choo: Sensemaking, Knowledge Creation, and Decision Making: Organizational Knowing as Emergent Strategy 6: Charles Despres & Daniele Chauvel: Knowledge, Context, and the Management of Variation Part II: Knowledge-Based Perspectives of the Firm 7: Kathleen R. Conner & C. K. Prahalad: A Resource-Based Theory of the Firm: Knowledge versus Opportunism 8: Robert M. Grant: The Knowledge-Based View of the Firm 9: J.-C. Spender: Knowledge, Uncertainty, and an Emergency Theory of the Firm 10: Georg von Krogh & Simon Grand: From Economic Theory Toward a Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm: Conceptual Building Blocks 11: Ard Huizing & Wim Bouman: Knowledge and Learning, Markets and Organizations: Managing the Information Transaction Space Part III: Knowledge Strategies 12: Sidney G. Winter & Gabriel Szulanski: Replication of Organizational Routines: Conceptualizing the Exploitation of Knowledge Assets 13: Ron Sanchez: Modular Product and Process Architectures: Frameworks for Strategic Organizational Learning 14: Raghu Garud & Arun Kumaraswamy: Technological and Organizational Designs for Realizing Economies of Substitution 15: Michael H. Zack: Developing A Knowledge Strategy 16: Paul Bierly III & Paula Daly: Aligning Human Resource Management Practices and Knowledge Strategies: A Theoretical Framework 17: Chong Ju Choi & Anastasios Karamanos: Knowledge and the Internet: Lessons from Cultural Industries Part IV: Knowledge Strategy in Practice 18: Constance E. Helfat & Ruth Raubitschek: Product Sequencing: Coevolution of Knowledge, Capabilities, and Products 19: Anne Marie Knott: Exploration and Exploitation as Complements 20: Vincent Barabba, John Pourdehnad & Russell L. Ackoff: Above and Beyond Knowledge Management 21: William H. Starbuck: Keeping a Butterfly and an Elephant in a House of Cards: The Elements of Exceptional Success 22: Mihnea Moldoveanu: Epistemology in Action: A Framework for Understanding Organizational Due Diligence Processes 23: Youngjin Yoo & Ben Torrey: National Culture and Knowledge Sharing in a Global Learning Organization: A Case Study Part V: Knowledge Creation 24: Ikujiro Nonaka: A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation 25: Katsuhiro Umemoto: Managing Existing Knowledge Is Not Enough: Knowledge Management Theory and Practice in Japan 26: Kazuo Ichijo: Knowledge Exploitation and Knowledge Exploration: Two Strategies for Knowledge Creating Companies 27: Dorothy Leonard & Sylvia Sensiper: The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Group Innovation 28: Seija Kulkki: Knowledge Creation of Global Companies Part VI: Knowledge Across Boundaries 29: Harald M. Fischer, Joyce Brown, Joseph F. Porac, James B. Wade, Michael DeVaughn & Alaina Kanfer: Mobilizing Knowledge in Interorganizational Alliances 30: Melissa M. Appleyard: How Does Knowledge Flow? Interfirm Patterns in the Semiconductor Industry 31: Will Mitchell, Joel A. C. Baum, Jane Banaszak-Holl, Whitney B. Berta & Dilys Bowman: Opportunity and Constraint: Chain-to-Component Transfer Learning in Multiunit Chains of U.S. Nursing Homes, 1991-1997 32: Claudio U. Ciborra & Rafael Andreu: Knowledge across Boundaries: Managing Knowledge in Distributed Organizations 33: Deborah Sole & Amy Edmondson: Bridging Knowledge Gaps: Learning in Geographically Dispersed Cross-Functional Development Teams 34: Sharon F. Matusik: Managing Public and Private Firm Knowledge within the Context of Flexible Firm Boundaries Part VII: Managing Intellectual Capital 35: Nick Bontis: Managing Organizational Knowledge by Diagnosing Intellectual Capital: Framing and Advancing the State of the Field 36: Nick Bontis: Intellectual Capital: An Exploratory Study That Develops Measures and Models 37: Steve Pike, Anna Rylander & Göran Roos: Intellectual Capital Management and Disclosure 38: Janine Nahapiet & Sumantra Ghoshal: Social Capital, Intellectual Capital, and the Organizational Advantage 39: Donna Marie De Carolis: The Role of Social Capital and Organizational Knowledge in Enhancing Entrepreneurial Opportunities in High Technology Environments 40: Mary Crossan & John Hulland: Leveraging Knowledge through Leadership of Organizational Learning Appendix 41: Brian Hackett: Beyond Knowledge Management: New Ways to Work Index

A well-balanced illustration of the concepts that surround the strategic management of intellectual capital and knowledge, with interesting and relevant papers arranged into logical sections chapters throughout the book.

• Contributors 1: Chun Wei Choo & Nick Bontis: Knowledge, Intellectual Capital, and Strategy: Themes and Tensions Part I: Knowledge in Organizations 2: Paul S. Adler: Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism 3: Frank Blackler: Knowledge, Knowledge Work, and Organizations: An Overview and Interpretation 4: Max Boisot: The Creation and Sharing of Knowledge 5: Chun Wei Choo: Sensemaking, Knowledge Creation, and Decision Making: Organizational Knowing as Emergent Strategy 6: Charles Despres & Daniele Chauvel: Knowledge, Context, and the Management of Variation Part II: Knowledge-Based Perspectives of the Firm 7: Kathleen R. Conner & C. K. Prahalad: A Resource-Based Theory of the Firm: Knowledge versus Opportunism 8: Robert M. Grant: The Knowledge-Based View of the Firm 9: J.-C. Spender: Knowledge, Uncertainty, and an Emergency Theory of the Firm 10: Georg von Krogh & Simon Grand: From Economic Theory Toward a Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm: Conceptual Building Blocks 11: Ard Huizing & Wim Bouman: Knowledge and Learning, Markets and Organizations: Managing the Information Transaction Space Part III: Knowledge Strategies 12: Sidney G. Winter & Gabriel Szulanski: Replication of Organizational Routines: Conceptualizing the Exploitation of Knowledge Assets 13: Ron Sanchez: Modular Product and Process Architectures: Frameworks for Strategic Organizational Learning 14: Raghu Garud & Arun Kumaraswamy: Technological and Organizational Designs for Realizing Economies of Substitution 15: Michael H. Zack: Developing A Knowledge Strategy 16: Paul Bierly III & Paula Daly: Aligning Human Resource Management Practices and Knowledge Strategies: A Theoretical Framework 17: Chong Ju Choi & Anastasios Karamanos: Knowledge and the Internet: Lessons from Cultural Industries Part IV: Knowledge Strategy in Practice 18: Constance E. Helfat & Ruth Raubitschek: Product Sequencing: Coevolution of Knowledge, Capabilities, and Products 19: Anne Marie Knott: Exploration and Exploitation as Complements 20: Vincent Barabba, John Pourdehnad & Russell L. Ackoff: Above and Beyond Knowledge Management 21: William H. Starbuck: Keeping a Butterfly and an Elephant in a House of Cards: The Elements of Exceptional Success 22: Mihnea Moldoveanu: Epistemology in Action: A Framework for Understanding Organizational Due Diligence Processes 23: Youngjin Yoo & Ben Torrey: National Culture and Knowledge Sharing in a Global Learning Organization: A Case Study Part V: Knowledge Creation 24: Ikujiro Nonaka: A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation 25: Katsuhiro Umemoto: Managing Existing Knowledge Is Not Enough: Knowledge Management Theory and Practice in Japan 26: Kazuo Ichijo: Knowledge Exploitation and Knowledge Exploration: Two Strategies for Knowledge Creating Companies 27: Dorothy Leonard & Sylvia Sensiper: The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Group Innovation 28: Seija Kulkki: Knowledge Creation of Global Companies Part VI: Knowledge Across Boundaries 29: Harald M. Fischer, Joyce Brown, Joseph F. Porac, James B. Wade, Michael DeVaughn & Alaina Kanfer: Mobilizing Knowledge in Interorganizational Alliances 30: Melissa M. Appleyard: How Does Knowledge Flow? Interfirm Patterns in the Semiconductor Industry 31: Will Mitchell, Joel A. C. Baum, Jane Banaszak-Holl, Whitney B. Berta & Dilys Bowman: Opportunity and Constraint: Chain-to-Component Transfer Learning in Multiunit Chains of U.S. Nursing Homes, 1991-1997 32: Claudio U. Ciborra & Rafael Andreu: Knowledge across Boundaries: Managing Knowledge in Distributed Organizations 33: Deborah Sole & Amy Edmondson: Bridging Knowledge Gaps: Learning in Geographically Dispersed Cross-Functional Development Teams 34: Sharon F. Matusik: Managing Public and Private Firm Knowledge within the Context of Flexible Firm Boundaries Part VII: Managing Intellectual Capital 35: Nick Bontis: Managing Organizational Knowledge by Diagnosing Intellectual Capital: Framing and Advancing the State of the Field 36: Nick Bontis: Intellectual Capital: An Exploratory Study That Develops Measures and Models 37: Steve Pike, Anna Rylander & Göran Roos: Intellectual Capital Management and Disclosure 38: Janine Nahapiet & Sumantra Ghoshal: Social Capital, Intellectual Capital, and the Organizational Advantage 39: Donna Marie De Carolis: The Role of Social Capital and Organizational Knowledge in Enhancing Entrepreneurial Opportunities in High Technology Environments 40: Mary Crossan & John Hulland: Leveraging Knowledge through Leadership of Organizational Learning Appendix 41: Brian Hackett: Beyond Knowledge Management: New Ways to Work Index

A well-balanced illustration of the concepts that surround the strategic management of intellectual capital and knowledge, with interesting and relevant papers arranged into logical sections chapters throughout the book.

• Contributors 1: Chun Wei Choo & Nick Bontis: Knowledge, Intellectual Capital, and Strategy: Themes and Tensions Part I: Knowledge in Organizations 2: Paul S. Adler: Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism 3: Frank Blackler: Knowledge, Knowledge Work, and Organizations: An Overview and Interpretation 4: Max Boisot: The Creation and Sharing of Knowledge 5: Chun Wei Choo: Sensemaking, Knowledge Creation, and Decision Making: Organizational Knowing as Emergent Strategy 6: Charles Despres & Daniele Chauvel: Knowledge, Context, and the Management of Variation Part II: Knowledge-Based Perspectives of the Firm 7: Kathleen R. Conner & C. K. Prahalad: A Resource-Based Theory of the Firm: Knowledge versus Opportunism 8: Robert M. Grant: The Knowledge-Based View of the Firm 9: J.-C. Spender: Knowledge, Uncertainty, and an Emergency Theory of the Firm 10: Georg von Krogh & Simon Grand: From Economic Theory Toward a Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm: Conceptual Building Blocks 11: Ard Huizing & Wim Bouman: Knowledge and Learning, Markets and Organizations: Managing the Information Transaction Space Part III: Knowledge Strategies 12: Sidney G. Winter & Gabriel Szulanski: Replication of Organizational Routines: Conceptualizing the Exploitation of Knowledge Assets 13: Ron Sanchez: Modular Product and Process Architectures: Frameworks for Strategic Organizational Learning 14: Raghu Garud & Arun Kumaraswamy: Technological and Organizational Designs for Realizing Economies of Substitution 15: Michael H. Zack: Developing A Knowledge Strategy 16: Paul Bierly III & Paula Daly: Aligning Human Resource Management Practices and Knowledge Strategies: A Theoretical Framework 17: Chong Ju Choi & Anastasios Karamanos: Knowledge and the Internet: Lessons from Cultural Industries Part IV: Knowledge Strategy in Practice 18: Constance E. Helfat & Ruth Raubitschek: Product Sequencing: Coevolution of Knowledge, Capabilities, and Products 19: Anne Marie Knott: Exploration and Exploitation as Complements 20: Vincent Barabba, John Pourdehnad & Russell L. Ackoff: Above and Beyond Knowledge Management 21: William H. Starbuck: Keeping a Butterfly and an Elephant in a House of Cards: The Elements of Exceptional Success 22: Mihnea Moldoveanu: Epistemology in Action: A Framework for Understanding Organizational Due Diligence Processes 23: Youngjin Yoo & Ben Torrey: National Culture and Knowledge Sharing in a Global Learning Organization: A Case Study Part V: Knowledge Creation 24: Ikujiro Nonaka: A Dynamic Theory of Organizational Knowledge Creation 25: Katsuhiro Umemoto: Managing Existing Knowledge Is Not Enough: Knowledge Management Theory and Practice in Japan 26: Kazuo Ichijo: Knowledge Exploitation and Knowledge Exploration: Two Strategies for Knowledge Creating Companies 27: Dorothy Leonard & Sylvia Sensiper: The Role of Tacit Knowledge in Group Innovation 28: Seija Kulkki: Knowledge Creation of Global Companies Part VI: Knowledge Across Boundaries 29: Harald M. Fischer, Joyce Brown, Joseph F. Porac, James B. Wade, Michael DeVaughn & Alaina Kanfer: Mobilizing Knowledge in Interorganizational Alliances 30: Melissa M. Appleyard: How Does Knowledge Flow? Interfirm Patterns in the Semiconductor Industry 31: Will Mitchell, Joel A. C. Baum, Jane Banaszak-Holl, Whitney B. Berta & Dilys Bowman: Opportunity and Constraint: Chain-to-Component Transfer Learning in Multiunit Chains of U.S. Nursing Homes, 1991-1997 32: Claudio U. Ciborra & Rafael Andreu: Knowledge across Boundaries: Managing Knowledge in Distributed Organizations 33: Deborah Sole & Amy Edmondson: Bridging Knowledge Gaps: Learning in Geographically Dispersed Cross-Functional Development Teams 34: Sharon F. Matusik: Managing Public and Private Firm Knowledge within the Context of Flexible Firm Boundaries Part VII: Managing Intellectual Capital 35: Nick Bontis: Managing Organizational Knowledge by Diagnosing Intellectual Capital: Framing and Advancing the State of the Field 36: Nick Bontis: Intellectual Capital: An Exploratory Study That Develops Measures and Models 37: Steve Pike, Anna Rylander & Göran Roos: Intellectual Capital Management and Disclosure 38: Janine Nahapiet & Sumantra Ghoshal: Social Capital, Intellectual Capital, and the Organizational Advantage 39: Donna Marie De Carolis: The Role of Social Capital and Organizational Knowledge in Enhancing Entrepreneurial Opportunities in High Technology Environments 40: Mary Crossan & John Hulland: Leveraging Knowledge through Leadership of Organizational Learning Appendix 41: Brian Hackett: Beyond Knowledge Management: New Ways to Work Index