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The Road Less Travelled: A New Perspective On Sustained Competitive Advantage Through Knowledge Creation

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O Riordan, Niamh 
Adam, Frédéric 
O'Reilly, Philip 
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/7471
Date Issued
13 June 2012
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Abstract
Knowledge and intellectual capital have become the primary bases upon which organisations construct their core competencies and are increasingly seen as the key to superior organisational performance (Lubit, 2001). At the same time, both the need to and difficulty associated with developing sustainable competitive advantages are rapidly increasing (ibid.). This paper argues that two roads lead to sustained competitive advantage in firms. The well-travelled road is largely based on conceptualising knowledge in terms of information and data and attempting to leverage organisational knowledge by focusing on the management and utilisation of information in organisations. The road less travelled is based on recognising the power of knowledge in general, and knowledge creation in particular, to stimulate creativity and innovation in organisations leading to sustained competitive advantage. On this road, it is recognised that truly innovative organisations 'do not simply process information… they actually create new knowledge and information, from the inside out, in order to redefine both problems and solutions and, in the process, to re-create the environment' (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995, p.56). Despite the promise of the road less travelled, existing perspectives on knowledge creation are beset with a variety of epistemological and methodological problems. This paper develops a new perspective on knowledge creation by delving into existing conceptualisations and classifications of knowledge in literature, exploring the philosophical assumptions upon which they are based, probing the conceptual and methodological issues that surround these views and articulating a new perspective on knowledge creation to guide future research efforts.
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Conference Publication
Publisher
ESADE
Keywords
  • Innovation

  • Knowledge

  • Knowledge creation

  • Knowledge management

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http://niamhoriordan.com/publications/
http://ecis2012files.esade.edu/
Language
English
Status of Item
Peer reviewed
Description
European Conference On Information Systems, Barcelona, Spain, 10 - 13 June, 2012
This item is made available under a Creative Commons License
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/
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