The knowledge-based view of the firm: Implications for management practice

W HAT IS DIFFERENT ABOUT MANAGING THE ‘postindustrial’ enterprise in a ‘knowledge-based economy’? A stream of recent management books1-5 outline some of the implications of knowledge-based work and knowledge-based competition for the business manager. These books are one outcome of a surge of recent research into the role of knowledge within the firm and the consequences for management theory. This emerging area of theory and practice has become...