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Recent Articles by Alan Burton-Jones
THE KNOWLEDGE-BASED FIRM:
STRATEGIES FOR GROWTH AND COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE
Contemporary
business strategies frequently reflect an outmoded vision of the
firm, based on industrial era concepts of production factors and
associated competitive dynamics. Viewed through such traditional
lenses, knowledge is typically viewed as a commodity like labour,
materials or money to be organized and managed using traditional
methods. As a result, critical differentiating features of knowledge
are overlooked, links between knowledge and business strategy are
misperceived, and knowledge management strategies either never get
off the ground or produce suboptimal results.
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THE KNOWLEDGE SUPPLY MODEL: A FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPING EDUCATION
AND TRAINING IN THE NEW ECONOMY.
The increasing economic importance of knowledge is redefining firm-market
boundaries, work arrangements and the links between education work
and learning. This article proposes a new framework: the Knowledge
Supply Model, which helps individuals, firms and learning institutions
understand the dynamics of change and emerging patterns of knowledge
demand and supply in different sectors of the economy. It also
assists learning institutions to tailor their products and services
to the needs of knowledge consumers. Read
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