Reflections on knowledge-based approaches to the organization of production

Robert Grant ()

Journal of Management & Governance, 2013, vol. 17, issue 3, 558 pages

Abstract: Knowledge-based approaches to the firm offer valuable insights into some of the central issues of governance and organizational design—especially into long neglected problems of coordination. I start from the assumption that the fundamental problem of economic organization is reconciling efficiency in knowledge development with efficiency in knowledge application. The paper extends the knowledge-based view of the firm and knowledge integration approach to organizational capability that I outlined in earlier papers (Grant in Strategic Management Journal, 1996a ; Grant in Journal of Management Studies 7(4)375–387, 1996b ) and draws upon subsequent contributions to the literature. From this basis, I derive implications for the relative efficiencies of alternative institutions of economic organization and for the design of firm structures. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media, LLC. 2013

Keywords: Knowledge; Organization; Coordination; Integration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/s10997-011-9195-0

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