Resource-Based View of Knowledge Management for Competitive Advantage

Authors

Leila A. Halawi, Nova Southeastern UniversityFollow
Jay E. Aronson, University of Georgia
Richard V. McCarthy, Quinnipiac University

Submitting Campus

Worldwide

Department

Management & Technology

Document Type

Article

Publication/Presentation Date

12-2005

Abstract/Description

We are not only in a new millennium, but also in a new era: the knowledge era. Sustainable competitive advantage is dependent on building and exploiting core competencies. The resource-based view (RBV) of the firm defines a strategic asset as one that is rare, valuable, imperfectly imitiable and non-substitutable. Knowledge is seen as a strategic asset with the potential to be a source of competitive advantage for an organization. In this paper, we provide a model that examines how and why knowledge management (KM) can be sued to create competitive advantage from the RBV of the firm.

Publication Title

The Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management

Publisher

Academic Conferences and Publishing International Ltd.

Additional Information

Dr. Leila Halawi was not affiliated with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at the time this paper was published.

Scholarly Commons Citation

Halawi L, Aronson J and McCarthy R (2005) “Resource-Based View of Knowledge Management for Competitive Advantage” The Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management Volume 3 Issue 2, pp 75-86, available online at www.ejkm.com