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Volume 3 Issue 2 October 2005
Resource-Based View of Knowledge Management for Competitive Advantage
Leila A. Halawi1, Jay E. Aronson2, and Richard V. McCarthy3
1Nova Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, USA
2Terry College of Business, The University of Georgia, Athens, USA
3Lender School of Business, Quinnipiac University, Hamden, USA
lahalawi@nova.edu
jaronson@uga.edu
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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 imitable 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 used to create competitive advantage from the RBV of the firm.
Keywords:
Knowledge management (KM), knowledge management systems (KMS), resource-based view of the firm (RBV), sustained competitive advantage.
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Biograpy:
Jay E. Aronson: (B.S., M.S., M.S., Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University ) is a professor of Management Information Systems in the Terry College of Business at The University of Georgia. Prior to this he was on the faculty at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Aronson is the author of about 50-refereed papers that have appeared in leading journals including Management Science , Information Systems Research , MIS Quarterly , and Decision Sciences . He is the author of four books (including Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems ), and contributes to several professional encyclopaedias. He is also a consultant to major international corporations and organizations. Dr. Aronson's current areas of research include knowledge management, revenue management, collaborative computing, network optimization, and parallel computing.
Department of Management Information Systems, Terry College of Business, The University of Georgia, Brooks Hall, Athens, GA 30602-6273
Phone: 706.542.0991
Fax: 706.583.0037
www.terry.uga.edu/people/jaronson/
Richard V. McCarthy : (B.S., Central Connecticut State University , MBA, Western New England College , DBA, Nova Southeastern University ) is an associate professor of Computer Information Systems at the Lender School of Business, Quinnipiac University . Prior to this, Dr. McCarthy was an associate professor of management information systems at Central Connecticut State University . He has twenty years of experience in the insurance industry and has held the Charter Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU) designation since 1991. He has authored several journal articles and contributed to the current edition of the textbook Decision Support Systems and Intelligent Systems . His current research interests include knowledge management, data mining and information systems strategy.
Department of Computer Information Systems, Lender School of Business, Quinnipiac University , 275 Mount Carmel Ave., Hamden , CT 06518 , USA
Phone: 203.582.8468
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