Turning strategies into value: Managing knowledge boundary intersection capabilities as strategic assets - Softcover

Hui, Loi Teck

Softcover

ISBN 10: 365917484X ISBN 13: 9783659174841

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

Business world is globalized and dynamic. The internet and brand extension, namely, have eroded traditional entry barriers. Conventional strategy models need to be reconceived for managerial relevance. Industrial organization (IO) and Resource-based view (RBV) explain different viewpoints on how a firm can achieve above average returns. This book examines their interactive effects in three different knowledge contexts: operations management, international business and organizational resource capabilities. An effective strategy is possible when there is a good fit between the organizational internal (RBV) and external (IO) effects. The findings from the rigorous triangulation case research on two interesting Chinese firms and an emerging firm suggest that, the interfaces between the IO and the RBV facilitate rent generation and are not necessarily boundaries. Though both paradigms have different performance dimensions, a firm's capabilities of managing their interfaces in all organizational aspects constitute tacit strategic knowledge assets that generate competitive advantages. Scholars and managers shall find the book providing new insights on strategic and international management.

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About the Author:

LOI TECK HUI holds a MSC (Engineering Business Management) with distinction from the University of Warwick, UK and a MBA from Edinburgh Business School. He has received rigorous doctoral training at world leading universities in the areas of strategy, international management and CSR.  His research works have appeared in major international refereed journals and books such as International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Accounting Forum, Industry and Higher Education, International Journal of Social Economics, Palgrave MacMillam, Edward Elgar, World Scientific, and Emerald Publishing. He also reviews regularly for several international refereed journals, and has received outstanding reviewer awards.  He had worked in a Big Four firm, a British international bank and a Chinese state-owned enterprise.  He is a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), UK and an approved company secretary.  Currently, he is a chartered accountant in public practice and a strategy and CSR consultant.  He teaches occasionally at local and international universities.

About this edition

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 365917484X
• ISBN 13: 9783659174841
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264