Title :
Building the Competitive Advantage of SMEs in High-tech Industry on Knowledge Management View
Author :
Guiqing, QI ; Xihuai, Yang ; Zhuo, Xiao
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Bus. Adm., Northeastern Univ.
Abstract :
On resourced-based review (RBV), small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in high-technology industry usually explore competitive advantages through internal special resources. Recent studies on young, high-tech firms have highlighted that in practice these types of businesses also acquire competitive advantages through relationships and the structure involving knowledge blocking. This paper reconfigures a more comprehensive framework to explore knowledge management business practices among SMEs. Drawing on resources-based theories, the relational-based views, industry structure and ecosystem theories about sources of competitive advantage, this paper presents the co-opetitive organizational knowledge network of the SMEs in high-tech industry, and analyses the approaches through which SMEs can create competitive advantages on knowledge-based review (KBV)
Keywords :
knowledge management; organisational aspects; small-to-medium enterprises; RBV; SME; business practices; co-opetitive organizational knowledge network; competitive advantage; ecosystem theories; high-tech industry structure; knowledge management; relational-based view; resourced-based review; small-and medium-sized enterprises; Aerospace industry; Collaborative software; Ecosystems; Extranets; Industrial relations; Information management; Information technology; Internet; Knowledge management; Knowledge transfer; SMEs; competitive advantage; knowledge management;
Conference_Titel :
Service Systems and Service Management, 2006 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Troyes
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0450-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0451-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICSSSM.2006.320610
