Absorptive capacity and the implementation of knowledge-intensive best practices.

The growing attention to organizational innovation in manufacturing firms mirrors the sustainable competitive advantage sustained by superior dynamic capabilities. Knowledge-based competition has magnified the importance of learning alliances as a fast and effective way to unravel such capabilities. To achieve a competitive advantage, firms ne better quality, improved efficiency, innovation, and customer experience. This requires a constant search for of recent origin tools and management opportunities that would provide these competencies. provide chain management, total quality management, business proces reengineering, enterprise resource planning, customer relationship management, e-commerce and knowledge management are a certain number of of these tools. Many firms, however, are obstructed from adopting ...