Learning and Knowledge Management in the Firm

Gabriela Dutrénit, Professor, Department of Economics and Postgraduate Program in Economics and Management of Innovation, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco and General Coordinator, Scientific and Technological Advisory Forum, Mexico

• Contents: 1. Introduction Part I: Theoretical and Contextual Background 2. Building Technological Capabilities in Different Theoretical Traditions 3. The Role of Knowledge Management in Re-building Strategic Capabilities 4. Methodology 5. Overview of the Technology, the Industry and the Firm Part II: The Process of Building Up Technological Capabilities from the Earliest Days On 6. The Process of Building up the Minimum Essential Knowledge Base: 1909–70 7. Starting a Transition Process Towards Building up Strategic Capabilities, 1970–90 8. The Fragility of the Transition Process in the 1990s Part III: Knowledge Management Problems Underlying the Truncated Transition Process 9. Features of Knowledge Management Contributing to the Truncated Transition Process 10. Factors Influencing the Knowledge Management Features 11. Conclusions Bibliography Index

'. . . this is a substantive contribution to the literature on capability development, one which breaks new ground on a hitherto little understood aspect of the knowledge management literature: knowledge management issues related with transition stage. . . Few researchers have addressed the full complexity of the transition process of capability development, drawing on such an impressive set of data and over such an extended period of time. By doing so, the book provides a range of new insights into knowledge management issues related with the process of capability development, namely, those related to the organizational knowledge creation within a latecomer firm. It should be read and discussed.'