Resource-Based View of Knowledge Management for Competitive Advantage

By Leila A. Halawi, J. Aronson, Richard V. McCarthy. 2005

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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

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• Job embeddedness, work engagement and turnover intention of staff in a higher education institution: An exploratory study (2013, background): “Talent retention is becoming more essential as an organisation’s human capital increasingly becomes the key source of competitive advantage (Halawi et al., 2005; Pfeffer, 2005).”