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The following list of books, journals, films, TV programmes and web links are especially recommended as resources you may find helpful for further study on the subject of 'The Internal Environment: A Resource-Based View of Strategy'
Barney, J (2007) Gaining and Sustaining Competitive Advantage, Third Edition, Pearson (Chapter 5).
Barney is a well known exponent the Resource Based View. He provides a useful framework for evaluating resources and competences. It is known as the VRIO framework – Value, Rarity, Imitability, Organization.
Davenport and Prusak (2000) Working Knowledge: How organizations manage what they know, second edition, Harvard Business Review Press (chapters 3, 4, 5).
The authors provide practical guidance in a very readable way on a range of issues that influence how knowledge can be leveraged.
Collins, D (2000) Management Fads and Buzzwords: Critical-practical Perspectives, Routledge. (chapter 10).
The author deconstructs some of the major fashions in management in the 1990s. Chapter 10 on knowledge work is complementary to the study of the resource-based view of the firm.
Argyris, C (1991) ‘Teaching Smart People How to Learn’, Harvard Business Review, 69(3), p99-109.
Argyris discusses the concept of single-loop and double-loop learning. He argues that even the smartest people in organizations don’t learn effectively.
Rowley, J (2006) ‘What do we need to know about wisdom?’, Management Decision, 44(9).
Wisdom sounds like a valuable resource – but what is it and how is it different to knowledge?
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