Hacia una conceptualización del conocimiento de la empresa: un análisis ontológico
Keywords:
competitive advantage, intellectual capital, ontological level, organizational knowledgeAbstract
Strategic Management literature recognises the importance of certain intangible resource to achieve a sustained competitive advantage for the firm. However, the own features of these intangible resources –idiosyncratic nature, causal ambiguity,social complexity, time compression diseconomies – make difficult to manage them.Furthermore there is a category of resources that are especially difficult to managedue to its complexity: the intellectual capital. It is a group of resources based on knowledge with strategic importance for the firm and that does not have legal protection. The aim of this paper is to provide an ontological analysis of organizational intangible resources that are not in the financial accounts of the firm and are not legally protected (that is, the intellectual capital). With this goal, the paper will analyze knowlegde stocks that exist in the organization at individual, group and organizational level respectively.References
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