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Knowledge Integration through Strategic Alliances and Virtual Networks
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Author(s): César Camisón (Universitat Jaume I, Spain), Beatriz Forés (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)and María Eugenia Fabra (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)
Copyright: 2011
Pages: 10
Source title:
Encyclopedia of Knowledge Management, Second Edition
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): David Schwartz (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)and Dov Te'eni (Tel-Aviv University , Israel)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-931-1.ch057
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Abstract
According to the Knowledge-Based View, knowledge integration is one of the main capabilities that organizations must possess in today’s markets. In some high-tech industries, especially sciencebased industries such as biotechnology that need to integrate different bases of specialized expertise, the sources of knowledge are spread across a great variety of organizations. Strategic alliances are an option that may solve problems of speed or cost in these cases. Hence, in this chapter we identify advantages that inter-organizational cooperative agreements may have in the creation of knowledge, with a special emphasis on the case of strategic alliances in which the main aim is the joint creation of knowledge between partners and not simply the appropriation of this knowledge by one of the members of the agreement. In a second phase, we argue that virtual networks add more advantages to this type of alliance because of their special features. We define the virtual network as a strategic, temporary agreement between organizations that collaborate and coordinate their work through information technologies. This dimension adds greater flexibility to strategic alliances. We identify a virtual network typology by analyzing their properties and their value for the integration of knowledge.
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