A Modelling Relationship between Firm Strategic Advantages and Organizational Edge

The paper show the relationship between firm-specific-advantages (FSA) and how these can aid gaining an organization’s competitive edge in the present turbulent business environment. These firm specific advantages FSAs include Human Capital, Organization Culture, and Organization Structure (Verbeke 2009) and how these can lead towards organizational edge, and to provide a conceptual framework for the analysis of human capital management in learning organizations. Discourse on competitive advantage is of wide prevalence, clear definitions are rare and it is often used interchangeably with concepts like distinctive competence (Day and Wensley, 1988). Advantage is a relative concept (Hu, 1995; Kay, 1993), only meaningful when compared to another entity or set of entities. A competitive advantage, then, is an advantage one firm has over a competitor or group of competitors in a given market, strategic group or industry (Kay, 1993) and this Firm-Specific Advantages is discussed in this paper

A Modelling Relationship between Firm Strategic Advantages and Organizational Edge

The paper show the relationship between firm-specific-advantages (FSA) and how these can aid gaining an organization’s competitive edge in the present turbulent business environment. These firm specific advantages FSAs include Human Capital, Organization Culture, and Organization Structure (Verbeke 2009) and how these can lead towards organizational edge, and to provide a conceptual framework for the analysis of human capital management in learning organizations. Discourse on competitive advantage is of wide prevalence, clear definitions are rare and it is often used interchangeably with concepts like distinctive competence (Day and Wensley, 1988). Advantage is a relative concept (Hu, 1995; Kay, 1993), only meaningful when compared to another entity or set of entities. A competitive advantage, then, is an advantage one firm has over a competitor or group of competitors in a given market, strategic group or industry (Kay, 1993) and this Firm-Specific Advantages is discussed in this paper. Keywords: Human Capital, Competitive Edge, Organization culture, Organization structur

An Analysis of Knowledge Management for the Development of Global Health

Recently knowledge management (KM) has become very important part of the everyday work in healthcare practices. The KM transforms a health organization into a learning organization able to generate new knowledge, create knowledge systems and base organizational actions on knowledge in healthcare. It makes the close and long-term relationship among healthcare providers and patients to create a greater mutual understanding, trust, and patient involvement in decision making. The paper discusses telemedicine, information technology, efficient nursing system, medical errors and reduction of these errors, healthcare cooperation among different healthcare providers in healthcare systems. It briefly discusses healthcare strategy in four developed and developing countries. This paper investigates the creation, sharing, storing and utilization of knowledge in medical science. The aim of this study is to apply the concept of KM and to investigate the use of KM to the health sector. An attempt has been taken here to discuss overview of KM, its methods and techniques, and applications of efficient KM in health sector

Tacit knowledge, time and practice in two dementia services: an ethnography

This inquiry considers the importance of tacit knowledge, and how it might be characterised in an NHS memory service and a local authority day-care and respite service for people with dementia. When investigating the sorts of knowledge that might be valuable in helping individuals affected by dementia-type memory problems, service settings offer good prospects for locating empirical enquiry. Interactions between people with dementia, practitioners and carers invariably occur at points such as assessment, diagnosis and care-giving. Through in situ observations of interactions between health and care practitioners, people with dementia and carers, the knowledge repertoires of each were considered. This thesis explores how these knowledge repertoires differ, yet when they come together in practice situations it becomes apparent that each individual's knowledge is potentially valuable for making sense of the situation. In the memory service knowledgeable accounts from individuals and carers regarding when and how memory problems first appeared are imparted to the clinician. This knowledge, along with the clinician's knowledge, is brought to bear in determining memory status. In the social care setting 'getting to know' individuals - whose abilities to articulate their own accounts may be fading - requires spending time together during which a sense of the individual can be gained. The explicit-tacit knowledge mix in any practice situation is unproblematic unless an account of, or justification for practice is required. Qualities of knowledge that render this impossible are that tacit knowledge is inarticulable linguistically; and, in any given instance there are no known means of differentiating between the involvement of either tacit or explicit knowledge. To attend to these difficulties an alternative way of seeing tacit knowledge is explored, whereby different understandings of tacit knowledge are surfaced when its relatedness to 'time' and 'practice' is considered. A set of notional knowledge-time-practice convergences are put forward