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Technological knowledge assets in industrial firms
Author(s) -
DíazDíaz Nieves Lidia,
AguiarDíaz Inmaculada,
SaáPérez Petra
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
randd management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.253
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1467-9310
pISSN - 0033-6807
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9310.2006.00425.x
Subject(s) - business , affect (linguistics) , knowledge management , process (computing) , fixed asset , industrial organization , economics , computer science , philosophy , linguistics , production (economics) , macroeconomics , operating system
This research focuses on identifying and measuring the technological knowledge assets that constitute the basis of the knowledge management process and on the study of contextual factors that determine their use. To that end, a longitudinal study of 1,444 Spanish industrial firms between 1998 and 2000 was conducted using information gathered by the Survey of Business Strategies. The results enable us to identify technological knowledge assets with different levels of codification and to have a general view of how age, size and sector affect the use of those assets by Spanish industrial firms.