Strategic Knowledge Management Technology

Strategic Knowledge Management Technology applies the knowledge-based view of the firm which builds on the resource-based theory. The value shop is identified as the typical value configuration for knowledge firms. This book applies a stages of growth model for knowledge management technology where firms develop from the person-to-tools strategy via the person-to-person strategy and the person-to-documents strategy to the person-to-systems strategy. The case of law firms is extensively explored. IS/IT strategy for knowledge management is developed within the framework of the Y model.