Building a Model of Successful Collaborative Learning for Company Innovativeness

Agata Sudolska,Andrzej Lis

doi:10.7341/20141035

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to develop a model of successful collaborative learning for company innovativeness. First of all, the paper explores the issue of inter-firm learning, focusing its attention on collaborative learning. Secondly, inter-firm learning relationships are considered. Thirdly, the ex ante conditions of collaborative learning and the intra-organizational enhancers of inter-firm learning processes are studied. Finally, a model of the critical success factors for collaborative learning is developed.

Highlights

Nowadays, the ability to learn is perceived as one of the most important intangible assets that a firm can possess
A model of the critical success factors for collaborative learning We propose a model (Figure 1) providing an insight into the interrelations among critical factors for successful collaborative learning occurring in interfirm relationships
We are aware that the identified critical success factors for collaborative learning require further research in order to study them thoroughly

Summary

Introduction

The ability to learn is perceived as one of the most important intangible assets that a firm can possess This corresponds with the view that knowledge is a very suitable resource to be used for building the enterprise’s competitive advantage (Amit and Schoemaker, 1993; Prahalad and Hamel, 1990). 62) “the competitive advantage of companies in today’s economy stems not from market position, but from difficulty to replicate knowledge assets and the manner in which they are deployed”. This opinion refers to the fact that knowledge meets the most important characteristics of strategic resources necessary to build long term competitive advantage. As a typical strategic resource, is: valuable, rare, difficult to imitate and difficult to replace by other resources (cf. Barney, 1991)

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