Mastering tacit corridors for competitive advantage: Cross‐cultural knowledge creation and sharing at four international firms

Abstract

We are currently experiencing a seismic shift toward the knowledge-based economy. Both practitioners and theorists seem to agree that knowledge is one of the most important of all intangible resources for firms. In effect, we are in the midst of a knowledge revolution, in which knowledge is the most important intangible resource for securing human progress and well-being. Technological development and globalization have between them so conspired that we are fast-tracking toward a globally integrated network structure in which firms' products and services are the result of international collaborations among many different organizationsand across cultural boundaries of varying complexity and intelligibility.