外文翻译---对于一个企业的知识基础型理论.doc

中文3125字 本科毕业论文外文翻译 外文题目： TOWARD A KNOWLEDGE-BASED THEORY OF THE FIRM 出 处：School of business, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, U.S.A 作 者 ROBERT M. GRANT TOWARD A KNOWLEDGE-BASED THEORY OF THE FIRM ROBERT M. GRANT School of business, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, U.S.A Given assumptions about the characteristics of knowledge and the knowledge requirements of production, the firm is conceptualized as an institution for integrating knowledge. The primary contribution of the paper is in exploring the coordination mechanisms through which firms integrate the specialist knowledge of their members. In contrast to earlier literature, knowledge is viewed as residing within the individual, and the primary role of the organization is knowledge application rather than knowledge creation. The resulting theory has implicatious for the basis of organizational capability, the principles of organization design (in particular, the analysis of hierarchy and the distribution of decision-ranking authority), and the determinnants of the horizontal and vertical boundaries of the firm. More generally, the knowledge-based approach sheds new light upon current organizational innovations and trends and has farreaching implications for management practice. Foudation The foundation for any theory of the firm is a set of initial premises which form the basis for the logical development of propositions concerning the structure, behavior, performance and indeed, the very existence of firms. Developing a knowledge-based theory of the firm raises the issue: What is knowledge? Since this question has intrigued some of the worlds greatest thinkers from Plato to Popper without the emergence of a clear consensus, this is not an arena in which I choose to compete. In terms of defining knowledge, all I offer beyond the simple tautology of `that which is known is the recognition that there are many types of knowledge relevant to the firm. For t