Leveraging knowledge assets: combinative capabilities - theory and practice

Abstract

Since the publication of Prahalad and Hamel's seminar paper on core competencies, leveraging technological competencies has become a topic in the resource-based literature. This conceptual paper focuses on the creation of combinative capabilities and explains the logic of leveraging resources by combining them. Further more, the paper explains on which company levels combination can be expected to occur and how firms can apply such combinations to commercial ends.