• The world growingly aware that the sustainable competitive advantage depends on the firm’s resources.
• Among the resources the knowledge and knowledge management (KM) is one of the main drivers of the firm’s competiveness.
• Basic “grounding principles” and theoretical underpinnings for the knowledge are yet to be developed.
• Spanish banking industry and its business model is gaining more and more weight in world post-crisis financial industry.
• Extracting this embedded knowledge from the Spanish banking industry could foster world’s understanding of financial models, which eventually is applicable for other industries.
• Exchange of the findings in the field created by Professor Ikujiro Nonaka, above all, between Europe and Asia is to be furthered.
• Differentiations
  
  • Basic research on knowledge and KM
  • Applied research for the benefit of practitioners
  • Codification of best practices
  • Research on the banking industry as one of the less studied in management research
  • Linkage between the academics and practitioners
  • Linkage of US/European/Asian researchers