Title
Corporate Library Resource Selection: Exploring Its Support for Corporate Core Competencies
Abstract
Many scholars and professionals have noted in recent years that the United States is experiencing a transformation to an economy based upon knowledge. However, researchers have only begun to explore how the essence of such an economy, the creation of wealth by organizations through their use of information, works empirically. This study provides such exploratory empirical research. It uses concepts from library and information science and strategy to build a theoretical model describing the relationships between the selection activities of corporate libraries and the competencies of their parent firms. The research results are testable statements of a theoretical model. These reveal that the breadth and depth of the parent corporations’ intellectual strengths are supported by corporate library selection activity that is intense, moderately centralized, formalized, moderately specific, relatively open to user input, and highly automated.
Document Type
Article
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1086/520996
Publication Date
10-1-2007
Recommended Citation
Edgar, William B. "Corporate library resource selection: exploring its support for corporate core competencies." The Library Quarterly 77, no. 4 (2007): 385-408.
Journal Title
The Library Quarterly
