Analysis regarding information, knowledge and learning as strategies in response to systemic competitive environment

Abstract

From the viewpoint of competition systemic accelerated by a factor of globalization, coupled with the constantly changing market provided by the global economic crisis, it creates a highly unstable and competitive scenario in which several organizational strategies turn out to be insufficient, sometimes leading many companies to succumb. In this context, it is noted that several firms in the newly industrializing countries such as Asia, rekindle the question of the importance of using learning and knowledge as a foundation to overcome the waves of turbulence present in capitalism. Based on this background, this paper proposes an initial discussion of the terms information, knowledge and learning by relying on contributions from Information Science, and subsequently investigated by the research literature, the verification of various authors the area of Business Administration study the subject.