Cognitive categorization of firms functioning competitive advantageous source
The article deals with different theoretical approaches to knowledge investigation, that consider to be a main source of competitive advantageous forming in terms of postindustrial stage of society development. The issue gives us comparative analysis of knowledge conceptions: knowledge as a factor of production in information society, knowledge as an intellectual capital, explicit knowledge, knowledge as a compound social benefit, knowledge as a venturesome factor. All the above conceptions allow us to define knowledge as a complex dynamic system that provides fundamentally new competitive source of firms functioning and development.