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The improvement of the performance, through the retrieval of resources, neither available internally nor achievable autonomously, can be reached by going beyond traditional firm boundaries and by enforcing an external relationship system: proliferation of networks, partnerships, and inter\u2010organizational collaborations should be, consequently, triggered. The purpose of this paper concerns the evaluation of knowledge impact on relationships among the members of an inter\u2010organizational collaboration. It also aims to suggest conditions for the improvement of knowledge management in different types of knowledge\u2010based inter\u2010organizational collaborations.<\/jats:italic><\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Design\/methodology\/approach<\/jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>Critical success factors of the networked organizations have been defined. Distinctive characteristics, that cannot be disregarded, whatever the environment, have been singled out from literature analysis; successively, they have been arranged into a classification schema to design knowledge\u2010based collaboration types. Properties of knowledge and peculiarities of knowledge management processes (identification, creation, storage, sharing\/distribution, application, and capitalization\/refinement) have been assessed according to the types of the collaborations.<\/jats:italic><\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Findings<\/jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>The theoretical framework can be applied by network managers to adopt the most favourable knowledge management strategy and process, independent of the distinctive characteristics of the collaborations.<\/jats:italic><\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title content-type=\"abstract-heading\">Originality\/value<\/jats:title><jats:p><jats:italic>The paper provides a theoretical framework to arrange the knowledge\u2010based inter\u2010organizational collaborations into an innovative classification schema on the basis of their cognitive, strategic and structural aspects.<\/jats:italic><\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1108\/13673271011050094","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,6,5]],"date-time":"2010-06-05T07:06:44Z","timestamp":1275721604000},"page":"348-358","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":78,"title":["Knowledge\u2010based inter\u2010organizational collaborations"],"prefix":"10.1108","volume":"14","author":[{"given":"Livio","family":"Cricelli","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Michele","family":"Grimaldi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"140","reference":[{"key":"key2022032119415716300_b1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Andriessen, D. 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