According to resource based view, using this unused knowledge for expansion can increase growth performance through strategic knowledge management.
Resource based view stresses that a firm’s resource endowment can bea source of profits as long as these resources are heterogeneous in the same industry (Amit and Schoemaker, 1993; Barney, 1991), while heterogeneity resources are of great importance for productive opportunity of a firm (Penrose, 1995).