Legal Knowledge in Organizations : A Source of Strategic and Competitive Advantage

This book fundamentally rethinks the role of law in business by seamlessly integrating legal knowledge into business practice to create and capture value. It is ideal for legal and management scholars and practitioners who want to understand how legal and business professionals can cooperatively create a sustainable competitive advantage.

This work offers a step-by-step guide on how to utilize the law as a source of value in organizations. Robert C. Bird demonstrates how legal knowledge can be a valuable asset for firms, providing them with a sustainable competitive advantage that is difficult for rivals to imitate. Bird presents a five-part framework that outlines how firms can use legal knowledge in competitive markets and how they can avoid misusing it. Chapters also highlight how firms can cultivate legal knowledge and apply novel risk tools to overcome unexpected legal threats. The book emphasizes the importance of ethical values in business decisions and shows how managers and lawyers can build an ethical practice of legal knowledge that benefits both business and society. With the help of numerous visuals, this book makes it easy for readers to leverage legal knowledge and apply it to specific business contexts.