Knowledge management and organizational competitiveness

Organizational Autopoiesis and Knowledge Management Organizational Autopoiesis and Knowledge Management

This paper presents a biological view of knowledge and organizations formulated to provide a framework for understanding organizational knowledge and organizational knowledge management systems. This framework extends ideas based Karl Popper's (1972) epistemology of objective knowledge; Maturana and Varela's (1980, 1987) ideas of autopoiesis as extended to organizations by von Krogh and Roos (1...

Knowledge Management, technology, strategy, and competitiveness

The results showed that although the three dimensions are not individually related to plant competitiveness (direct effects perspective), their co-alignment impacts strongly on plant competitiveness (co-alignment perspective). Furthermore, this co-alignment creates an environment in which employee suggestion and feedback can add innovation, leading to superior plant competitiveness (mediation p...

Knowledge Management, Organizational Memory and Organizational Learning

We began the Organizational Memory (OM) mini-track at HICSS-27. The purpose was to “provide a forum for information systems and other related researchers and practitioners to share ideas and theories about organizational memory and organizational memory systems.” This forum proved highly successful generating more than 30 papers over a 5-year period, including some that were later revised and p...

Capturing Tacit Knowledge from Transient Workers: Improving the Organizational Competitiveness

This article studies the way tacit knowledge is dealt with in a high turnover business environment through a qualitative research approach in an engineering organization with respect to organizational culture and values and the effect in competitive stance. The study found peer review process and managerial/supervisory style to be effective in enabling new employees in a short time with knowled...

Organizational Knowledge Creation and Management