in today’s global economy, the fundamental attribute of competitiveness have been driven from pecuniary capital to knowledge capital so that knowledge is known as the unique strategic resource to acquire competitive advantage. therefore, businesses that efficiently utilize existing knowledge within their organizations are expected to gain comparative advantage over their competitors. this resea...

Information, learning and knowledge creation in communities of practice: a case study. This research aimed to investigate the functioning of communities of practice, considering the following aspects: information processing, learning and creation of tacit knowledge. The investigation was made in Service Desk Microcity, mediumsized company with a high level of computerization, which offers IT ma...

The core of the organizational learning theory was that the organizational learning activities were the source of organizational value creation. The research focus of organizational learning theory was to discuss the socialization process of organizational learning from the perspective of social capital and its specific impact on the performance of organizational knowledge transfer. Previous st...

The increased importance of knowledge creation and use to firms’ global competitiveness has spawned considerable experimentation with organizational designs for product development and commercialization over the last three decades. This paper discusses innovation-related organizational design developments during this period, showing how firms have moved from stand-alone organizations to multifi...

This paper contributes to the innovation literature by re-examining both the outcome and process perspective of organizational innovation from a knowledge-based perspective. First, we reconceptualize innovation as a duplicable, new and useful knowledge outcome. Building on the notion that knowledge is inherently social in nature, we then develop a model of organizational innovation as a process...