Crowdsourcing is a new, online-based, way of outsourcing that relies on large and undefined networks of people. This process has been used by several successful organizations to solve their internal Innovation challenges with very good results. Assuming that, at a fundamental level, Innovation results from the creation and application of organizational knowledge, this work aims to better unders...

Purpose – This paper aims to analyze how organizational conditions, technology adoption, supplier relationship management and customer relationship management affect knowledge creation through socialization-externalization combination, internalization (SECI) modes, and various ba, as proposed by Nonaka and Konno, in a supply chain. Design/methodology/approach – A qualitative inquiry with themat...

Software Process Improvement (SPI) is a systematic approach to improve the capabilities of a software organization. This study shows the result of a collaborative research initiative in which an SPI project has been performed and analyzed as organizational knowledge creation. The study explains how knowledge is created through transformation between tacit and explicit knowledge and through inte...

Knowledge management (KM) has been recognized as one of the most important issues for sustaining competitive advantage. In order to achieve KM effectively, past research argued that it is important to facilitate and leverage knowledge assets. However, few studies examine knowledge processes and enablers that may influence the accumulation of knowledge assets. To fill this gap, drawing on dynami...

Many organisations have embraced intranets with the intent of harnessing the technology to support knowledge management initiatives. Despite the promise that intranet technology holds in this regard, many of the early research studies indicate rather disappointing results. In this paper we propose a model that organisations can use to conceptualise and reflect on their intranet applications wit...

Successful approaches to developing knowledge acquisition tools use expectationsof what the user has to add or may want to add, based on how new knowledge fits within a knowledge base that already exists. When a knowledge base is first created or undergoes significant extensions and changes, these tools cannot provide much support. This paper presents an approach to creating expectations when a...

A comprehensive model that delineates the interrelationships among ‘user involvement’, ‘knowledge cognition’, ‘organizational mechanisms’, and ‘knowledge creation’ is absent. This study aims to fill this void. Unlike previous research, this study examined the issues of effective knowledge management from two perspectives: individuals, i.e. user involvement and knowledge cognition, and organizat...

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With the increasing pace of change and global competition that dominates the services market a demand for an efficient and lean structure, but at the same time a creative organisation is called for. Organisations within the services market referred to as professional services organisations (PSOs) are therefore eagerly searching for improved ways of managing these rather contrasting issues. Prof...