Knowledge Management systems are one of the key strategies that allow companies to fully tap into their collective knowledge. However, two main entry barriers currently limit the potential of this approach: i) the hurdles employees encounter discouraging them from a strong and active participation (knowledge providing) and ii) the lack of truly evolved intelligent technologies that allow those ...

Collaboration in information-intensive work environments is enabled through information systems that facilitate the information and knowledge exchange between collocated employees. As prior research suggests, social media platforms are a promising solution to realize electronic networks of practice bridging the gap between knowledge seeker and experts as a source of knowledge in an effective ma...

Modern people possess the capacity to divide themselves into separate modules of thought and action, and deploy them flexibly (Gellner, 1994). The employment relationship, which divides the tasks and skills required for the job role from the rest of the person, has always relied upon this modular capacity (Kallinikos, 2003). The growing practice of ‘informatizing’ work by representing tasks as ...

As people transform data, information and experiences into shared corporate knowledge, the management of individual competencies has become increasingly important to knowledge intensive organisations (KIO). Knowledge gained during the normal execution of daily tasks is easily lost in the new and more dynamic business environment. The ability to find versatile employees and to be able to leverag...

Knowledge integration is becoming a primary function of improving organizational capabilities and performance in today’s convergence environment in which the integration of individual knowledge is the source of organizational knowledge creation for new product and service development. This study investigates the influential factors of employee’s knowledge integration capability and its effects....

Increasing capabilities of intelligent video surveillance systems impose new threats to privacy while, at the same time, offering opportunities for reducing the privacy invasiveness of surveillance measures as well as their selectivity. We show that aggregating more data about observed people does not necessarily lead to less privacy, but can increase the selectivity of surveillance measures. I...

This study examines organizational factors that affect the implementation of business process reengineering (BPR) when applying two specific Information Technologies (i.e., electronic data interchange and/or Internet technology). This research uses a survey methodology to gather information about how organizational enablers and IT affect BPR implementation. By determining the factors that affec...

Access to a pool of talented employees is an important element of entrepreneurial firms’ ability to build innovative capabilities. Through an empirical examination of two European biotechnology clusters – Cambridge, UK, and Munich, Germany – we investigate the degree to which macro-labor market institutions shape the micro-dynamics of career affiliation networks between scientific employees. Us...

Abstract The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between acquisitions and mobility knowledge workers managers in small technology companies how individual skills capabilities moderate relationship. Relying on matched employer–employee data Swedish high-tech sectors from 2007 2015, we find that increase likelihood employee departures, mainly form switching another employer, ...

Industry 4.0 forces increased digitization, production flexibility, improvement of employee competences and integration employees IT systems within an enterprise. To this end, state-of-the-art solutions, such as the Virtual Reality (VR) Augmented (AR), are implemented. New must be integrated with existing architecture, their implementation enterprise to provide network access sufficient bandwid...