strategic performance evaluation of an organization within the industry environment is one of the basic and most important prerequisites of organizational improvement plans. in today’s knowledge-based economy and dynamic environment, it is essential for universities as the centers of education, knowledge creation and knowledge worker evolvement. till now, variant models with different approache...

knowledge management is a process that has been recently generated as an activity which is very important in the dynamic environment, and in the competitive scene. we believe that km is a process which its organizational knowledge is created from the individual knowledge of the members of the organization. the relevant studies have indicated that organizing based on work teams could be consider...

This paper describes and analyses the creation and development of an Academic Health Science Centre (AHSC) as a major organizational innovation diffusing in the health knowledge economy, internationally. Drawing on an institutionalist model utilized in an earlier study of a failed merger in the USA (Kitchener, 2002), we explore empirically why the creation of this new AHSC in the UK produced ve...

OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION AALTO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY P.O. BOX 11000, FI-00076 AALTO Author Pauli Alin Name of the dissertation Crossing organizational boundaries: Probing knowledge transformation in the context of interorganizational collaborative strategy process development Manuscript submitted 5 February 2010 Manuscript revised 26 March 2010 Date of the defence 21 May 2...

In today's knowledge-based economy, an organization's ability to strategically leverage knowledge has become a crucial factor for global competitiveness. Knowledge is considered an important source of establishing and maintaining competitive advantage. Specifically, knowledge sharing and resultant knowledge creation are crucial for organizations to gain and sustain competitiveness. The aim of t...

In today's turbulent business environment, organizations face the need to rapidly respond to demands, explore new opportunities, apply evolving technologies, and create novel competitive advantages. Knowledge Management (KM) and Organizational Entrepreneurship (OE) are two strategic tools through which companies can concurrently improve their competitive advantage while seeking new potential op...

The paper aims to contribute to a better understanding of knowledge creation in a context not researched extensively so far, the virtual context. Claiming that knowledge is connected to the context in which is created, the paper argues that knowledge creation could be differentiated by the specific characteristics of virtuality. The process of knowledge creation is conceptualised using a theore...

Knowledge management (KM) and organizational learning (OL) have developed in both divergent and convergent ways. In particular, these fields have relatively distinct intellectual traditions and conditions that gave rise to disciplines, as well as a certain level of disparity in research focus and view of knowledge. For example, KM focuses more on the content of knowledge and products of managin...

Recently, many organizations realize that knowledge is a strategic tool for maintaining organizational performance. With the realization that knowledge is a core resource, organizations are now attempting to manage knowledge in a more systematic and more effective way. The theory of organizational knowledge creation suggests the sharing of tacit knowledge is a critical component of successful k...

“Socio-Semantic Web”(S2W) applications, such as “Knowledge-Based MarketPlaces” (KBMs), lead to co-construct symbolic organizational artifacts including “maps” or others semantic instruments, bringing a visibility and a reflexivity of the knowledge and of the action in communities. In presenting and comparing examples of KBMs, we note that the creation and the whole lifecycle of such S2W applica...