Sociologists and organizational theorists have long claimed that the processes of knowledge creation and distribution are fundamentally social. Following in this tradition, we explore the effect of institutional prestige on university technology licensing. Empirically, we examine the influence of university prestige on the annual rate of technology licensing by 102 universities from 1991 to 199...

In this paper, we discuss agile software process improvement in P company with their description of process management in current level and analysis of problems, design the P Company success factors model in organizational culture, systems, products, customers, markets, leadership, technology and other key dimensions, which is verified through questionnaire in P company. In the end, we apply kn...

Open innovation is increasingly important for researchers and practitioners alike. Open innovation is closely linked to knowledge creation in that, with open innovation, knowledge inflows and outflows are exploited for innovation. In the information systems field, open innovation has been closely linked to open source software development teams. However, the literature has not yet identified ho...

Knowledge is a broad and abstract notion that has defined epistemological debate in western philosophy since the classical Greek era. In the past Richard Watson was the accepting senior editor for this paper. MISQ Review articles survey, conceptualize, and synthesize prior MIS research and set directions for future research. For more details see http://www.misq.org/misreview/announce.html few y...

Given assumptions about the characteristics of knowledge and the knowledge requirements of production, the firm is conceptualized as an institution for integrating knowledge. The primary contribution of the paper is in exploring the coordination mechanisms through which firms integrate the specialist knowledge of their members. In contrast to earlier literature, knowledge is viewed as residing ...

Knowledge is a broad and abstract notion that has defined epistemological debate in western philosophy since the classical Greek era. In the past ' ~ i cha rdWatson was the accepting senior editor for this paper. 'MISQ Review articles survey, conceptualize, and synthesize prior MIS research and set directions for future research. For more details see http:llwww.misq.orglmisreviewlannounce.html ...

in new millennium, we encourage with rapid changes in technologies and complexity of environment. in such situations, create sustainable competitive advantage, requires new type of organization that have the ability to create qualitative knowledge. higher education institutes including agricultural faculties to meet challenges ahead, require knowledge creation and manage it. so, managers of agr...

From the resource-based view of the firm to the knowledge-based view of the firm it is clear that a particular intangible resource has become the cornerstone of sustainable competitive advantage (Barney, 1986; Conner, 1991; Foss, 1996; Lippman and Rumelt, 1982; Penrose, 1959). This resource is organizational knowledge. According to Peteraf’s framework (1993) “four conditions must be met for a f...

Knowledge management can be enhanced by creating conditions that facilitate knowledge creation, thus the concepts of teamworking, thinking styles and innovation are central to the effective utilization of knowledge. This paper presents the results of a survey of 156 civil servants at Putrajaya, investigating relationships between teamworking and thinking styles with technology diffusion and inn...

Purpose – The idea that knowledge management can be a potential source of competitive advantage has gained strength in the last few years. However, a number of business actions are needed to generate an appropriate environment and infrastructure for knowledge creation, transfer and application. Among these actions there stands out the design of an organizational structure, the link of which wit...