Nowadays, organizations are experiencing revolutionary change due to the advent of Enterprise 2.0 or enterprise usage of social networking tools. Practitioners and researchers are in their early stages experimenting with social media in organizational contexts. The central concern is how the enterprise usage of social media could be converted into the improved organizational performance. Organi...

The importance of identifying and filling knowledge gaps has been recognized to be an important factor in the survival and growth of alliances. In filling these knowledge gaps, organizations put in place a series of organizational knowledge processes which lead them to socially interact with their alliance partners. Knowledge is here understood not as an object or as a resource to be packaged a...

Can a firm accelerate its learning curve if knowledge about the production function is incomplete? This article identifies a production line specifically set up to create technological knowledge about its production function through scientific experimentation (formal learning) as opposed to learning by doing. The organizational structure of this line was very successful in creating technologica...

In today’s highly dynamic business environment, organizational creativity is one of the most important sources of competitive advantage. Although the unpredictability of creativity makes it difficult to plan for, it may still be possible to facilitate knowledge creation given that we understand what affects it. In this paper, seven enabling factors of organizational creativity are identified an...

(2011) "Knowledge processes, knowledge-intensity and innovation: a moderated mediation analysis", Journal of Knowledge Management, Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine innovation from a knowledge-based view by exploring the effect of knowledge processes and knowledge intensity on innovation performance. Design/methodology/approach – First, a theoretical model of the connections bet...

Knowledge science is a problem-oriented interdisciplinary field that takes as its subject the modeling of the knowledge creation process and its application, and carries out research in such disciplines as knowledge management, management of technology, support for the discovery, synthesis and creation of knowledge, and innovation theory with the aim of constructing a better knowledge-based soc...

Knowledge accumulated over centuries is often manifested in the form of ethics, culture, as well as technological, social, and economic developments of a society. At the organizational level, its growth in terms of wealth, collaborative working culture, business processes, and productivity are true reflections of its accumulated knowledge. In short, knowledge is linked to progress in practicall...

The purpose of the current conceptual article is to discuss the practice-based approach (Practice-Based Studies, PBS) to knowledge and knowing, and how its adoption enables the design of approaches to support knowledge creation, communication, and use in organizational contexts, in a way that is close to what matters to workers’ practices and that acknowledges the situatedness and in-betweeness...

Organizational learning is a set of processes by which organizations improve their performance. Performance processes consist of one or more goals, outcome measures, constituent steps, and relevant people, artifacts, and knowledge. Learning processes furthermore require that the organization anticipates and attends to feedback, creates knowledge from that feedback, and takes action based on tha...

knowledge creation and innovation is recognized to be of paramount importance to the competitive advantage of organizations in modem economics. this research empirically investigates the creation of new knowledge. to analyze data, we used regression. the results indicate that intention, requisite variety, individual autonomy, project autonomy and redundancy are highly associated with successful...