As the Internet emerges as a new venue for many business activities, a new organizational form called virtual communities has emerged and rapidly spread out across the entire sector of industry to take advantage of the efficiency of communications technologies. In the knowledge era, such online communities are increasingly being regarded as a cyberspace in which individuals and organizations ca...

Collective knowledge, consisting of tacit group-embedded knowledge, is a key element of organizational capabilities. This study undertakes a multiple-case study of the transfer of collective knowledge, guided by a set of tentative constructs and propositions derived from organizational learning theory. By focusing on the group-embeddedness dimension of collective knowledge, we direct our attent...

Organizational control is one of the fundamental functions of management. Although controls come along with performance constraints, organizations rely on control mechanisms to direct attention, motivate, and encourage organizational members to act according to organizational goals and objectives. Managers build their decision on control design on the degree of knowledge about the value creatio...

the aim of this research is to study the relationship between organizational culture and the new measure to evaluate the organization' performance. powerful organizational culture has significantly related with organizational’ performance and it is going to be expected to create value in the organization. but, when the cultural values support organizational adaptation to environmental, the...

Knowledge management can be defined as a set of processes that includes knowledge creation, storage, dissemination, application, and measurement within the organization. As any other organizational process, knowledge management should be evaluated in order to verify if it is achieving the expected results. The aim of this paper is to relate metrics with the knowledge management process phases. ...

The current competitive environment is characterized by new sources of information, new technologies, new management practices, new competitors, and shorter product life cycles, which highlights the importance of organizational knowledge in manufacturing companies. We integrate some of those knowledge-based approaches seeking to understand how aspects related to cross-functional orientation, ne...

The information context of the modern organization is rapidly evolving in the face of intense global competition. Information technologies, including databases, new telecommunications systems, and software for synthesizing information, make a vast array of information available to an ever expanding number of organizational members. Management’s exclusive control over knowledge is steadily decli...

Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD), as any organizational process, is carried out beneath a Knowledge Management (KM) model adopted (even informally) by a corporation. KDD is grossly described in three steps: pre-processing, data mining, and post-processing. The latter is mainly related to the task of transforming in knowledge the patterns issued in the data mining step. On the other hand, ...

This paper presents an analysis of institutional influences upon knowledge creation within professional service firms whose main business is the provision of consultancy services. Such firms, we argue, provide an important setting for examining such influences because their survival depends on their ability to mobilize and synthesize professional bodies of knowledge. They, therefore, directly c...