Human capital plays an important role and acts as a strategic resource that helps firms achieve strategic competitiveness. In the global business context, understanding the expectations and behaviors of employees in different cultures is paramount for international and multicultural organizations to succeed. This paper examines the task and relationship orientations as well as the work overload...

a Technology Foresight Group, Department of Management, Science and Technology, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran b Office of Sustainabilty, Amirkabir University of Technolgy, Tehran, Iran c Futures Studies Research Institute, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran d Aalto University, School of Science, P.O. Box 14100, FI-00076 Aalto, Espoo, Finland e Escuela Técnica Su...

The authors of this paper believe that scholarly work on knowledge management (KM) has largely overlooked ethical considerations. As such, this paper argues for the infusion of ethical considerations into knowledge management (KM) research. Using the lens of the classical ethical theories in philosophy, this paper revisits key areas of KM—knowledge creation, storage and access, transfer, and ap...

Noting the general paucity of ethical considerations in Knowledge Management (KM) research, this research commentary articulates the relevance of ethics to KM. Drawing from the classical ethical theories in philosophy, it revisits certain research focuses raised in Alavi and Leidner’s (2001) well-known paper on KM and generates corresponding ethically-informed research questions. The main aim o...

The aim of this article is to evaluate the importance of innovation for entrepreneurship environment in the context of current economic conditions. Throughout the last century, industry leaders learnt to master the production process to such an extent that now it no longer functions as a significant competitive advantage. Every entrepreneur is now facing a harsh and highly competitive business ...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to analyse leadership cycles based on knowledge creation, with learning and culture as key elements for reaching leadership. Following Ikujiro Nonaka’s viewpoint about knowledge creation in Japanese firms, this paper seeks to provide a link between knowledge management and change in leaders. Design/methodology/approach – The developed analysis is theoretical a...

Purpose – This article attempts to begin the process of removing the cloak of causal ambiguity by examining the role that knowledge management has in the creation of the wide variety of competitive advantages found in some organizations. Specifically, this article aims to extend understanding in the field of knowledge management by examining how knowledge management can affect organizational pe...

This paper proposes a conceptual framework that details the main component features for modeling of knowledge growth. It contributes important insights to future studies in the field of knowledge management to design a theoretical and operational model of knowledge growth in enhancing organizations’ knowledge capital. The paper is a contribution to the body of knowledge as it helps enhance the ...

There is surprisingly little literature specifically concerned with theorising and conceptualising of the transfer and sharing of complex information and/or knowledge, despite the fact that its significance is widely and without restriction acknowledged throughout the (mostly Anglo-American) literature on knowledge management and organisational learning. It is the aim of this paper to provide a...

Optical Flow Analysis (OFA) has recently been introduced as a fast, easy, and reliable means of extracting articulatory information from ultrasound video ([2], [3], [6], [9]). This paper illustrates how one primary measurement that is extracted using OFA, magnitude of movement, correlates with the standard phonological vowel categories of height and backness. By establishing a baseline for thes...