Knowledge integration is becoming a primary function of improving organizational capabilities and performance in today’s convergence environment in which the integration of individual knowledge is the source of organizational knowledge creation for new product and service development. This study investigates the influential factors of employee’s knowledge integration capability and its effects....

Management research has often overlooked the role of knowledge and knowledge management (KM) in the analysis of organizations and their performance. Also, the literature on KM is short of empirical evidence on the likely interrelatedness of the KM processes. This investigation adopted a research model and used data from 38 Egyptian software firms to examine: (1) the relationship of the KM proce...

Software Process Improvement (SPI) is a systematic approach to improve the capabilities of a software organization. This study shows the result of a collaborative research initiative in which an SPI project has been performed and analyzed as organizational knowledge creation. The study explains how knowledge is created through transformation between tacit and explicit knowledge and through inte...

Smooth communication through Face-to-face communication across hierarchy has been currently recognized as a critical method for organizational knowledge sharing and knowledge creation. However, these previous research findings are not applicable to telework environment which has much limited face-to-face communication compared with the traditional organization. Although knowledge creation resea...

The core of the organizational learning theory was that the organizational learning activities were the source of organizational value creation. The research focus of organizational learning theory was to discuss the socialization process of organizational learning from the perspective of social capital and its specific impact on the performance of organizational knowledge transfer. Previous st...

Understanding the formation of supply chain flexibility is important. We draw on the organizational learning perspective to examine how inter-organizational systems (IOS) enabled collaborative knowledge creation can enhance the supply chain flexibility. Empirical results from 141 supply chain enterprises support most of our hypotheses. The results show that, (1) IOS use for exploration has posi...

This paper proposes a conceptual model for organizational knowledge creation and management, known as the 7C model. The model is based on the distinction of individual and organizational knowledge and explicit and tacit knowledge. The 7C model suggests that the seven Cs (Connection, Concurrency, Comprehension, Communication, Conceptualization, Collaboration, and Collective intelligence) play a ...