submitted to Themed Session 1 ‘Inter-Organizational Knowledge Creation through Informal Organising’ of MOPAN – 15 th Annual Conference on Multi-Organizational Partnerships, Alliances and Networks, Sawyer Business School, Suffolk University, Boston, USA, 25-27 June 2008.

the aim of this study was to determine the structural equation model of knowledge management and organizational innovation. the statistical population consisted of all employees of sport and youth offices in khorasan razavi province (n=380). the sample was selected by simple random sampling method using morgan table (n=191). to collect data, two questionnaires of knowledge management (sheron an...

This paper considers the relation between organizational demography and organizational learning. It focuses on communication and consciousness as the knowledge creating process of organizations and individuals, respectively. Demography relates to communication structures in that these become inert with increasing tenure of participants; likewise, individuals adopt a specific communication style...

This paper contributes to the innovation literature by re-examining both the outcome and process perspective of organizational innovation from a knowledge-based perspective. First, we reconceptualize innovation as a duplicable, new and useful knowledge outcome. Building on the notion that knowledge is inherently social in nature, we then develop a model of organizational innovation as a process...

Knowledge is recognized as an important weapon for sustaining competitive advantage and many companies are beginning to manage organizational knowledge. Researchers have investigated knowledge management factors such as enablers, processes, and performance. However, most current empirical research has explored the relationships between these factors in isolation. To fill this gap. this paper de...

As knowledge becomes a crucial asset to organization’s survival, an efficient knowledge management policy should be set up and should result into an organizational memory. Similarly, an effective eLearning program must be implemented in the organization and exploit the organizational memory to manage competence evolution. In this paper, we introduce a framework to manage organizational knowledg...

This paper proposes a work guide for analyzing the process of organizational knowledge creation in an academic research project, integrating basic concepts in several existing knowledge creation theories. This guide has been developed during the evaluation of projects. We present results of the process analysis of projects that finished recently. We certify evidences of the concepts and remark ...

Complexity science frequently addresses the self-referential aspects of complex adaptive systems. Recent research in organization theory similarly refers to these systems as autopoietic. This paper reformulates existing theories of organizational learning and knowledge in terms of autopoietic organization theory. Within this framework, communication is the basic organizational operation. Organi...