Many organizations have embraced intranets with the intent to harness the technology to support knowledge management initiatives. Despite the promise that intranet technology holds in this regard, many of the early research studies indicate rather disappointing results. In this paper we propose a model that organizations can use to conceptualize and reflect on their intranet applications with a...

The focus of most of the current literature on inter-organizational learning has been on how a firm acquires knowledge from its alliance partners. While knowledge acquisition is an important process, a firm may not effectively learn through such process, especially when the knowledge is complex, tacit, and embedded. Further, despite the increasing importance of networks, current research on int...

Web 2.0 has been in the foray for a while playing an important role in threading business processes, various departments, systems and key stakeholders (within firms) to activate customer participation and involvement. In order to re-emphasize customer centricity, firms have been using SCRM (Social Customer Relationship Management) approach as a part of their CRM (Customer Relationship Managemen...

Both knowledge-creation and knowledge-sharing are viewed as very significant for competitiveness of an organization in modern knowledge economy. Contemporary literature usually treats these two processes as either independent or positively related. However, analyzing various organizational conditions for efficient course of these processes, we proposed that in some cases they may contradict eac...

This work examines the importance of interorganizational supply chain relationship from a network perspective. We have tried to find the answer of the following questions; how does knowledge sharing effect network value in an inter-organizational business network? What is the influence of knowledge sharing in creating new knowledge? This paper makes a significant and substantial contribution to...

The central argument of the paper is that knowledge management practices fail to adequately address the complexities of organizational ignorance. The paper begins with a brief overview of knowledge management and an account of how this management technique can lead to the neglect of the unknown as well as the creation of ignorance. The nature of ignorance and its relation to knowledge is then c...

IntroductIon Over the last decade the fields of knowledge management and organizational learning have developed rapidly, showing increasing diversity and specialization in the academic literature. Ikujiro Nonaka has played a leading role in setting standards and earning academic legitimacy for the emergent field of " organizational knowledge management " (Easterby-Smith & Lyles, 2003). In the p...

Inter-organizational knowledge networks have been considered vital for the knowledge economy, particularly for small and medium size enterprises in knowledge-based industries, since knowledge creation often happens within those networks. Hence an interesting question to explore is: how do knowledge networks serve to contribute to knowledge creation? Beyond the role of network structure, which h...

nowadays, most of the experts believe that organizations should select effective ways for diffusing organizational knowledge among their human resources. bias and his coworkers believe that the principal aspect of each enterprise is creation and transmission of interorganizational knowledge. therefore, the necessity of recognition and use of effective ways for sharing and transmission of knowle...