the corporate entrepreneurship (ce) of firms and enterprises is the subject of current research in the fields of management and business. however, analyses on this subject in agricultural firms are lacking. the purpose of this research was to study the relationships between corporate entrepreneurship and firm performance in agricultural small and medium-sized enterprises (asmes) in iran. specif...

introduction: nowadays, knowledge management is one of the most effective factors in competitive advantages and success among organizations. therefore, this study aimed to assess the principles of knowledge management in teaching hospitals of iran university of medical sciences. methods: this applied descriptive cross-sectional study included 30 senior managers in ten teaching hospitals associa...

since we cannot manage what we cannot control, and we cannot control what we do not measure, the measurement of knowledge management (km) effectiveness is a very important issue. this study aims at developing a methodology to evaluate the km effectiveness under fuzziness in research organizations. in order to develop such a methodology and to define measures of km effectiveness, first the relev...

purpose: this study was designed to investigate the association between knowledge creation and   organizational innovation among the staff of tehran university of medical sciences (tums).   materials and methods: in this descriptive correlational study, 132 individuals from tums   employees were randomly selected based on cochran’s formula. the questionnaires of knowledge   creation management ...

this paper explored the multiple relationships between intellectual capital (ic) and knowledge management (km) in an iranian university. for intellectual capital, three components were studied including: relational capital, structural capital and human capital. for knowledge management, five processes were considered, namely creation, acquisition, codification, sharing and application. the rela...

With organisational work increasingly performed by the collaboration of distributed groups, an improved understanding is needed of the co-creation of knowledge in emerging virtual structures. We explore the potential of the ubiquitous organisational tool, electronic mail (e-mail), for supporting collaborative knowledge creation in such settings. This research draws on a case study of knowledge ...

Knowledge has become to be considered as valuable strategic assets that can provide proprietary competitive advantages. It is more important for companies to distinguish themselves through knowledge management strategies. Without a constant creation of knowledge, a business is condemned to poor performance. However, it is still unclear how these strategies affect knowledge creation. Knowledge m...

To advance understanding on knowledge creation through social computing, we posed two research questions: What are the processes underlying knowledge creation online? What is the role of tacit knowledge in online communication? We note that even if the online environment is beset with apparent limitations due to physical distance, tacit knowledge is by no means absent. It enables individuals to...

Knowledge management and knowledge creation is recognized to be of supreme importance to the competitive advantage of organisations as well as a major agent of change in the new era of the knowledge economy. This study empirically examines knowledge creation activities in the context of the banking industry. It extends the work of Nonaka and Takeuchi (1995) and others on the theory of organisat...