In recent years, particular attention has been paid to knowledge management and organizational learning in general and tacit knowledge management and organizational memory in particular. This interest is driven by saturation of various markets, innovation speed and increasingly uncertain environments that have led companies to organize and structure themselves as parts of supply chains, by focu...

There are different perspectives on the study of knowledge in organizations, developed in economics, sociology, anthropology and organization theory. Several authors followed Schumpeter’s idea that innovations are new combinations of existing knowledge and incremental learning. Kogut and Zander further developed this idea and defined knowledge as a portfolio of options, and emphasized the impor...

We link up with the recent literature on the differentiated MNC with its stress on intra-MNC knowledge flows. However, rather than focusing on the characteristics of knowledge as determinants of knowledge transfer within MNCs, we focus instead on levels of knowledge in subsidiaries, the sources of transferable subsidiary knowledge, and on the organizational means and conditions that realize kno...

one of the strategies for achieving the knowledge-based economy and wealth creation is high technologies transfer. depending on their needs, all governments and knowledge-based corporations are transferring high technologies at different technology readiness levels. in this study, the researcher seeks to identify and rank the individual and organizational factors affecting high technologies tra...

This paper reports findings from an exploratory series of case studies undertaken to better understand the impacts of digitization on organizational and knowledge recombination. While ‘digitalized firms’ are expected to frequently update their knowledge (e.g., big data analyses, ‘smarter’ products) and organizational structures (e.g., agile team structures, open innovation approaches), we know ...

The knowledge creation effective factors were found in both necessary elements for stimulus of knowledge creation and the key influencing factors of software project success. The research was carried with the specific successful practices of Microsoft Corporation and William Johnson’s analysis of R & D project knowledge creation. The knowledge creation effective factors in requirement developme...

We argue that beyond metaphors, according to which learning is a process of knowledge acquisition by individual learners (a “monological” approach) or participation to social interaction (a “dialogical” approach), one should distinguish a “trialogical” approach, i.e., learning as a process of knowledge creation which concentrates on mediated processes where common objects of activity are develo...