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Purpose – Tacit knowledge is often difficult to define, given its inexpressible characteristics. Literature review highlights the impact of tacit knowledge on certain knowledge management topics and these include organizational learning, intellectual capital, knowledge management strategy and so forth, but some research gaps remain. The paper aims to propose directions for future research in [...]
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Purpose – This paper aims to analyze manufacturing strategy process (MSP) from a KBV of the firm. MSP considers the ways that manufacturing organizes its resources in order to create/strengthen manufacturing-related capabilities. In this context, managers often are under pressure for finding quick answers in highly complex environments.
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Purpose – This research aims to present and empirically validate a conceptual model for social economy organizations that includes organizational commitment, knowledge-centered culture, and training as critical variables for the success of formal and informal knowledge management practices.
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Purpose – The paper identifies and discusses barriers and facilitators to four processes implied in knowledge management (KM; acquisition, creation, sharing, and transfer). Technological, socio-organizational, and individual barriers and facilitators are considered.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report the results of a matched sample comparison group study of elements of organizational culture that enable knowledge processes to drive superior firm performance.
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Purpose – This paper aims at extending research on narrative knowledge sharing in organizations. Current literature often assumes that narratives can provide orientation and guidance in complex task environments by conveying embedded actionable problem-solving knowledge or practices. In this paper an empirical example of narrative-based knowledge sharing is used as a starting point to [...]
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Purpose – The majority of Knowledge Management theory and practice literature is based on, and relates to, Western and Japanese business environments and related assumptions.
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Purpose – This paper presents a novel way to conceive knowledge strategy (KS). It suggests that a firm could outperform another by establishing a coherent and integrated KS depending on the objectives pursued and the understanding of knowledge management (KM) by managers, the use of KM tools, and organizational aspects to support KS implementation.
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Purpose – Members’ knowledge is the most important resource in NGOs and it is important to stimulate it’s exchange. Knowledge that is needed to act in complex situations is hard to exchange, but Web 2.0 technologies provide a toolbox to develop a knowledge management strategy. The paper aims to specify optimal conditions and necessary [...]
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Purpose – The literature on interfirm networks devotes scant attention to the ways collaborating firms combine and integrate the knowledge they share and to the subsequent learning outcomes. This study aims to investigate how motorsport companies use network ties to share and recombine knowledge and the learning that occurs both at the organizational and [...]
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