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The main focus of this work is to investigate the predictors of knowledge management (KM) behavior among university academics within the prevailing organizational climate. The KM behavior has been operationalized using SECI process (components of knowledge creation theory). A hypothetical research framework has been developed based on TRA, TPB and some related previous works. Survey based quantitative...
The purpose of this paper is to aim to study the relationship between the information and communication technology (ICT) on knowledge management process in Indian milk co-operatives. This study is carried out using a quantitative method to empirically test the research hypotheses. The questions were design based on the literature review, adapted and contextualized to Indian milk co-operatives. Structural...
Tacit knowledge is an asset that kept within individual while explicit knowledge that can be documented directly an organization. Tacit and explicit knowledge is an important factor in the development of knowledge sharing within an organization. The object of observation in this study is Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), in which knowledge sharing is important to help cooperate with other SMEs...
This research realizes the needs for organizations to increase its readiness towards the implementation of knowledge management. This study specifically analyzes factors related to knowledge management tools utilization within the organization as antecedents towards knowledge management implementation readiness. Data were gathered from 57 respondents whom were employees of a leading software development...
Today, with the growth of technology, all types of business are required to expand. This encouraged the business owners to innovate, especially the mid-scale enterprises, in order to compete with large-scale competitors. To overcome various obstacles, the owners of SMEs must be able to innovate to raise competitiveness. The innovation process cannot be separated from the human factor in the organization...
This qualitative research examined the links between business models, business strategy and innovation and investigated the extent to which knowledge and innovation management (KIM) contributes to the processes of value creation, value networks and value capture across six organizations characterized by successful innovation performance and strong KIM practices. The development of KIM as a dynamic...
Driven by the limited amount of research investigating the relationship between knowledge conversion abilities and innovation, a study was conducted to fill the gap. Adopting a survey research methodology involving 328 administrative and diplomatic officers working in Malaysian Federal Ministries, the study found that most dimensions of knowledge conversion have a significant relationship with innovations...
This research aims to examine the effect of knowledge management on the excellence of the Research Center. The study was applied to the case of Scientific Research Centers in Algeria; such as; (CDER, CERISTI, CDTIA, CSC, CRAPC, CRSTIDLA, CREAD, CRASC, CRSTIRA and CRBt). The data of the study were collected through interviews and questionnaire during 2011–2013, and they were analyzed using SPSS 18...
This study investigated the constructs of Leader-ship Social Power (LSP) used by organizational leaders to influence Knowledge Management (KM) workers to bring about a successful KM implementation. Researchers have shown organizations wishing to secure, improve, or maintain KM success, should ensure their leaders: 1) are committed to KM, 2) en-courage quality knowledge, and 3) promote knowledge use...
Composed of knowledge acquisition, transfer, application and innovation, customer knowledge management's influences on customer knowledge management performance has been the subject of numerous studies. But relative empirical results are lacking in regard to how corporate optimization efforts of organizational environment will improve its customer knowledge management performance. To further investigate...
This study aims at investigating the effect of organizational, trust, social, information technology, external factors and knower's attitude on knowledge sharing in a South African financial institution. The results shows that organizational, information technology, social, trust factors, and knower's attitude have a significance impact in knowledge sharing in an organization. The study implies that...
Knowledge creation has emerged as a critical area in information systems research in the past decade [1]. One of the mechanisms through which knowledge creation enhances firm performance has been theorized as organizational agility. This paper empirically examines the role of organization agility as a mediator between knowledge creation processes and financial firm performance. Our survey study of...
Knowledge has become the most important source of competition in the knowledge era. Organizations establish knowledge teams with knowledge workers who have different specialties to accomplish specific tasks. Knowledge integration combines individual knowledge to achieve synergy and is important to knowledge teams. This study adopts a transactive memory perspective to understand if knowledge integration...
In recent years, knowledge management has become an important issue for many organizations to boost their intellectual capital and business performance. Rather than the emphasis of system functions, a social cognitive model is proposed to examine the associations among members' cognition, interpersonal relationships, and their knowledge contribution behavior. The research results demonstrate that...
Social interaction has been viewed as an important trigger for knowledge sharing. Previous studies have shown difference in both direction and magnitude of relationships between the determinants and knowledge sharing outcomes. By combing the social capital theory, the theory of reasoned action (TRA), and the technology acceptance model (TAM), the present study proposes an integrated model of knowledge...
With the coming of knowledge-based economy, the work-family relationship of knowledge workers has received increasing concerns. This paper studies knowledge workers in Changzhou and proposes hypotheses on knowledge workers' work-family enrichment, job burnout, and mental health. Based on questionnaire and data analysis, our models are empirically supported. Our conclusions are work-family enrichment...
Knowledge process is the core process in new product development, and is also an organizational learning process which is affected by learning environment. In this paper, an empirical research was conducted to explore the mechanism and paths of the interaction among learning environment, knowledge process and new product development performance. The findings indicate that the learning environment...
This study aims to study the relation between knowledge management and knowledge management performance, in Taiwan semiconductor industry, as well as organizational citizenship behavior being the moderator in the relation. Questionnaires were distributed to R&D personnel of public-listed companies in Taiwan semiconductor industry, and total 470 effective samples were retrieved. For data analysis,...
This paper examines factors that influence knowledge sharing and the role of knowledge sharing in Total Quality Management (TQM). Knowledge is recognized as a key element in production processes that enhances the capacity of companies to be more responsive to customers' requirements. Prior works on knowledge sharing have focused on the service industry. This paper is one of the rare attempts to highlight...
This paper designs and makes a questionnaire based on a deep interview, and analyzes those data by SPSS11.5, then constructs recognition model of the network learning by EFA, on basis of these, it tests the validity of recognition factors and the reliability of recognition model by CFA empirical study and Cronbach'a coefficient. Results show that knowledge acquisition, knowledge absorption and knowledge...
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