Exploring enablers of internal knowledge dissemination for boundary-spanning industrial PhD students

IF 3.7 3区管理学 Q2 MANAGEMENT

Creativity and Innovation Management Pub Date : 2024-03-03 DOI:10.1111/caim.12596

Ehab Abu Sa'a, Anna Yström

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Industrial PhD students, affiliating to industrial firms and academic institutions, hold unique boundary-spanning positions as they engage in knowledge co-creation through university–industry collaboration (UIC). Despite much research on knowledge transfer processes and boundary spanners in inter-organizational contexts, firms who engage in UIC remain uncertain about how to reap the benefits of co-creating knowledge through industrial PhD projects. This paper investigates the enablers of knowledge dissemination for PhD students in industrial firms. Based on a qualitative case study in Sweden, our study identifies enablers and mechanisms related to individual and organizational actions in the internal knowledge dissemination process. Based on the findings, the paper presents a model that distinguishes between surface and deep knowledge dissemination and elaborates on the symbiotic nature of enablers, with middle management mediating between the individual and organizational levels. The paper enhances research on knowledge dissemination in UIC by specifically addressing industrial PhD students' dissemination of co-created knowledge. The findings inform organizations in managing their expectations, making more informed decisions and improving dissemination conditions for boundary-spanning industrial PhD students in UIC.

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探索跨边界工业博士生内部知识传播的促进因素

隶属于工业企业和学术机构的工业博士生在通过产学合作（UIC）参与知识共创时，具有独特的跨越边界的地位。尽管对组织间背景下的知识转移过程和边界跨越进行了大量研究，但参与产学合作的企业仍然不清楚如何通过产业博士项目获得知识共创的收益。本文研究了工业企业中博士生知识传播的促进因素。基于在瑞典开展的一项定性案例研究，我们的研究确定了内部知识传播过程中与个人和组织行动相关的促进因素和机制。根据研究结果，本文提出了一个区分表层知识传播和深层知识传播的模型，并阐述了促进因素的共生性质，即中层管理人员在个人和组织层面之间的中介作用。本文通过具体探讨工业博士生传播共同创造知识的情况，加强了对 UIC 知识传播的研究。研究结果有助于组织管理其期望，做出更明智的决策，并改善 UIC 跨边界工业博士生的传播条件。

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Creativity and Innovation Management MANAGEMENT-

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期刊介绍： Creativity and Innovation Management bridges the gap between the theory and practice of organizing imagination and innovation. The journal''s central consideration is how to challenge and facilitate creative potential, and how then to embed this into results-oriented innovative business development. The creativity of individuals, coupled with structured and well-managed innovation projects, creates a sound base from which organizations may operate effectively within their inter-organizational and societal environment. Today, successful operations must go hand in hand with the ability to anticipate future opportunities. Therefore, a cultural focus and inspiring leadership are as crucial to an organization''s success as efficient structural arrangements and support facilities. This is reflected in the journal''s contents: -Leadership for creativity and innovation; the behavioural side of innovation management. -Organizational structures and processes to support creativity and innovation; interconnecting creative and innovative processes. -Creativity, motivation, work environment/creative climate and organizational behaviour, creative and innovative entrepreneurship. -Deliberate development of creative and innovative skills including the use of a variety of tools such as TRIZ or CPS. -Creative professions and personalities; creative products; the relationship between creativity and humour; arts and amp; humanities side of creativity.