Unleashing knowledge arbitrage potential: empowering startups through knowledge management

IF 6.6 2区管理学 Q1 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE

Journal of Knowledge Management Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI:10.1108/jkm-06-2023-0503

Rabiya Nawaz, Maryam Hina, Veenu Sharma, Shalini Srivastava, Massimiliano Farina Briamonte

{"title":"Unleashing knowledge arbitrage potential: empowering startups through knowledge management","authors":"Rabiya Nawaz, Maryam Hina, Veenu Sharma, Shalini Srivastava, Massimiliano Farina Briamonte","doi":"10.1108/jkm-06-2023-0503","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<h3>Purpose</h3>\n<p>Organizations increasingly use knowledge arbitrage to stimulate innovation and achieve competitive advantage. However, in knowledge management its use in startups is yet unexplored. This study aims to examine the utilization of knowledge arbitrage by startups, specifically during COVID-19.</p>\n<h3>Design/methodology/approach</h3>\n<p>This study employed an open-ended essay methodology to explore the drivers and barriers that startups face in utilizing knowledge arbitrage. We collected data from 40 participants to understand the role of knowledge arbitrage in startups’ knowledge management practices.</p>\n<h3>Findings</h3>\n<p>This study’s findings highlight the significance of knowledge arbitrage for startups. The benefits identified include organizational benefits such as building networks, innovating new products and achieving competitive advantage and financial benefits such as cost reduction and sales growth. The study also identifies several technological and organizational drivers and barriers that startups confront during knowledge arbitrage.</p>\n<h3>Originality/value</h3>\n<p>This study contributes to the existing literature on knowledge management by extending our understanding of knowledge arbitrage’s role in startups. Additionally, it sheds light on the importance of knowledge arbitrage for startups and the challenges they face, particularly in a disrupted environment reared by COVID-19. The study provides insights for the scholars and practitioners interested in effective knowledge management in startups.</p>","PeriodicalId":48368,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Knowledge Management","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":6.6000,"publicationDate":"2024-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Knowledge Management","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1108/jkm-06-2023-0503","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Purpose

Organizations increasingly use knowledge arbitrage to stimulate innovation and achieve competitive advantage. However, in knowledge management its use in startups is yet unexplored. This study aims to examine the utilization of knowledge arbitrage by startups, specifically during COVID-19.

Design/methodology/approach

This study employed an open-ended essay methodology to explore the drivers and barriers that startups face in utilizing knowledge arbitrage. We collected data from 40 participants to understand the role of knowledge arbitrage in startups’ knowledge management practices.

Findings

This study’s findings highlight the significance of knowledge arbitrage for startups. The benefits identified include organizational benefits such as building networks, innovating new products and achieving competitive advantage and financial benefits such as cost reduction and sales growth. The study also identifies several technological and organizational drivers and barriers that startups confront during knowledge arbitrage.

Originality/value

This study contributes to the existing literature on knowledge management by extending our understanding of knowledge arbitrage’s role in startups. Additionally, it sheds light on the importance of knowledge arbitrage for startups and the challenges they face, particularly in a disrupted environment reared by COVID-19. The study provides insights for the scholars and practitioners interested in effective knowledge management in startups.

查看原文本刊更多论文

释放知识套利潜力：通过知识管理增强初创企业的能力

目的各组织越来越多地利用知识套利来激励创新和实现竞争优势。然而，在知识管理方面，初创企业对知识套利的使用尚未得到探索。本研究旨在探讨初创企业利用知识套利的情况，尤其是在 COVID-19 期间。我们收集了 40 位参与者的数据，以了解知识套利在初创企业知识管理实践中的作用。研究结果本研究的结果突出了知识套利对初创企业的重要意义。研究发现的益处包括建立网络、创新新产品和实现竞争优势等组织益处，以及降低成本和销售增长等财务益处。本研究还确定了初创企业在知识套利过程中面临的若干技术和组织驱动因素及障碍。此外，它还揭示了知识套利对初创企业的重要性以及它们所面临的挑战，尤其是在 COVID-19 所带来的混乱环境中。这项研究为对初创企业有效知识管理感兴趣的学者和从业人员提供了启示。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Journal of Knowledge Management Multiple-

CiteScore

13.70

自引率

15.70%

发文量

期刊介绍： Knowledge Management covers all the key issues in its field including: ■Developing an appropriate culture and communication strategy ■Integrating learning and knowledge infrastructure ■Knowledge management and the learning organization ■Information organization and retrieval technologies for improving the quality of knowledge ■Linking knowledge management to performance initiatives ■Retaining knowledge - human and intellectual capital ■Using information technology to develop knowledge management ■Knowledge management and innovation ■Measuring the value of knowledge already within an organization ■What lies beyond knowledge management?