Knowledge transfer and entrepreneurial orientation: the mediating effect of the transactive memory system

IF 3.6 4区管理学 Q2 MANAGEMENT

Total Quality Management & Business Excellence Pub Date : 2023-04-26 DOI:10.1080/14783363.2023.2205016

S. Chión, Vincent Charles, Luz Elvira Vásquez Luna

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The constant dynamism of the market forces companies to prepare and acquire knowledge and manage it properly, which in turn will allow them to achieve higher levels of modernity, stability, and solvency, thus improving their chances of survival. In this research paper, we aim to investigate the relationship between Knowledge Transfer and Entrepreneurial Orientation in light of the mediating role played by the Transactive Memory System. The Transactive Memory System is a variable that has been very little studied and understood, but which requires greater attention because it constitutes a common knowledge platform that is encoded, stored, retrieved, and exchanged among the members of the organisation to obtain specialised knowledge in the performance of tasks. To this aim, we use structural equation modelling and further analyse the mediation effect with alternative tests in a sample of 206 manufacturing MSMEs in Ecuador. Among others, the results indicate that the Transactive Memory System exerts a total mediation role between Knowledge Transfer and Entrepreneurial Orientation. Theoretical contributions and practical implications are discussed.

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知识转移与创业导向:交互记忆系统的中介作用

市场的持续活力迫使公司准备和获取知识，并对其进行适当的管理，这反过来又将使他们实现更高水平的现代性、稳定性和偿付能力，从而提高他们的生存机会。本研究旨在从交互记忆系统的中介作用出发，探讨知识转移与创业取向之间的关系。交互记忆系统是一个很少被研究和理解的变量，但它需要更多的关注，因为它构成了一个共同的知识平台，在组织成员之间进行编码、存储、检索和交换，以获得执行任务的专业知识。为此，我们使用结构方程模型，并在厄瓜多尔206家制造业中小微企业的样本中进一步分析了替代测试的中介效应。其中，交互记忆系统在知识转移与创业取向之间发挥了完全中介作用。讨论了理论贡献和实际意义。

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Total Quality Management & Business Excellence MANAGEMENT-

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期刊介绍： Total Quality Management & Business Excellence is an international journal which sets out to stimulate thought and research in all aspects of total quality management and to provide a natural forum for discussion and dissemination of research results. The journal is designed to encourage interest in all matters relating to total quality management and is intended to appeal to both the academic and professional community working in this area. Total Quality Management & Business Excellence is the culture of an organization committed to customer satisfaction through continuous improvement. This culture varies both from one country to another and between different industries, but has certain essential principles which can be implemented to secure greater market share, increased profits and reduced costs. The journal provides up-to-date research, consultancy work and case studies right across the whole field including quality culture, quality strategy, quality systems, tools and techniques of total quality management and the implementation in both the manufacturing and service sectors. No topics relating to total quality management are excluded from consideration in order to develop business excellence.