Knowledge and Process Management最新文献

{"title":"How much is enough? The role of R&D investment in the innovation process","authors":"Desmond Ng,&nbsp;Leonardo Sánchez-Aragón","doi":"10.1002/kpm.1786","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/kpm.1786","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While both production function (PF) and Absorptive Capacity (AC) explanations have played an important role in explaining the relationship between a firm's Research and Development (R&amp;D) and its innovation, each has developed independently of the contributions of the other. The purpose of this study is to theoretically and empirically develop a concept of AC that incorporates the role of diminishing returns and external spillovers (i.e., strategic alliances) into a biotechnology firm's R&amp;D-innovation process. In using count estimations, this study finds that a firm's R&amp;D-innovation process is subject to a nonlinear -U-shaped- learning process and that this process is moderated by its strategic partnerships. The contribution of this study is that it challenges the linearity assumptions and findings of AC research and that it offers a greater openness to PF explanations of the R&amp;D-innovation process.</p>","PeriodicalId":46428,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge and Process Management","volume":"31 4","pages":"309-324"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/kpm.1786","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142574169","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An empirical examination on firm innovativeness and supply chain resilience: The role of information sharing from a dynamic capabilities view","authors":"John M. Dickens,&nbsp;Hasan Uvet,&nbsp;Jason R. Anderson,&nbsp;Sergey Y. Ponomarov,&nbsp;David R. Nowicki","doi":"10.1002/kpm.1785","DOIUrl":"10.1002/kpm.1785","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Supply chain disruptions present an existential threat to firms in today's highly competitive global economy. To appropriately thwart and mitigate this threat, firms must innovate capabilities that enhance and properly balance investments in their supply chain resilience posture. This study investigates the importance of information sharing and its interactive influence on firm innovativeness and resilience. This study uses a survey and partial least squares multigroup analysis to empirically test a theoretical model grounded in dynamic capabilities theory. Contributions from this study highlight that regardless of firm size, firm innovativeness is a significant antecedent to supply chain resilience. Key findings show that small firms use information sharing, whereas large firms do not, with their suppliers to accelerate innovation efforts in developing supply chain resilience capabilities. This study extends knowledge in the field by providing insights enabling large firms to improve their information sharing efforts to enhance innovation activities.</p>","PeriodicalId":46428,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge and Process Management","volume":"31 4","pages":"295-308"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141273993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Knowledge management implementation: A systematic literature review","authors":"Jader Luiz Henz,&nbsp;Mírian Oliveira","doi":"10.1002/kpm.1780","DOIUrl":"10.1002/kpm.1780","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For many organizations, implementing knowledge management (KM) is a challenge. With the aim of deriving insights for guiding future research in KM implementation, this systematic literature review, conducted on October 28, 2023, using the Scopus and Web of Science databases, examined 174 articles from 108 journals. The search, employing the terms ((framework or “maturity model” or implementation) and “knowledge management”), disregarded time constraints. The information extracted included journal details, authors, authors' countries, number of authors, research method, objectives, dimensions of frameworks or maturity models, and suggestions for future research. Descriptive statistics and content analysis were applied to the collected data, revealing that the 174 articles involved 432 authors and were distributed across 108 journals. Key findings indicate: (a) a need for more research into strategies, practices, and technology for aiding KM implementation and evaluation; and (b) the potential for testing models and frameworks in diverse contexts (country, sector, and size). In response to the analysis, a KM implementation roadmap was formulated, encompassing five stages: diagnosis, design, implementation, implementation improvement, and evaluation. This study enhances academic understanding by highlighting pertinent topics in KM implementation and identifying avenues for further investigation.</p>","PeriodicalId":46428,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge and Process Management","volume":"31 4","pages":"284-294"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140984339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The impact of ethical leadership on KM practices and performance","authors":"Susanne Durst,&nbsp;Samuel Foli,&nbsp;Serdal Temel","doi":"10.1002/kpm.1779","DOIUrl":"10.1002/kpm.1779","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent advancements in leadership research emphasise the influential role of ethical leadership in shaping positive employee behaviour. However, there remains unclear the precise impact of ethical leadership on organisational performance and its interaction with knowledge creation and knowledge networks. Drawing on both the knowledge-based view and the ethical leadership literature, this study asserts a positive influence of ethical leadership on both organisational performance and knowledge creation. Furthermore, we propose that knowledge creation positively impacts knowledge networks, which, in turn, exert a positive influence on organisational performance. To validate these propositions, we employ structural equation modelling on a dataset comprising 205 Turkish firms. Our study contributes to the (ethical) leadership literature as one of the initial attempts to examine the relationship between ethical leadership and organisational performance while considering the roles of knowledge creation and knowledge networks.</p>","PeriodicalId":46428,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge and Process Management","volume":"31 4","pages":"275-283"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/kpm.1779","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140996258","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Analyzing the effects of knowledge management on organizational performance through knowledge utilization and sustainability","authors":"Faezeh Mohaghegh,&nbsp;Halil Zaim,&nbsp;Vladimir Dzenopoljac,&nbsp;Aleksandra Dzenopoljac,&nbsp;Nick Bontis","doi":"10.1002/kpm.1777","DOIUrl":"10.1002/kpm.1777","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In today's turbulent business environment, gaining sustainable competitive advantage requires organizations to manage knowledge capabilities effectively and use resources efficiently. The primary objective of this study is to explore the relationship among knowledge management (KM) processes, including knowledge generation, knowledge codification, and knowledge sharing, with knowledge utilization, sustainability, and organizational performance. The research mainly examines both the direct effect of KM on organizational performance and its indirect effect through sustainability and knowledge utilization. A theoretical framework is introduced and tested using data gathered from companies within the services sector in Kuwait. The results indicate that knowledge utilization and sustainability fully mediate the relationship between KM and organizational performance. Both knowledge utilization and sustainability exert direct and positive effects on organizational performance while being directly influenced by KM. Accordingly, it is suggested that the firms enhance their performance by effectively managing knowledge capabilities appropriately, utilizing knowledge, and investing in sustainability and organizational resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":46428,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge and Process Management","volume":"31 3","pages":"261-272"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/kpm.1777","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140679112","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Knowledge management in the care for people with intellectual disabilities during the COVID-19 pandemic","authors":"M. E. Nägele,&nbsp;K. E. Bevelander,&nbsp;H. L. G. R. Nies,&nbsp;P. J. C. M. Embregts,&nbsp;N. Biervliet,&nbsp;G. L. Leusink,&nbsp;J. Naaldenberg","doi":"10.1002/kpm.1776","DOIUrl":"10.1002/kpm.1776","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The study aimed to gain insight into knowledge management in the intellectual disabilities (ID) care sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. We explored and described how knowledge producers, intermediaries, and knowledge users experienced knowledge management during this crisis situation, the responses to the specific knowledge needs in the ID-care sector, and changes in roles and collaboration during this period. Twenty-five individual in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with knowledge producers, intermediaries, and knowledge users in the Dutch ID-care sector. An inductive thematic analysis was conducted. Three key themes were identified: (1) knowledge needs during the COVID-19 pandemic, (2) experiences with knowledge management, and (3) roles and collaboration in knowledge management. There was an urgent need for specific ID-related knowledge and how to translate available evidence for the general population into ID-care settings. In knowledge management, the focus was on knowledge production and exchange, with validation and application receiving less attention. Within stakeholder groups, collaboration and knowledge exchange were intensified by existing or new knowledge infrastructures. Between stakeholder groups, knowledge producers and users created short lines to exchange needs and produce knowledge. This paper provides unique insights into knowledge management in the Dutch ID-care sector during the COVID-19 pandemic. Implications are discussed to improve future knowledge management processes. Support with knowledge validation and local knowledge infrastructures (complementary to centralized national knowledge infrastructures) help to assess the reliability and usefulness of knowledge and improve its use in practice during future pandemic-related crisis situations.</p>","PeriodicalId":46428,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge and Process Management","volume":"31 3","pages":"242-260"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/kpm.1776","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140698581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Human resource practices, organizational commitment, and knowledge-sharing intention: An empirical evidence from a cultural perspective","authors":"Ume Rubaca,&nbsp;Malik Mamoon Munir,&nbsp;Malik Haroon Munir,&nbsp;Bakhtawar Munir","doi":"10.1002/kpm.1778","DOIUrl":"10.1002/kpm.1778","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The study investigated the impact of high-involvement work systems (HIWS) on knowledge-sharing intention (KSI) through the mediation of organizational commitment (OC) and the moderation of workplace allocentrism, particularly in the manufacturing units of small and medium enterprises operating in Pakistan. Data collection involved 328 workers, utilizing self-administered structured questionnaires translated into Urdu to ensure understanding and inclusivity. SmartPLS software was used to analyze data using the structural equation modeling technique for the examination of complex relationships between multiple variables simultaneously. The findings suggest that the association between HIWS and KSI strengthens among the individuals high in workplace allocentrism and that cultural factors play a significant role in shaping how employees respond to HIWS and engage in knowledge-sharing behaviors. The study highlights the importance of considering cultural factors in organizational practices and strategies, thus providing novel insights for entrepreneurs to enhance the performance, innovation, and competitiveness of their enterprises through a knowledge-sharing culture. Overall, study offers valuable contributions to both academia and practice by shedding light on the intricate relationships between HIWS, KSI, OC, and workplace allocentrism.</p>","PeriodicalId":46428,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge and Process Management","volume":"31 3","pages":"230-241"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140712123","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A framework on interplay of knowledge types and dimensions in pandemics – Example of COVID-19","authors":"Nakul Parameswar,&nbsp;Krishna Venkitachalam","doi":"10.1002/kpm.1775","DOIUrl":"10.1002/kpm.1775","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent literature has documented numerous knowledge management (KM) policy frameworks and models utilised for managing pandemics such as COVID-19. Perhaps the major focus of existing scholarly work is on the role and relevance of healthcare KM in the COVID-19 crisis compared to the understanding of healthcare knowledge dimensions and knowledge types in pandemic management and control. Considering the complexities of COVID-19, we attempt to address a literature gap in the management knowledge of pandemics as the study problem in this paper. The paper proposes a framework to analyse the interplay between the dimensions and knowledge types and its application benefits using the example of COVID-19 management in the state of Kerala. Considering the disparities in how the pandemic was managed globally, we use the Kerala case to illuminate the different interactions between the three types and four dimensions of knowledge for pandemic management. Future studies may explore the extension and testing of the proposed interplay framework in other contexts.</p>","PeriodicalId":46428,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge and Process Management","volume":"31 3","pages":"221-229"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140375078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enabling knowledge sharing in a production context in China","authors":"Jorge Muniz Jr,&nbsp;Vagner Batista Ribeiro,&nbsp;Jacky Fok Loi Hong,&nbsp;Daniel Wintersberger,&nbsp;Valerio Antonio Pamplona Salomon","doi":"10.1002/kpm.1774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/kpm.1774","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There is limited research on the cultural influence on knowledge sharing in production contexts. In view of the gap in literature, this study draws on a multi-criteria decision-making approach, the analytic hierarchy process (AHP), to identify and rank different enabling factors of knowledge sharing in the workplace of a Chinese electronics plant on the basis of the relative importance ascribed to them by operators, leaders, and managers. The fieldwork research was conducted in a Chinese electronic plant, considering the judgment of 121 operators (blue-collar workers), 56 production leaders, and 9 managers selected by convenience. The findings reinforce the understanding about the importance of integrating factors related to people, process, and knowledge to enable knowledge management in different cultural contexts, which may support managers' needs for lessons learned from other organizations in the areas of knowledge management, organizational learning, and process management.</p>","PeriodicalId":46428,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge and Process Management","volume":"31 3","pages":"207-220"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141967152","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Knowledge as a capability to make decisions: Experiences with a virtual support context","authors":"Hannu Kivijärvi","doi":"10.1002/kpm.1773","DOIUrl":"10.1002/kpm.1773","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Human decision making is an act or process that is based on explicit or tacit knowledge, and can be supported in a limitless number of ways. Knowledge is a broad and delicate concept, rich in nuance, a concept that has been interpreted, understood, and categorized in different ways. Even if it may be true that “all knowing is personal knowing,” all knowledge is not inevitably personal knowledge. Organizations have a common capability to act (i.e., knowledge capacity or intellectual capital), the lack of which would inevitably prevent organizational action and would lead to unpredictability, disorder and chaos. Hence, the conversion of personal knowledge to organizational usage has become an important and justified stream of research. However, there are serious conceptual barriers to deriving organizational knowledge directly from personal knowledge. Although the term “conversion” is partly misleading, it is used here in the absence of a better alternative to describe a type of knowledge generation process in which one kind of knowledge is used to create another kind of knowledge. In this paper, we define knowledge as the individual or organizational capability to make decisions. We show that the ability to make decisions is determined not only by the personal dimension but also by the social and material dimensions; knowledge is a triangular model that combines these three worlds. In order to explore and manage the resource of knowledge more effectively in organizational contexts, the key question involves how to support and stimulate the deployment of personal knowledge for common usage in organizational decision making. The contributions of this paper are firstly the provision of a theoretical basis for a virtual support context, and secondly a description of an experience with a concrete virtual context that supports and stimulates the conversion of personal knowledge into strategic, organizational decisions. The support system developed here provides a set of virtual conditions that can be used to exercise organizational skills and capabilities for effective decision making.</p>","PeriodicalId":46428,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge and Process Management","volume":"31 3","pages":"185-206"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2024-02-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/kpm.1773","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140408908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}