scholarly journals To have or to be? The interplay between knowledge structure and market identity in knowledge-based alliance formation

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 571-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angeloantonio Russo ◽  
Clodia Vurro ◽  
Rajiv Nag
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Structure ◽  
Alliance Formation ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Market Identity

Exploiting the Features of ISO GPS Standards to Enhance a Knowledge-Based Method for Product Redesign and Process Reconfiguration

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilaria Cristofolini ◽  
Stefano Filippi
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Structure ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Product Features ◽  
Main Activity

Previous work developed a knowledge-based method named Design GuideLines Collaborative Framework (DGLs-CF), adopted during product redesign and process reconfiguration and aimed at dealing and matching with particular manufacturing and verification technologies, according to ISO GPS concepts. Aim of present work is improving the role of the ISO GPS within the DGLs-CF, not only to raise coherence in terms of concepts, but to gain some important internal and external improvements for the DGLs-CF. The main activity toward achieving this goal is the formalization of DGLs-CF product features by means of the ISO GPS features. The procedure is proposed and the consequences of its application on the elements of the DGLs-CF are evaluated. A case of study as an example of application is also presented. A significant improvement in the DGLs-CF is realized, both in terms of knowledge structure and organization, and in terms of the possibility of interfacing it with other methodologies, tools, and environments.

Matching Design Tasks to Knowledge-Based Software Tools: When Intuition Does Not Suffice

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Amen ◽  
I. Rask ◽  
S. Sunnersjö
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Knowledge Structure ◽  
Software Tools ◽  
Specific Design ◽  
Design Task ◽  
Solution Strategies ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Operational Life ◽  
Matching Design

Abstract Choosing methods and tools to automate engineering design tasks has farreaching implications. A system that is first established for a limited task may later require being scaled up and maintained for many years of operational life. As the system grows, the company’s reliance on the system increases and the need for a stable platform to start from becomes critical. The system must be tailored to the specific design process and knowledge structure at hand. The purpose of this work is to present a structured methodology to classify design task(s) and to give guidelines for how this definition should be linked to suitable solution strategies and computerised tools.

Explicating the business model from a knowledge-based view: nature, structure, imitability and competitive advantage erosion

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Chen ◽  
Luyao Wang ◽  
Guannan Qu
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Knowledge Structure ◽  
Firm Boundaries ◽  
Ceteris Paribus ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Strategic Value ◽  
Structured Knowledge ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize the business model (BM) from a knowledge-based view (KBV), to interpret its nature and knowledge structure and to investigate the relationship between its imitability and the erosion of firm’s competitive advantage. Design/methodology/approach Based on a systematic literature review, this study builds an integrated framework to explicate the nature and structure of the BM from a KBV. Moreover, on the analysis of two contrasting cases, the argument concerning the relationship between BM imitability and its strategic value is proposed, analyzed and supported. Findings The main finding of this study is that a BM can be viewed as a structured knowledge cluster that contains explicit and implicit parts. Its imitation is a dynamic process of knowledge diffusion across firm boundaries. Ceteris paribus, with a lower proportion of implicit knowledge, a BM is more likely to be imitated and the adopter’s competitive advantage is more likely to be eroded, and vice versa. Practical implications The proposed framework could provide managers with a deeper understanding of the nature and structure of the BM and help potential adopters develop a successful entry strategy by avoiding BMs that seem profitable but are incapable of maintaining competitive advantage. Originality/value As a complement to previous studies, the research conceptualizes the BM as a “structured knowledge cluster” to explicate its nature and knowledge structure from a KBV. The implicit part of the BM is explored, and its importance for the adopter’s competitive advantage is discussed and verified.

Alliance formation issues for knowledge-based enterprises

2001 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Reid ◽  
David Bussiere ◽  
Kathleen Greenaway
Keyword(s):  
Alliance Formation ◽  
Knowledge Based

scholarly journals RESEARCH KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ON PROBLEMS, NEEDS AND STRATEGIES OF SOUTHERN THAILAND

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 323-333
Author(s):  
Nawapon Kewsuwun ◽  
Kanyarat Kwiecien ◽  
Chumchit Sae-Chan
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Knowledge Structure ◽  
The Body ◽  
Mixed Method Research ◽  
Research Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Southern Thailand ◽  
The Government ◽  
Start Ups

Purpose of the study: This study aims to develop a research knowledge structure according to problems, needs, and strategies of a community, to search for relationships, and to scope knowledge regarding problems, needs, and strategies of a community, to gather practical problem-solving guidelines, and to reflect and reconfirm existing body of knowledge of a community. Methodology: This design of this study is content synthesis, knowledge organization as classification approach has been applied to this mixed-method research, the knowledge has been categorized into a tree structure according to the relationships of each concept, and therefore, it shows clear causes and effects also differentiates relationships in scope of related knowledge of the southern development. Main Findings: The results of this study indicate that the knowledge structure of the research for the development of southern Thailand comprises 2 domains, 20 classes, 139 concepts, and 327 sub-concepts. It will let us see the relationships and trends of knowledge based on the research of southern Thailand by the scope of knowledge that reflects gaps in some research points and can be resolved or reused. Applications of this study: The findings confirmed that we can develop it to the ontology for a recommender system or knowledge-based system of research for development based on problems, needs, and strategies of community in southern Thailand. It is a search engine tool for researchers on research for southern Thailand development. Further, this could explain more the relationships of information clearly, similarly; the knowledge structure will help the researcher’s study scope area, reduce research redundancy, reduce costs on research redundancy and reconfirm knowledge to conduct research and innovations. Novelty/Originality of this study: The findings confirmed that it can be applied in terms of the policy area and national strategies, or applied as a part of solutions, for example, the body of research knowledge on tourism and agricultural development which is crucial for the national economy and resource. The government could take the knowledge into account the research or tourism policies, agricultural production as start-ups: Smart Tourism and Smart Agro Technology.

scholarly journals Abduction for Creative Design

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuo Tomiyama ◽  
Hideaki Takeda ◽  
Masaharu Yoshioka ◽  
Yoshiki Shimomura
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Structure ◽  
Second Order ◽  
Abductive Reasoning ◽  
Creative Design ◽  
Knowledge Based

While abduction is considered crucial for design in general, this paper focuses on the role of abduction to integrate knowledge assuming that creative design can come from innovative combination of existing knowledge. Based on Schurz’s classification of abductive reasoning, the paper identifies that abduction for integrating theories can be performed by a special type of abduction called second order existential abduction. The paper then analyzes refrigerator design cases to understand how knowledge is used and shows that abduction is indeed central to design. It also discusses that knowledge structure is a key concept in abduction for integration.

Decisional DNA and the Smart Knowledge Management System

2011 ◽  
pp. 149-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cesar Sanin ◽  
Edward Szczerbicki
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Management System ◽  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Structure ◽  
Knowledge Management System ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Hybrid Knowledge

Some of the most complicated issues about knowledge are its acquisition and its conversion into explicit knowledge. Nevertheless, among all knowledge forms, storing formal decision events in a knowledge-explicit way becomes an important advance. The smart knowledge management system (SKMS) is a hybrid knowledge-based decision support system that takes information and sends it through four macro-processes: diagnosis, prognosis, solution, and knowledge, in order to build the Decisional DNA of an organization. The SKMS implements a model for transforming information into knowledge by using sets of experience knowledge structure. The purpose of this chapter is to show how decisional DNA is constructed through the implementation of the SKMS. Fully developed, the SKMS certainly would improve the quality of decision-making, and could advance the notion of administering knowledge in the current decision making environment.

scholarly journals New Collaboration through Artefact-Mediated Interaction with a Joint Knowledge Base

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. pp180-193
Author(s):  
Marco Bettoni ◽  
Eddie Obeng
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
Knowledge Structure ◽  
Shared Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Social Negotiation ◽  
Individual Knowledge ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Individual

Collaboration is changing and increasingly emerging as what we call “New Collaboration”, a knowledge-based and community-oriented way of working together (especially digital, online collaboration). Unfortunately, organisations use only a small percentage of the potential of New Collaboration. One main reason for this is that they do not understand that New Collaboration is based on knowledge sharing and requires the individual knowledge of the collaborators to be integrated into a shared knowledge structure, a so-called Joint Knowledge Base (JKB). This concept of a Joint Knowledge Base as the tacit knowledge structure which is constructed, shared and maintained during collaboration, emerged during the course of our previous work and became more and more prominent as a key to collaboration. When a group interacts, the JKB functions as an interaction bridge, and this is why it is a key to collaboration. In this paper, we will revise and elaborate in more detail our concept of a JKB and explain its role in artefact-mediated interaction. First, we will explain the main characteristics of New Collaboration and summarise them based on a concise definition. Secondly, we will introduce the concept of a Joint Knowledge Base, explore the role of social negotiation in constructing it, define the JKB as a distributed knowledge structure, discuss the problem of obstacles which hinder its development and suggest how to solve it by means of gaining deeper insight into the complexity of the involved processes (communication, interaction). And next we will further develop this solution by introducing the concept of boundary artefacts and describing their implementation as tools for artefact-mediated interaction by means of a systematic approach. Finally, we will explain this systematic approach and show how boundary artefacts and artefact-mediated interaction work in practice during meetings performed on a commercially available collaboration platform where they contribute to the construction of a JKB.

Is the Personal Always Political?

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 133-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny Osborne ◽  
Yannick Dufresne ◽  
Gregory Eady ◽  
Jennifer Lees-Marshment ◽  
Cliff van der Linden
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Openness To Experience ◽  
Political Sophistication ◽  
Knowledge Based

Abstract. Research demonstrates that the negative relationship between Openness to Experience and conservatism is heightened among the informed. We extend this literature using national survey data (Study 1; N = 13,203) and data from students (Study 2; N = 311). As predicted, education – a correlate of political sophistication – strengthened the negative relationship between Openness and conservatism (Study 1). Study 2 employed a knowledge-based measure of political sophistication to show that the Openness × Political Sophistication interaction was restricted to the Openness aspect of Openness. These studies demonstrate that knowledge helps people align their ideology with their personality, but that the Openness × Political Sophistication interaction is specific to one aspect of Openness – nuances that are overlooked in the literature.

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