Mitigating the risk of failure in lean banking implementation: the role of knowledge codification

Aims and background The role of radiotherapy after prostatectomy is controversial. This paper tries to give some guidelines for everyday practice through an analysis of literature data. Methods The potential role of radiotherapy in the adjuvant and salvage setting is discussed. We also report and interpret available literature data for both settings. Results As regards an increase in or detectable prostate-specific antigen (PSA) after radical prostatectomy, about 40–50% of patients are rendered bNED with local salvage radiotherapy, but only 10–50% are long-term (5 years) biochemically controlled. A timely salvage treatment is crucial to optimize control probability. As regards adjuvant radiotherapy for undetectable postoperative PSA in patients at high risk of failure as judged on pathology, results are more encouraging. Recent data report bNED rates ≥70% at 5 years. Conclusions Although results are far from satisfactory, salvage radiotherapy should be considered for every patient with an increased or detectable PSA after surgery. Adjuvant radiotherapy seems preferable to salvage radiotherapy for patients at high (>30%) risk of failure.

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Managing the Standardization Knowledge Codification Paradox

Shaping the Future Through Standardization - Advances in Standardization Research ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-2181-6.ch007 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 168-197

Author(s):

Hiam Serhan ◽

Doudja Saïdi-Kabeche

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Business Models ◽

Iso 9001 ◽

Activity Systems ◽

Content Structure ◽

Managerial Skills ◽

Knowledge Codification ◽

Internal Knowledge

In a connected society and organizations working with digitized business models, standards will have more important roles than ever in shaping activity systems content, structure, and governance. While the standardization conformity/innovation duality has received great attention in literature, little research has been done on the role of managers in managing the tensions of knowledge codification required during ISO 9001 standard implementation. By utilizing Danone's Networking Attitude experience as a case study, the authors address this gap by exploring how managerial skills and practices were used to overcome the cognitive and emotional tensions related to internal knowledge codification, transfer, and use. The main contribution is to elucidate the role of managers in resolving these paradoxes and creating innovation capabilities. Further, they demonstrate the mutually beneficial relationship between knowledge codification and innovation if knowledge management is approached more as an evolving pragmatic knowing than a technical means that may create rigidity and resistance.

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Exploring the role of transformational leadership in human capital effectiveness

World Journal of Entrepreneurship Management and Sustainable Development ◽

10.1108/wjemsd-10-2017-0075 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 14 (2) ◽

pp. 191-204 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Muhammad Shahid Khan ◽

Ilham Sentosa ◽

Faryal Salman

Keyword(s):

Human Capital ◽

Transformational Leadership ◽

Knowledge Management ◽

Competitive Advantage ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Healthcare Industry ◽

Content Type ◽

Knowledge Codification

Purpose Malaysia has set year 2020 as a targeted year to become the most developed nation and to transform the economy into knowledge based. Issue is to become developed nation, but without human capital development (HCD) process, the achievement of this vision would be difficult. Numerous studies articulated the direct impact of human capital on the country economic growth. Human capital is a significant factor to get competitive advantage, which is the need of the day for all countries as well as for organizations to survive in today’s tough competitive environment. Major objective of this research was to find the role of transformational leadership (TL) in human capital effectiveness with the effect of knowledge management (KM) strategies. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach A mixed research method is deployed in this study. Data are collected with the help of self-administrated questionnaire and a semi-structured interview. The structural equation modeling technique is used in the data; data are analyzed with the help of AMOS and Nvivo software. Findings The results revealed that transformation has a positive effect on KM strategies. Further, this study also identified that knowledge codification strategy and personalization strategy have a positive impact on human capital effectiveness. Research limitations/implications The results revealed that KM strategies play a vital role in human capital effectiveness. Therefore, the Malaysian healthcare industry should introduce KM strategies in order to enhance employees’ knowledge skills and ability. This study is only conducted in Malaysia; the future researcher can use a different method to test the current research model. Practical implications Knowledge codification and knowledge personalization strategy can contribute to the HCD process. This study can be generalized in the Malaysian healthcare industry. This kind of effort will add value into human capital. Hence, organization can get a competitive advantage with the help of human capital. TL style is the most appropriate style in the current era; this leadership has the ability to transform the system, which is the need of the day. Due to rapid changes in technology, a leader who believes in change can meet the challenges of twenty-first century. Originality/value KM strategies and their use have been a research issue for some time. Companies have also adopted knowledge management strategies tools to support and stimulate knowledge sharing in their organizations and to help employees to find the expertise they are looking for. But no research has been performed on the importance of KM strategies. This paper describes a unique and new framework that the authors devised to help companies to do just that.

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The significance of the personality of knowledge: its contribution in creating and utilizing the system of knowledge in organization

Agricultural Economics (Zemědělská ekonomika) ◽

10.17221/5026-agricecon ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 52 (No. 6) ◽

pp. 289-300

Author(s):

M. Polišenský

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Information Technologies ◽

Social Process ◽

Team Leaders ◽

Power Politics ◽

New Approach ◽

Knowledge Codification ◽

Social Actions ◽

The Impact

How does an organization utilize knowledge for the reproduction of its culture in innovations, it was a key-point of the question for an approach based on the methodology of social process in the recent past. Then the formation of knowledge was considered a process of power politics with the consequences for knowledge management. In the framework of those projects, attempts were made in organizations to extract the knowledge from experts and specialized professionals that it might be codified and saved in extensive databases; only then the remainder of employees ought to have possibility to consult them and add the results of their own ideas to these databases. Poor success of such attempts only illustrates the methodological failure of utilizing information technologies for knowledge formation, its storage and transfer. Moreover, when a new fact was soon discovered even in the framework of the new approach, that there was an abyss-like difference between information (that information technologies operate with) and the knowledge, then the significance of personality increased again. The research that was done with the “champions of organizational learning” in the framework of knowledge management emphasized their import in catching the best experience, knowledge codification and its distribution in the organizations. Among other qualities, the knowledge is strongly personalized: it means it is connected with personal experience, attitudes, and evaluations. On the other hand, an advantage of new methodology was that the possible social actions, connected with the knowledge management, search for a strategy, and implementation were studied. These very changes in methodology have been a valuable contribution even for the research into the role of personality within this social process, however. They induce circumstances and means for studying the infrastructure of relationships that make possible the impact of individual authority in organization in general. In this paper, we also pay attention to this social process in teams as compared to collectives and how team-leaders emerge within them.

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Knowledge Codification, Exploitation, and Innovation: The Moderating Influence of Organizational Controls in Chinese Firms

Management and Organization Review ◽

10.1111/j.1740-8784.2010.00179.x ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 219-241 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Yuan Li ◽

Soo-Hoon Lee ◽

Xiyao Li ◽

Yi Liu

Keyword(s):

Innovation Process ◽

Theoretical Development ◽

Endogenous Innovation ◽

Knowledge Exploitation ◽

Organizational Controls ◽

Knowledge Codification ◽

Development Professionals ◽

Different Types ◽

Clan Control

This study examines how firms use organizational controls in the knowledge exploitation process to enhance endogenous innovation. Some past studies have shown that controls restrict the flexibility needed in innovation, whereas others have shown that controls enhanced innovation by directing the efforts of research and development professionals. Thus, we extend the theoretical development of organizational control theory to examine how different types of organizational controls (clan, behaviour, and output controls) play different roles at different points in the innovation process. First, we propose that codifying knowledge enhances its level of exploitation, with clan control serving as a moderator. Next, we propose that knowledge exploitation enhances endogenous innovation with behaviour and output controls serving as moderators. Our results from a sample of 607 Chinese manufacturing firms show that clan control moderated the knowledge codification–exploitation relationship positively. Behaviour control moderated the knowledge exploitation–innovation relationship positively, but output control had an inverse U-shaped moderating influence in this relationship. The results indicate that examining different types of organizational controls at different points in the knowledge management process provides a more comprehensive understanding for the role of controls in innovation.

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Learning from complex and heterogeneous experiences: the role of knowledge codification

Journal of Knowledge Management ◽

10.1108/jkm-02-2015-0048 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 19 (5) ◽

pp. 968-986 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Loubna Echajari ◽

Catherine Thomas

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Organizational Learning ◽

Conceptual Analysis ◽

Theory And Practice ◽

Content Type ◽

Research Areas ◽

Knowledge Codification ◽

Critical Realist ◽

Different Types

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study organizational learning from complex and heterogeneous experiences. According to March (2010), this kind of high intellect learning is difficult to accomplish because it requires deliberate investments in knowledge transfer and creation. Zollo and Winter (2002) emphasized how knowledge codification can facilitate this process, as long as it is “well-performed”. However, knowledge management scholars have yet to explore what is meant by well-performed codification and how to achieve it. Design/methodology/approach – This paper addresses this gap and provides a conceptual analysis based on two related but previously disconnected research areas: organizational learning and knowledge management. Findings – This paper contributes to the literature in three ways. First, a new understanding of different types of experiences and their effects on learning is proposed. Then the codification process using a critical realist paradigm to overcome the epistemological boundaries of knowledge versus knowing is discussed; in doing so, it is shown that codification can take different forms to be “well-performed”. Finally, appropriate codification strategies based on experience type are identified. Originality/value – The abstraction-oriented codification outlined in this paper runs counter to the logic of concrete codification that dominates both theory and practice. Thus, going beyond the traditional debate on the degree of codification (i.e. should knowledge be fully codified or just partly codified), this paper introduced a new debate about the appropriate degree of abstraction.

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The role of knowledge codification in the emergence of consensus under uncertainty: empirical analysis and policy implications

Research Policy ◽

10.1016/s0048-7333(01)00166-4 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 30 (9) ◽

pp. 1537-1551 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Francis Munier ◽

Patrick Rondé

Keyword(s):

Empirical Analysis ◽

Policy Implications ◽

Knowledge Codification

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The Role of Patent Law in Knowledge Codification

10.31235/osf.io/vuh9d ◽

2016 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Dan Burk

Keyword(s):

Intellectual Property ◽

Tacit Knowledge ◽

Knowledge Production ◽

Patent Law ◽

Codified Knowledge ◽

Know How ◽

Knowledge Codification ◽

Prior Art ◽

Property Regimes

Recent studies of knowledge production have increasingly recognized the role of codified knowledge in the operation of social organizations. But the literature on knowledge production has to date recognized only in passing the role of intellectual property in this process. This paper applies the insights of knowledge production to the features of intellectual property regimes, both to flesh out the analysis of tacit knowledge codification, and to illuminate the role of intellectual property in the firm. Patents, for example, constitute an explicitly codified form of technical knowledge, providing a stable common code for technical know-how, partially ameliorating the risks associated with loss of tacit knowledge. Codification through the patent system also provides important stability to attendant tacit knowledge. Patent doctrines regarding prior art, interference practice, and infringement all address the balance of tacit and codified knowledge. By functioning as a codification mechanism, patents may facilitate employee movement and entrepreneurial business spin-offs. Thus, aside from the usual justifications for patents in terms of incentive or disclosure, patenting may help to secure knowledge against loss or dissipation.

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Handling Rejection as Failure: Aspiring Writers Getting the Rejection Slip

Valuation Studies ◽

10.3384/vs.2001-5992.1642153 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 153-176 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Henrik Fürst

Keyword(s):

Conceptual Framework ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Theoretical Understanding ◽

Risk Of Failure ◽

Cooling Out ◽

Fiction Writers ◽

Definition Of ◽

First Time ◽

Fiction Writer

Included in the definition of being an aspiring person is the risk of failure. Aspiring fiction writers are no exception. This article shows that the role of aspiring fiction writer involves managing three issues: the hope of being published, rejection by a publisher, and the perception of the rejection as a failure. Drawing on 47 interviews with fiction writers who have attempted to become first-time writers, the analysis shows that aspiring writers’ responses to rejection are related to accepting and dismissing responsibility for having failed and admitting or dismissing the rejection as a perceived failure. Based on these findings, the article presents procedures associated with four main approaches to dealing with failure: conceding, excusing, justifying, and refusing. This conceptual framework for understanding failure contributes to a theoretical understanding of evaluation and valuation processes and their consequences and to empirical studies of rejection as career failure; it also systematizes and extends Goffmans work on cooling out strategies.

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