scholarly journals Trust and its Impersonal Nature

2011 ◽  
pp. 1683-1690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miia Kosonen ◽  
Kirsimarja Blomqvist ◽  
Riikka Ellonen
Keyword(s):  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Network Economy ◽  
Knowledge Based

In the knowledge-based network economy, trust is becoming an increasingly important issue. Both economists (Arrow, 1974) and sociologists (Luhmann, 1979) have pointed at the role of trust as a lubricant in managing uncertainty, complexity, and related risks. Trust reduces transaction costs, and increases spontaneous sociability (see Creed & Miles, 1996; Kramer, 1999). Trust can also have a critical role in enhancing knowledge creation and transfer within the organizational context (Kogut & Zander, 1992; Grant, 1996). Trust is an intriguing and paradoxical issue: in the modern society we need trust more than ever, yet we have less natural opportunities for trust to evolve (Lahno, 2002; Blomqvist, 2005).

Organizational learning research: Past, present and future

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Argote
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Research Themes ◽  
Organizational Experience ◽  
Learning Research

The article provides a brief overview of past research on organizational learning. Current research themes are identified, including taking a fine-grained approach to characterizing organizational experience, understanding the role of the organizational context in organizational learning, and analyzing processes and outcomes of knowledge creation, retention and transfer. The article concludes with a discussion of future research that is likely to advance our understanding of organizational learning.

Supportive Organizational Context for Teams: A Study of Construct Validity

2020 ◽  
pp. 002188632091718
Author(s):  
Camille Francoeur-Marquis ◽  
Caroline Aubé
Keyword(s):  
Resource Allocation ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Perceived Organizational Support ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Order Model ◽  
First Order ◽  
Multidimensional Representation

Despite a call within scientific literature to better account for contextual factors in team studies, very little research has systematically analyzed the potentially critical role of such factors, thus limiting organizations’ ability to provide contextual conditions that would foster team effectiveness. The Supportive Organizational Context for Teams (SOCT) construct effectively captures some of these factors (rewards, information, education, and resource allocation). However, while the internal consistency of the SOCT has been analyzed, its multidimensional representation has never been tested. In this study, we address these limitations by assessing the factor structure of a measure proposed by Wageman et al. (2005) and of its distinctive nature in relation to Perceived Organizational Support. Using a sample of 235 participants and the newly developed bifactor-ESEM framework, this study supports the notion that a high-order model is superior to a first-order model, and SOCT and Perceived Organizational Support are distinct from one another.

scholarly journals ECONOMICS AND CULTURE

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 282-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iwan Jaya Aziz
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Real World ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Economic Prosperity ◽  
Central Concept ◽  
Mainstream Economics

The notion that something that cannot be measured does not exist seems to apply to the absence of consideration of culture in economics, where the role of institutions is at the center of the link between the two. Yet, economic prosperity, crisis, and deprivation result from human behavior, reflecting the outcome of social learning—a central concept of culture. Institutions and culture interact and evolve in complementary ways. Each can affect the process of exchange and transaction costs, which in turn determine economic performance. Although more work has been done to better understand the interrelation between economics and culture, most falls on deaf ears among mainstream economists, despite the fact that real-world cases show the critical role of this interrelation. This paper demonstrates a deficiency of mainstream economics in its disregard of the role of culture and institutions.

Entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance in a sanctioned economy – does the CEO play a role?

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 1005-1027 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chiara Cannavale ◽  
Iman Zohoorian Nadali ◽  
Anna Esempio
Keyword(s):  
Entrepreneurial Orientation ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Hierarchical Regression ◽  
Entrepreneurial Firms ◽  
Economic Resilience ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Self Transcendence

PurposeEntrepreneurship, in many low-resilient economies, plays a critical role in overcoming external shocks. Thus, it is crucial in such situation that entrepreneurial firms can survive and even grow so that the whole economy can benefit from a higher level of resilience. The purpose of this study is to understand how entrepreneurial orientation (EO) brings about firms' performance through the moderating role of CEOs' self-transcendence values in the context of a low-resilient sanctioned economy.Design/methodology/approachThis is a quantitative research that employs hierarchical regression analysis of a sample of 114 Iranian entrepreneurial firms composed of 62 knowledge-based and 52 creative firms.FindingsThe analysis revealed that in the low-resilient sanctioned economy, Iran, EO-performance link is moderated by the level of CEOs' self-transcendence value, that is, higher level of CEO self-transcendence leads to stronger impact of EO on performance. This moderation is not different in creative sector vs. knowledge-based sector of the economy.Originality/valueThis paper addresses a major gap in the traditional EO-performance relationship which is related to the role of CEO values. Also, the context of Iran's low level of economic resilience adds more novelty to this study, emphasizing on the role of CEO personal values of self-transcendence in times of crisis. The results could also be generalized in many economies now facing the COVID-19 pandemic crisis during which CEOs' self-transcendence values are vitally important in overcoming the difficulties of doing business in such situation.

Collaborative Environments, Knowledge Creation and Knowledge Reuse for Railway Industries

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Di Gironimo ◽  
Antonio Lanzotti ◽  
Fabio Peluso ◽  
Alessio Balsamo
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Knowledge Reuse ◽  
Customer Requirements ◽  
Collaborative Environments ◽  
Time To Market ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Centralized Management ◽  
Research Activities

This paper deals with the development of a Knowledge Based Engineering (KBE) methodology for supporting a manufacturing company, in particular railway manufacturers, in their analyses for reusing existing products in new projects. The proposed methodology is based on the development of a Decision Support System (DSS) and the use of an analysis, called Adopt/Adapt/Innovate (AAI), aimed at identifying products already designed that fully or partly fit what required by new bids. The DSS is built within a PLM software and part of the research concentrated on comparing the PLM suites available in the market searching for the best tool able to act the role of a centralized management dashboard for knowledge reuse. DSS and AAI analysis are the base for future research activities for obtaining a KBE system that automatically models complex railway products starting from the customer requirements, drastically reducing the time to market.

scholarly journals Knowledge-based innovation and the city: The case of Belgrade

Spatium ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 35-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena Ivanovic-Vojvodic ◽  
Aleksandra Stupar
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Global Network ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Diffusion Of Knowledge ◽  
New Type ◽  
Spatial Formations

The critical role of research in overall progress generates a pressing need to study the relationship between a city and knowledge-based innovation. A number of socio-economic and political processes influence the development of contemporary cities by defining the beneficial balance between financial ambitions, environmental awareness and sustainability. Consequently, the role of innovation and knowledge has been emphasized as one of the crucial generators of urban success. The most recent initiatives originating from universities and research establishments stimulate the emergence of new spatial formations and digital upgrading, thus setting up a fertile environment for intellectual exchange and the production and diffusion of knowledge and innovations. This article questions the historical, social and technological implications of research on urban space. The focus is set on the case of Belgrade and the newly proposed project of a university campus with its evaluation based on the latest concepts related to the economy of knowledge. This new type of knowledge-based innovation node is intended to serve as a driver of Belgrade?s inclusion into the global network of innovative cities. However, this initiative is still in the domain of paper-architecture due to financial limitations and a change in development priorities by the new government.

scholarly journals Knowledge management process, knowledge based innovation: Does academic researcher’s productivity mediate during the pandemic of covid-19?

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (12) ◽  
pp. e0261573
Author(s):  
Fazal ur Rehman ◽  
Hishamuddin Ismail ◽  
Basheer M. Al Ghazali ◽  
Muhammad Mujtaba Asad ◽  
Muhammad Saeed Shahbaz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Management Process ◽  
Process Knowledge ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Academic Researchers

Drucker’s knowledge-worker productivity theory and knowledge-based view of the firm theory are widely employed in many disciplines but there is little application of these theories in knowledge-based innovation among academic researchers. Therefore, this study intends to evaluate the effects of the knowledge management process on knowledge-based innovation alongside with mediating role of Malaysian academic researchers’ productivity during the Pandemic of COVID-19. Using a random sampling technique, data was collected from 382 academic researchers. Questionnaires were self-administered and data was analyzed via Smart PLS-SEM. Knowledge management process and knowledge workers’ productivity have a positive and significant relationship with the knowledge-based innovation among academic researchers during the Pandemic of COVID-19. In addition, knowledge workers’ productivity mediates the relationship between the knowledge management process (knowledge creation, knowledge acquisition, knowledge sharing, and knowledge utilization) and knowledge-based innovation during the Pandemic of COVID-19. Results have also directed knowledge sharing as the key factor in knowledge-based innovation and a stimulating task for management discipline around the world during the Pandemic of COVID-19. This study provides interesting insights on Malaysian academic researchers’ productivity by evaluating the effects of knowledge creation, acquisition, sharing, and application on the knowledge-based innovation among academic researchers during the Pandemic of COVID-19. These useful insights would enable policymakers to develop more influential educational strategies. By assimilating the literature of defined variables, the main contribution of this study is the evaluation of knowledge creation, acquisition, sharing, and utilization into knowledge-based innovation alongside the mediating role of knowledge workers productivity in the higher education sector of Malaysia during the Pandemic of COVID-19.

scholarly journals Absorptive Capacity and Structural Congruence: The Binding Constraints on the Acquisition of Technologyan Analytical Survey of the Underlying Issues

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-140
Author(s):  
Gouranga Gopal Das
Keyword(s):  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Computable General Equilibrium ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Learning Effects ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Advanced Technologies ◽  
Inventive Activity ◽  
New Ideas

Inextricable links between international trade, growth and role of knowledge-creation are well-established in the economics literature. The issues of creation of technology, its diffusion and actual adoption have been discussed on both theoretical and empirical planes. Effective assimilation of advanced technologies hinges on the 'Absorptive Capacity' and the 'Structural Congruence' between source vis-à-vis the destinations; role of public policies for actual implementation of these new ideas is extremely crucial. This paper offers a synoptic overview of current research and sketch a possible extension of the analytical framework on an operationally feasible plane within the Computable General Equilibrium framework. The survey highlights that analysis of the issue of technology-induced growth in a knowledge-based society must further the analysis by highlighting the role of factors for capturing the benefits. It has been identified that the factors propelling the acquisition depend, inter alia, on human capital, infrastructures, learning effects, and indigenous inventive activity.

scholarly journals Role of Knowledge Creation and Absorptive Capacity: A Panel Data Study of Innovation

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-44
Author(s):  
Kamran Hameed ◽  
Noman Arshed ◽  
Mubbasher Munir
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Absorptive Capacity ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Quantitative Model ◽  
World Economic Forum ◽  
Innovative Performance ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
World Economic ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose- Knowledge creation refers to the ability of firms to create new knowledge that starts from individuals to integrating the firms and then the overall economy. This study suggests that knowledge acquisition in a country has a significant relationship with innovative performance. Design/Methodology- Data from 48 highly HDI countries is taken from World Bank and World Economic Forum. Based on 480 country-year observations in a panel mediator model, it is revealed that the national efforts of boosting knowledge acquisition influence the firms’ innovative performance. Findings- Further, it is found that absorptive capacity in the employability of knowledgeable workers works as a mediator between knowledge acquisition and innovation. Whereby higher knowledge acquisition leads to higher absorptive capacity and higher innovation. Practical Implications- This study builds a quantitative model for the macroeconomic context of knowledge-based view.

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