On Leadership, Intellectual Capital Creation and IT Governance

2011 ◽  
pp. 143-156
Author(s):  
David O’Donnell ◽  
Lin Guo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
It Governance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pragmatic Argument

This chapter positions a discussion of intellectual capital, governance, IT and leadership in the context of a resource-based and dynamic capabilities view of the firm. It then discusses in very pragmatic terms how leadership may be associated with IT governance and both knowledge sharing and knowledge creation from a micro-practices perspective. The chapter then presents four vignettes on the experiences of exemplary pioneering leaders to illustrate this argument. The leaders chosen are Leif Edvinsson of Scandia in Sweden, Robert Buckman of Buckman Laboratories in the United States, Hu Gang of NCD in China, and Lars Kolind of Oticon in Denmark. The chapter concludes with the pragmatic argument that leadership matters.

scholarly journals Knowledge Sharing Through MS SharePoint

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-30
Author(s):  
Lorette Weldon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Information Management ◽  
The United States ◽  
Team Environment ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Information Professionals

Microsoft SharePoint is being used in Government, private, public and association offices throughout the United States. SharePoint was created to increase accountability for projects within a team environment. How could SharePoint help increase accountability in information management? This article will review SharePoint’s positive and negative characteristics in the hopes of helping information professionals understand what SharePoint really is in the information world and how it can be applied to libraries and other information management organizations.

Transcolonial Racial Formation

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaejoon Kwon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Formation ◽  
Military Occupation ◽  
Southern Korea ◽  
Racial Knowledge ◽  
The U.S

The author examines the process of racial knowledge creation within the context of U.S. empire and its military occupation of southern Korea from 1945 to 1948. The author uses a postcolonial sociohistorical approach to analyze archival sources authored by U.S. military occupation administrators, advisers, and journalists. The author argues that the U.S. military occupation was in practice colonialism, and that the United States pulled racial knowledge gained through previous colonial experiences and from British and Japanese empires to construct the racial script of the “Irish of the Orient.” Through this script, the United States justified the need for a military occupation by reading Koreans through colonial constructions of Irish drunkenness and joviality as well as Filipino immaturity. Conversely, the script signaled the potential of Koreans to eventually become democratic subjects. Through the metaphor of the “Irish of the Orient,” the author finds that the racial formation of Koreans during the U.S. military occupation exemplified the relational, nonlinear, and transcolonial process of racial formation.

scholarly journals Performance stability among small and medium-sized enterprises during COVID-19: A test of the efficacy of dynamic capabilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 026624262110332
Author(s):  
Jack A Clampit ◽  
Melanie P Lorenz ◽  
John E Gamble ◽  
Jim Lee
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Note ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
And Performance

COVID-19 wreaked havoc on public health and the global economy. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) were hit especially hard. In this research note, we test the ability of dynamic capabilities (DCs) to predict SME performance during the pandemic. Based on our analysis of data from a survey conducted in the United States, we find that DCs meaningfully predicted both operational levels and revenue. Furthermore, while the empirical literature suggests that SME size is positively related to DC efficacy, we found that this effect was reversed during COVID-19, as the positive link between DCs and performance was stronger for smaller SMEs.

scholarly journals GLOBAL MARKET OF INTELLIGENT INVESTMENTS: EXPERIENCE FOR UKRAINE

2021 ◽  
pp. 149-165
Author(s):  
Nataliia YURCHUK ◽  
Svitlana KIPORENKO
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Global Market ◽  
General Definition ◽  
Industrial Property ◽  
Innovation Activities ◽  
Global Innovation ◽  
Innovative Products

The article deals with the meaning of the concept of «intellectual investment». It was found that this economic category is quite diverse and most foreign and domestic scientists give only a general definition. Based on the studied approaches to understanding the essence of intellectual investment, the authors provide their own interpretation of this economic category. So, intellectual investment is any investment in intangible assets: training and retraining, research and development, transfer of know-how, creation of innovative products for additional economic benefits. A number of features that distinguish investments in intellectual capital from other types of investments are identified and attention is paid to approaches to the classification of types of intellectual investments. It is established that the leading countries in the implementation of intellectual investment in 2020 are China, the United States, Japan, Britain, Germany, and the trend of increasing the share of spending on innovation is observed in such regions as Asia and the Middle East, respectively. The place of the countries in the ranking of the Global Innovation Index, which is headed by Switzerland, Sweden and the United States, followed by Great Britain and the Netherlands, is described. The level of development of intellectual investments in Ukraine in terms of financing of innovation activities during 2016-2020, as well as in terms of receipt of applications for industrial property in Ukraine and the world is analyzed. The main negative factors that hinder the development of intellectual investment in Ukraine are assessed, and on the basis of world experience the effects that can be obtained as a result of investing in intellectual capital at different economic levels are highlighted. Due to the fact that Ukraine is losing its authority and attractiveness in the field of invention in the international arena, it is proposed to create a clear program to attract investment in intellectual capital, increase the share of budget funds for development and implementation of innovations, introduce programs to encourage the return of scientists. who previously emigrated.

Value creation: the future of knowledge management

2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 283-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHALEE VORAKULPIPAT ◽  
YACINE REZGUI
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Societal Values ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
Holistic Understanding ◽  
Knowledge Value

AbsractThe paper provides a review of knowledge management (KM) literature with a focus on recent value creation trends of the KM discipline. The review spans a large spectrum of KM research ranging from the ‘soft’ (socio-organizational) to technical dimensions of KM, published in the academic and trade literature. An interpretive stance is adopted so as to provide a holistic understanding and interpretation of organizational KM research and models. Value creation is grounded in the appropriate combination of human network, social capital, intellectual capital, and technology assets, facilitated by a culture of change. It is argued that to be effective organizations need not only to negotiate their migration from a knowledge sharing to a knowledge creation culture, but also to create sustained organizational and societal values. The latter form the foundation of the proposed ‘knowledge value creation’ concept and represent key organizational and societal challenges faced by modern organizations.

On Trust, Knowledge Sharing and Innovation

2014 ◽  
pp. 144-165
Author(s):  
Isabel Martins ◽  
Ana Martins ◽  
Orlando Petiz Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Dynamic Capabilities ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
Organisational Knowledge ◽  
Public Organisations ◽  
Capital Development ◽  
Employee Learning ◽  
The Relationship

Organisations continuously innovate, create, and are competitive if they improve their performance through continuous intellectual capital development, a key resource for value creation and organisational performance driver. Apart from sustaining competitive advantage, intellectual capital is increasingly important due to its ability to increase shareholder value, especially in public organisations. Employee learning, talent development, and knowledge creation allow the organisation to generate innovative ideas due to the quickness of knowledge obsolescence. The organisation’s dynamic capabilities create and re-ignite organisational competencies for business sustainability being co-ordinated by well-structured organisational strategic routines ensuring continuous value creation streams into the business. This chapter focuses on the relationship between notions of knowledge sharing and trust in organisations. Lack of trust can impact negatively organisational knowledge sharing, dependent on trust, openness, and communication. The research sample included graduates and postgraduate students from two universities in Portugal. The findings revealed different perceptions according to the age group.

scholarly journals DUAL ALLEGIANCE, KNOWLEDGE SHARING, AND KNOWLEDGE PROTECTION: AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (06) ◽  
pp. 1340022 ◽  
Author(s):  
KENNETH HUSTED ◽  
SNEJINA MICHAILOVA ◽  
HEIDI OLANDER
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Original Data ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Empirical Examination ◽  
Knowledge Protection ◽  
Dual Allegiance

Earlier research has put forward the theoretical proposition that R&D employees exhibit different patterns of allegiance — they tend to either develop a unilateral allegiance (to their own firm or to the inter-firm collaboration), a dual low allegiance or a dual high allegiance. It has also been proposed that each particular allegiance type influences these employees' knowledge sharing behaviour. The present paper empirically tests these claims. Analysing original data collected through 50 interviews that took place in 2011 and 2012 in the R&D units of two global firms in Finland, the United States, and China, we confirm that these allegiance patterns exist and there is a relationship between allegiance and knowledge sharing behaviour. We also extend the previous theoretical framework on which the study is based and analyse not only knowledge sharing, but also knowledge protection behaviour.

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