Relational Flexibility

2010 ◽  
pp. 23-44
Author(s):  
Kalotina Chalkiti
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Job Descriptions ◽  
Organizational Flexibility ◽  
Relational Flexibility ◽  
New Type

This chapter investigates how the hospitality industry of the Northern Territory of Australia achieves organizational flexibility in dynamic labor environments. A case study in the Northern Territory of Australia reveals a new type of organizational flexibility, “relational flexibility.” Relational flexibility is the result of behaviors, which go beyond the scope of job descriptions, used to repair the relational disruptions of labor changes and to adapt to the inevitability of labor dynamism. With relational flexibility, hospitality businesses can become flexible, responsive, and adaptable to dynamic labor environments while ensuring knowledge management activities are not inhibited. This research highlights the central role of peer relationships in dynamic labor environments and contributes to the organizational flexibility, staff turnover, and hospitality knowledge management literature.

scholarly journals The impact of knowledge management on competitive advantage considering the mediating role of organizational agility Case study: the hospitality industry in Isfahan

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1513-1519
Author(s):  
Iraj Soltani ◽  
Ali Lavafan
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Organizational Agility ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Standard Questionnaire ◽  
Software Packages ◽  
The Impact

Competitive advantage, as aset of unique abilities in an organization, allows it to enter new markets and overcome competition. This paper aims to determine the impact of agility and knowledge management on competitive advantage. According to the available literature and research background, three hypotheses are formed and tested. The data for the study are collected using a standard questionnaire and analyzed by SPSS V.18.0 and AMOS V.20.0 software packages. The results indicate that knowledge management affects the ability to gain competitive advantage both directly and indirectly through organizational agility.

scholarly journals Dutcher's Impact: Wolastioqiyik Lintuwakonawa as a Case Study for the role of Music in Preserving Traditional Knowledge

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn E. Newhook
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Traditional Knowledge ◽  
Technical Skill ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Diverse Field ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
Knowledge Preservation

Knowledge Management is a diverse field of study, dealing in the facilitation of knowledge sharing, the creation of knowledge systems, knowledge transfer, and knowledge preservation. Information professionals play an important role in helping these processes happen. Equally important is the preservation of Traditional Knowledge. Recognized as the knowledge Indigenous people have accrued over millennia, and formed through their interactions with their environment, Traditional Knowledge and its preservation also fall into the world of Knowledge Management. The performance of a piece of music is the manifestation of knowledge and, in the case of Jeremy Dutcher, is a form of knowledge preservation. Traditional Knowledge’s more fluid and dynamic nature is preserved in Dutcher’s 2018 album Wolastioqiyik Lintuwakonawa, where the artist creates a conversation between technical skill and the knowledge and language of the album. In the case of this paper, Dutcher’s album serves as an example of the way Traditional Knowledge can impact and provide new tools to the information profession and world of Knowledge Management.

Governance of Strategies to Manage Organizational Knowledge

2005 ◽  
pp. 83-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Zyngier ◽  
Frada Burstein ◽  
Judy McKay
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Scientific Research ◽  
Knowledge Management Strategy ◽  
Internal Governance ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Governance Processes

This chapter introduces the theory and model of governance as a means of implementing knowledge management strategies in large organizations. It draws on case study research into the governance of knowledge management strategy implementation in a major scientific research and development facility. It suggests that the implementation of strategy through such a framework operates to ensure the delivery of anticipated benefits in an authorized and regulated manner. Furthermore, the authors hope that an understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of internal governance processes will not only inform researchers of a better design for studying knowledge management systems, but will also assist in the understanding of risks and the role of evaluation and review in the implementation of those strategies.

Strategic Knowledge Management System Framework for Supply Chain at an Intra-Organizational Level

2013 ◽  
pp. 142-163
Author(s):  
Cécile Gaumand ◽  
Alain Chapdaniel ◽  
Aurélie Dudezert
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Sustainable Competitive Advantage ◽  
Organizational Knowledge Creation ◽  
Role Of It ◽  
Strategic Knowledge Management ◽  
The Web

In the Web 2.0 and organization 2.0 era, implementing Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) in Supply Chain (SC) in companies should contribute to gain sustainable competitive advantage. Using a case-study in an Italian SME (BONFIGLIOLI), this chapter seeks to propose new processes and recommendations to design and operate an efficient KMS for a SC at an intra-organizational level. This case study shows in particular the role of IT as an artifact implying individuals in organizational knowledge creation. It also shows that implementing KMS in SC makes SC actors change their cognitive scheme and work practices and calls for a new role of middle management.

Managing the Standardization Knowledge Codification Paradox

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.

“Aesthetic regime” in urban entrepreneurialism: public art venues in Shanghai

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-125
Author(s):  
Jane Zheng
Keyword(s):  
Recent Decade ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Social Mechanisms ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Urban Policies ◽  
Purposeful Sampling ◽  
Metropolitan Cities ◽  
New Type

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand urban sculpture venues that emerged in the recent decade and their connections to the on-going entrepreneurial urban policies and urban strategies in Shanghai. How does this phenomenon relate to Shanghai’s urban policies? How does urban sculpture development reflect the nature and characteristics of the urban sculpture authority? Design/methodology/approach Case study is the major research method used to achieve an in-depth understanding of the developmental processes, mechanisms and characteristics of urban sculpture projects. Three cases were selected and studied using purposeful sampling methods, including Duolun Road Sculpture Project (2002), the Shanghai International Sculpture Center (2006) and the Jing’an Sculpture Park (2009). Findings A twofold main argument is established in this paper. Urban sculpture venues emerged as a new type of instrument to advance urban entrepreneurial policies; the use of this instrument, however, also involves politics in that art politically transforms the features and functions of open spaces in Shanghai. Originality/value Although scholarly interest in exploring cultural development through urban planning in the Chinese context is evident, urban sculpture planning (termed as “urban sculpture” in the Chinese ideological context) in Chinese metropolitan cities, in particular, is an unexplored topic, and thus leaves a gap in the knowledge. This paper introduces a new conceptual model, i.e., “aesthetic regime,” to describe the role of the urban sculpture authority in the development of the urban sculpture scene. It looks at the artistic representation of artworks, design of the sculpture venues, functionality of the artworks and social mechanisms for the actualization of these projects. An evolutional trend of the three sites across the decade is concerned.

Tally Ho Boys' Training Farm, Aboriginal children and the intersection of school, welfare and justice systems, 1950s–1960s

2020 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Marsden
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Northern Territory ◽  
Limited Attention ◽  
Education Department ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Justice Systems ◽  
Post War ◽  
Aboriginal Children

PurposeThis paper draws on the archival records of the Victorian Education Department, literature produced by the governing authority of Tally Ho (the Central Mission), and newspaper reports produced in the mid-20th century about school and education at Tally Ho. This paper also draws on material from the Victorian Aborigines Welfare Board and the Northern Territory Department of Welfare, as well as two historical key government inquiries into the institutionalisation of children.Design/methodology/approachThis paper uses Tally Ho Boys’ Training Farm as a case study to examine the intersection of welfare systems, justice systems and schooling and education for Aboriginal children in institutions like Tally Ho in the mid-20th century. Further, it provides perspectives on how institutions such as Tally Ho were utilised by governments in Victoria and the Northern Territory to pursue different agendas – sometimes educational – particular to Aboriginal children. This paper also explores how histories can be reconstructed when archives are missing or silent about histories of Aboriginal childhood.FindingsThis paper demonstrates how governments used Tally Ho to control and govern the lives of Aboriginal children. By drawing together archives from a range of bodies and authorities who controlled legislation and policies, this paper contributes new understandings about the role of institutions in Victoria to the assimilation policies of Victoria and the Northern Territory in the mid-20th century.Originality/valueScholarship on the institutionalisation of children in the post-war era in Victoria, including the ways that schooling and justice systems were experienced by children living in care, has failed to fully engage with the experiences of Aboriginal children. Historians have given limited attention to the experiences of Aboriginal children living in institutions off Aboriginal reserves in Victoria. There has been limited historical scholarship examining the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children at Tally Ho. This paper broadens our understandings about how Aboriginal children encountered institutionalisation in Victoria.

scholarly journals DEFINING AND DESIGN UNDERSTANDING THE VARIOUS REALMS OF HOSPITALITY DISCIPLINE: AN ENVIRONMENTALIST ECO-RESPONSIBLE GOLF RESORT

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-73
Author(s):  
Rahul Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Hospitality Industry ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Hospitality Sector ◽  
Conceptual Study ◽  
Over Time

Purpose of study: The purpose of this conceptual study is to develop a more better understanding of hospitality One of the oldest profession known over time. Methodology: This article is based on a conceptual study of the various definitions and sectors of the hospitality sector. This article also presents the various studies by different researchers and presents how a variety of researchers have classified hospitality in their studies. Main Findings:  This study has provided a new understanding of the hospitality industry and the various sectors associated with it. Social Implications/Applications: This case study is a conceptual study done to define and understand the concept of hospitality in a much better perspective and it can help researchers from varied realms of hospitality to have much valuable insights of this term. Originality: Hospitality has been defined by many researchers in many perspectives. This study has been done with a rigorous literature review then defined the term in a combination which has all aspects related to it. The study has then been supported by a case study of an eco-friendly resort- The Karma Lakelands. This study has been done to understand, explore and extend the basic principles of hospitality and the role of interior designing in it.

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