Exploring Institutional Behavioural Elements Needed to Support Knowledge Management in Higher Education Partnerships

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Enis Elezi ◽  
Robert Wood
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Market Competitiveness ◽  
Exchange Processes ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Absorptive Capacities ◽  
Higher Education Partnerships ◽  
Amount Of Knowledge ◽  
Executives And Managers

As market competitiveness in the higher education sector continues to grow, higher education executives and managers are exploring alternatives of maintaining and growing market share by forming partnerships with other higher education institutions. Collaborative initiatives amongst higher education institutions are driven by key stakeholders, higher education executives, managers, academics, and administrators, who are involved in a significant amount of knowledge exchange processes at institutional and departmental levels. Entering into a partnership and managing knowledge at intra-institutional levels becomes a very important, challenging, and complex task. This chapter argues that in order to develop effective higher education partnerships, executives and managers will need to channel their efforts and resources on four institutional, behavioural elements, which include institutional culture, trust, absorptive capacities and communication channels.

scholarly journals ASSESSMENT OF TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER OFFICE PERFORMANCE FOR VALUE CREATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 1063-1081 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jelena STANKEVIČIENĖ ◽  
Lidija KRAUJALIENĖ ◽  
Agnė VAICIUKEVIČIŪTĖ
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Transfer Performance ◽  
Business Partnerships ◽  
Transfer Policy

Innovative activities, knowledge exchange, patenting and commercialization of know-how are crucial to the value creation process in higher education institutions and other research organizations. The article analyses the technology transfer performance indicators of value creation. The methodology to identify and assess the technology transfer activities with the highest impact on created value are proposed in the paper. The following research methods were invoked: FARE method, allowed to calculate weights of each technology transfer performance indicator, when TOPSIS method redress all different indicators’ results and rank universities. The application of the proposed methodology was based on empirical data collected from Lithuanian universities. The results of the study reveal the importance of science business partnerships, TTO competence and scientists’ trust of TTO, applying particular technology transfer policy. The obtained results would be beneficial for universities technology transfer policy formation to maximize universities created value.

A Case Study of Organizational Learning

1991 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Tiler ◽  
Michael Gibbons
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Knowledge Base ◽  
Learning Organization ◽  
Small Firms ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Competitive Performance

The authors set out their view of the firm as a learning organization, outline the objectives of the Teaching Company Scheme, and assess the ways in which it works in practice. They explore how firms are able to use the scheme effectively to tap in to knowledge held within higher-education institutions and so extend their knowledge base and increase their competitive performance. They look also at the potential for expanding the Scheme to operate in different contexts and for different kinds of knowledge-exchange problems. In particular, they examine the potential for extending the Scheme into greater numbers of small firms, and the problems likely to be encountered in doing so.

scholarly journals Employability in higher education: a review of key stakeholders' perspectives

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming Cheng ◽  
Olalekan Adekola ◽  
JoClarisse Albia ◽  
Sanfa Cai
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Employment Rate ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Documentary Analysis ◽  
Graduate Employability ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
The Uk

PurposeEmployability is a key concept in higher education. Graduate employment rate is often used to assess the quality of university provision, despite that employability and employment are two different concepts. This paper will increase the understandings of graduate employability through interpreting its meaning and whose responsibility for graduate employability from the perspectives of four key stakeholders: higher education institutions, students, government and employers.Design/methodology/approachThere are two stages to this literature review which was undertaken across bibliographic databases. The first stage builds a conceptual understanding of employability, relating to definition and how employability can be achieved and enhanced from the perspective of stakeholders. A structured search employing Boolean searches was conducted using a range of terms associated with key stakeholders. The second round of review drew on documentary analysis of official statements, declarations, documents, reports and position papers issued by key stakeholders in the UK, available online.FindingsIt reveals that responsibility for employability has been transferred by the UK government to higher education institutions, despite clear evidence that it needs to be shared by all the key stakeholders to be effective. In addition, there is a gap between employers' expectation for employability and the government's employability agenda.Originality/valueThis article highlights that solely using employment rate statistics as a key indicator for employability will encourage the practice of putting employers' needs above knowledge creation and the development of academic disciplines, with the consequence that higher education will become increasingly vocation driven.

Developing Railway Higher Education in the European Union and United States

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pasi T. Lautala ◽  
Rosa´rio Ma´ca´rio ◽  
Jo¨rn Pachl ◽  
J. Riley Edwards ◽  
William J. Sproule
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
European Union ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
The United States ◽  
Research Network ◽  
Rail Transportation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Railway Systems

Congestion, emissions generated by transportation, increasing fuel costs and expanding demand for mobility have revived the interest for modern rail transportation throughout the world. Simultaneously, expansion of global trade and increasing demands for technology to improve the safety and productivity of the industry are creating a new environment that requires a different way of thinking when developing railway systems. Overall, the authors believe that current changes provide a fertile ground for institutions of higher education in the United States and the European Union (EU) to increase their transatlantic cooperation in education and research. Recent studies related to railway higher education have been undertaken in Europe and the United States. The European Rail Research Network of Excellence (EURNEX) conducted a study to develop and organize educational and training activities in participating higher education institutions. In Germany, a comprehensive inventory was conducted to define the current level of rail transportation activities in higher education institutions. In the United States, American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA) conducted a study to determine the type and extent of rail education currently offered on campuses. In addition, a benchmarking study was performed by Michigan Tech University to investigate rail education and recruitment at universities with the objective to define the quantitative and qualitative demands for rail engineers by industry employers. This paper presents a synopsis of these past studies and introduces an on-going “TUNRail” project to “tune” and intensify the railway higher education knowledge exchange and collaboration between the EU and the United States.

scholarly journals Stakeholder Identification in Vietnamese Private Higher Education Institutions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
AISDL
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Private Higher Education ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Stakeholder Identification ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Key Informant ◽  
Private Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Compare And Contrast

The purpose of this study is to provide empirical insights into stakeholder identification (SI) in specific context of Vietnamese private higher education institutions (VPHEIs). Existing literature points to the pervasive relationship-centric paradigm of stakeholder identification that is applicable to higher education institutions (HEIs). This paper argues that VPHEIs need to effectively manage relationships with stakeholders who influence challenging issues that face the institutions. This paper addresses the question: how do VPHEIs identify stakeholders? Data from key informant interviews and participant observations were triangulated to compare and contrast the findings. The key finding is that VPHEIs management identify key stakeholders differently. The data indicated that interpersonal relationships influence VPHEIs management approach to stakeholder identification rather than the understanding and application of stakeholder theory

scholarly journals Social media as a tool of knowledge sharing in academia: an empirical study using valance, instrumentality and expectancy (VIE) approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 2531-2552
Author(s):  
Sheshadri Chatterjee ◽  
Nripendra P. Rana ◽  
Yogesh K. Dwivedi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Knowledge Exchange ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Indian Higher Education ◽  
Use Of Social Media

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand the factors that determine the knowledge exchange intention and behavioural nature of academics by the help of social media tools in the Indian higher education. Design/methodology/approach This study has used valance–instrumentality–expectancy (VIE) theory to determine the knowledge exchange behaviour of academics. The study has considered the effects of knowledge contributor (KC) and knowledge seeker (KS) as moderators. The model has been validated by using a survey with 320 usable respondents. Findings The results highlight that if the stakeholders of higher education institutions feel the deficits of knowledge exchange, they realize importance of knowledge sharing and use social media to increase effect of knowledge exchange. Besides, perceived usefulness impacts on the use of social media for knowledge exchange by the concerned stakeholders. Moreover, it is observed that experience of the use of social media impacts the use of this tool for knowledge exchange. Research limitations/implications The use and application of VIE theory have successfully been able to interpret the factors affecting use of social media for knowledge exchange in higher educational institutes. The use of VIE theory has also been able to explain the proposed model better as the model could achieve a high explanative power (87%). Practical implications This study has provided meaningful insights to the practitioners and policymakers to realize how the stakeholders of the higher education institutions in India can be motivated to feel the need of sharing of knowledge and how they can use social media with ease for this purpose. Originality/value Not much research has been conducted with regard to the usage of social media as a tool for knowledge sharing in higher education sector in India. In that sense, this study is a novel attempt to undertake such research.

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