Journal of Knowledge Management: Volume 18 Issue 5

Managerial practices and operative directions of knowledge management within inter-firm networks: a global view

Manlio Del Giudice, Vincenzo Maggioni

The purpose of this special issue s to cover a substantial range of approach to knowledge management penetrating inquiry that goes beyond intra-organizational learning processes…

Directions of external knowledge search: investigating their different impact on firm performance in high-technology industries

Jorge Cruz-González, Pedro López-Sáez, José Emilio Navas-López, Miriam Delgado-Verde

– The aim of the paper is to identify the different directions of external knowledge search and to investigate their individual effect on performance at the firm level.

Interorganisational partnerships and knowledge sharing: the perspective of non-profit organisations (NPOs)

Dinesh Rathi, Lisa M. Given, Eric Forcier

This paper aims first to identify key interorganisational partnership types among non-profit organisations (NPOs) and second to determine how knowledge sharing takes place within…

Conflict and learning in inter-organizational online communities: negotiating knowledge claims

Julie Ferguson, Yvette Taminiau

The purpose of this article is to analyze how learning occurs in inter-organizational online communities, despite highly diverse even conflicting knowledge claims among…

Knowledge management practices for innovation: a multinational corporation’s perspective

Daniel Jiménez-Jiménez, Micaela Martínez-Costa, Raquel Sanz-Valle

This paper aims to assess the importance of different knowledge management practices to promote organizational innovation in multinational companies. The links among…

How do R&D employees use their social networks to acquire user information?

Carl Wadell, Jennie Björk, Mats Magnusson

This article aims to investigate how R&D employees use their social networks to acquire user information and how this information is used in the development of new products…

Dynamic efficiency: intellectual capital in the Chinese non-life insurance firms

Qian Long Kweh, Wen-Min Lu, Wei-Kang Wang

– This paper aims to investigate the effect of intellectual capital (IC) on the operating efficiency of non-life insurance firms in China.

Knowledge creation and exploitation in Italian universities: the role of internal policies for patent activity

Marco Romano, Manlio Del Giudice, Melita Nicotra

This paper aims at identifying factors that might affect academic patent activities. It investigates the characteristics of universities acting on the number of academic patents…

Industrial cluster involvement, organizational learning, and organizational adaptation:an exploratory study in high technology industrial districts

Hilary Cheng, Ming-Shan Niu, Kuei-Hsien Niu

The primary purpose of this study is to examine the relationships among a firm’s industrial cluster involvement, organizational learning and its ability to successfully adapt to…

Creating technological knowledge in vintage communities of practice

Francesco Schiavone, Stefano Borzillo

The purpose of this paper is to show how members of a “vintage community of practice” (CoP) – the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator (MAME) community – recombine old technological…

What matters for knowledge sharing in collectivistic cultures? Empirical evidence from China

Zhenzhong Ma, Yufang Huang, Jie Wu, Weiwei Dong, Liyun Qi

The purpose of this study is to identify key factors that facilitate knowledge sharing in collectivistic cultures and further help better understand knowledge management in the…

Dynamics of ultra-organizational co-opetition and circuits of knowledge: a knowledge-based view of value ecology

Elias George Carayannis, Audrey Depeige, Stavros Sindakis

The purpose of this paper is to analyze important theoretical work conducted in the research streams of co-opetition and value creation. While innovation is acknowledged as a…

Knowledge sharing and exchange of information within bank and firm networks: the role of the intangibles on the access to credit

Maria Rosaria Della Peruta, Francesco Campanella, Manlio Del Giudice

The purpose of this paper is to theoretically develop the idea that the intangible value of the collaboration between firms and the banking system can influence the probability of…