Journal of Knowledge Management: Volume 19 Issue 5

From knowledge to knowing, from boundaries to boundary construction

Knowledge management is shot through with complex questions. This is certainly the case with regard to boundaries, as they constitute both a bounding line that has to be crossed…

Solicitation of experts in an undetermined environment: the case of a polar exploration

The purpose of this paper is to understand the solicitation of outside experts in the upstream phase of innovation projects, which fall within the scope of the exploration and…

Outsourcing of strategic resources and capabilities: opposing choices in the commercial aircraft manufacturing

This paper aims to address the questions of different outsourcing strategies between Airbus and Boeing and point out the theoretical limits of the resource-based view (RBV…

Sourcing knowledge for innovation: knowledge reuse and creation in project teams

– The purpose of this paper is to investigate motivations of team members to source knowledge and how the sourced knowledge increases their reuse and creation outcomes.

Knowledge at the boundary between science and society: a review of the use of farmers’ knowledge in agricultural development

The purpose of this paper was to build a review of the various management processes of this knowledge in this domain, with the aim of identifying research topics and perspectives…

Learning from complex and heterogeneous experiences: the role of knowledge codification

The purpose of this paper is to study organizational learning from complex and heterogeneous experiences. According to March (2010), this kind of high intellect learning is…

The role of organizational and social capital in the firm’s absorptive capacity

This paper aims to ask the question of the contingency of a firm’s absorptive capacity upon the type of expected outcome. Thus, this paper looks at different expected outputs in…

Investing in transferable strategic human capital through alliances in the luxury hotel industry

The purpose of this paper is explore an organizational design that allows firms to invest in transferable strategic human capital. Strategic human capital requires considerable…

Crowding at the frontier: boundary spanners, gatekeepers and knowledge brokers

– This paper aims to contribute to defining the concepts of boundary spanner, gatekeeper and knowledge broker.

Strategizing across boundaries: revisiting knowledge brokering activities in French innovation clusters

Cooperative relationships between actors located in the same geographical area that are economically independent and culturally distinct are the heart of functioning innovation…

SECI and inter-organizational and intercultural knowledge transfer: a case-study of controversies around a project of co-operation between France and China in the health sector

The purpose of this paper is to study the obstacles to knowledge transfer between organizations belonging to different cultures by making use of the socialization–externalization…

Living Lab as knowledge system: an actual approach for managing urban service projects?

This paper aims to explore Living Labs (LL) as knowledge systems for urban service projects. This empirical study aims to identify and characterize knowledge in LL dedicated to…

Knowing across boundaries