Journal of Knowledge Management: Volume 21 Issue 6

Knowledge collaboration between organizations and online communities: the role of open innovation intermediaries

Krithika Randhawa, Emmanuel Josserand, Jochen Schweitzer, Danielle Logue

This research paper aims to examine how open innovation (OI) intermediaries facilitate knowledge collaboration between organizations and online user communities. Drawing on a…

Antecedents and effects of individual absorptive capacity: a micro-foundational perspective on open innovation

Sandor Lowik, Jeroen Kraaijenbrink, Aard J. Groen

The paper aims to understand how individuals differ in individual absorptive capacity – their ability to recognize, assimilate, transform and exploit external knowledge. These…

Absorptive capacity in virtual teams: examining the influence on diversity and innovation

Fadi S. Batarseh, John M. Usher, Joshua J. Daspit

The purpose of the study is to empirically extend and validate a measure of absorptive capacity (ACAP) and examine its role in leveraging the benefits of diversity on innovation…

Managing knowledge assets for open innovation: a systematic literature review

Angelo Natalicchio, Lorenzo Ardito, Tommaso Savino, Vito Albino

Knowledge assumes a pivotal role in the open innovation (OI) paradigm. Yet OI has been scantly investigated by adopting a knowledge management (KM) lens. Therefore, the purpose of…

Managing knowledge in open innovation processes: an intellectual property perspective

Peter M. Bican, Carsten C. Guderian, Anne Ringbeck

As firms turn their innovation activities toward collaborating with external partners, they face additional challenges in managing their knowledge. While different modes of…

Knowledge translation mechanisms in open innovation: the role of design in R&D projects

Luca Simeone, Giustina Secundo, Giovanni Schiuma

This paper aims to investigate the role of design as a knowledge translation mechanism in R&D-oriented open innovation. In particular, the paper intends to look at how design can…

Implementing open innovation: conceptual design of an integrated ICT platform

Davide Aloini, Giulia Farina, Valentina Lazzarotti, Luisa Pellegrini

The aim of this paper is to develop the conceptual design of an information and communication technologies (ICT) platform supporting the inbound open innovation (OI) process…

How family firms execute open innovation strategies: the Loccioni case

Elena Casprini, Alfredo De Massis, Alberto Di Minin, Federico Frattini, Andrea Piccaluga

This paper aims to shed light on how family firms execute open innovation strategies by managing internal and external knowledge flows.

Towards an integrated framework of intrinsic motivators, extrinsic motivators and knowledge sharing

Kuok Kei Law, Andrew Chan, Muammer Ozer

This paper aims to develop an integrated framework to demonstrate the individual and combined effects of intrinsic and extrinsic motivators on two forms of knowledge sharing…

Linking procedural memory with organizational learning through knowledge corridors

Juan-Gabriel Cegarra-Navarro, Anthony Wensley, Daniel Jimenez-Jimenez, Antonio Sotos-Villarejo

This paper argues that the combination of factors that facilitate focal and peripheral vision represent two distinct types of knowledge corridors. While focal vision may help…

Are winemaker consultants just another source of knowledge for innovation?

David Doloreux, Ekaterina Turkina

This paper aims to explore the effects of multiple external sources of knowledge and of the use of winemaker consultants on innovation in the Canadian wine industry.

The rhetoric of “knowledge hoarding”: a research-based critique

Clive Trusson, Donald Hislop, Neil F. Doherty

This paper responds to a recent trend towards reifying “knowledge hoarding” for purposes of quantitative/deductive research, via a study of information technology (IT) service…

Characteristics of knowledge, people engaged in knowledge transfer and knowledge stickiness: evidence from Chinese R&D team

Huang Huan, Ma Yongyuan, Zhang Sheng, Dou Qinchao

The aim of this study is to provide some important insights for knowledge stickiness from the perspective of the characteristic of knowledge and the people engaged in the…

Organizational unlearning and knowledge transfer in cross-border M&A: the roles of routine and knowledge compatibility

Xiangyang Wang, Yujuan Xi, Jingsi Xie, Yingxin Zhao

The purpose of this study is to adopt the perspective of congruence to explore how organizational unlearning facilitates knowledge transfer in cross-border mergers and…

Assessing the universality of knowledge management practices

Henri Hussinki, Aino Kianto, Mika Vanhala, Paavo Ritala

This paper aims to contribute to the emerging discussion on the contextualization of knowledge-oriented research by examining the universality of knowledge management (KM…

How does individuals’ exchange orientation moderate the relationship between transformational leadership and knowledge sharing?

Yuting Xiao, Xi Zhang, Patricia Ordóñez de Pablos

This study aims to explore the complex relationship between leadership and organizational knowledge sharing by investigating the moderating role of exchange ideology on the…