Journal of Knowledge Management: Volume 22 Issue 1

Firm’s strategic choices and network knowledge dynamics: how do they affect innovation?

Jose Antonio Belso-Martinez, Isabel Diez-Vial

This paper aims to explain how the evolution of knowledge networks and firms’ strategic choices affect innovation. Endogenous factors associated with a path-dependent evolution of…

Factors affecting Web 2.0 adoption: exploring the knowledge sharing and knowledge seeking aspects in health care professionals

Jang Bahadur Singh, Rajesh Chandwani, Mayank Kumar

This research aims to explore the factors that affect the adoption of Web 2.0 among knowledge workers. The research specifically investigated the role of factors related to both…

Impact of knowledge sharing, learning adaptability and organizational commitment on absorptive capacity in pharmaceutical firms based in Pakistan

Muhammad Rafique, Shafqat Hameed, Mujtaba Hassan Agha

Absorptive capacity being an emerging field of research has been studied in different perspectives both in technological aspects and soft issues. Although an original study of…

How employees perceive organizational learning: construct validation of the 25-item short form of the strategic learning assessment map (SF-SLAM)

Jakob Mainert, Christoph Niepel, Thomas Lans, Samuel Greiff

This study aims at the employees’ view on organizational learning (OL). OL is originally assessed in the Strategic Learning Assessment Map (SLAM) at the level of the firm by…

It is more blessed to give than to receive: examining the impact of knowledge sharing on sharers and recipients

Yu-Qian Zhu, Holly Chiu, Eduardo Jorge Infante Holguin-Veras

This study aims to debunk the myth that knowledge sharing will harm one’s competiveness, and argues, from the learning theory perspective, that sharing knowledge benefits both…

Exploring the antecedents and consequences of the transactive memory system: an empirical analysis

Chi-Cheng Huang, Ping-Kuo Chen

This study aims to explore the influence of social interaction processes on transactive memory system (TMS) practice, the mediation of knowledge integration to the relationship…

How ability, motivation and opportunity influence travel agents performance: the moderating role of absorptive capacity

Ahmed Mohamed Elbaz, Gomaa Mohamed Agag, Nasser Alhamar Alkathiri

This study aims to examine the influence of the three dimensions of travel agents’ manager competencies – ability, motivation and opportunity seeking – on knowledge transfer and…

Developmental mentoring, affective organizational commitment, and knowledge sharing in public accounting firms

Mary B. Curtis, Eileen Z. Taylor

This study aims to examine how public accounting firms can use developmental mentoring to increase knowledge sharing (KS) among employees directly and indirectly through affective…

Knowledge from customer, for customer or about customer: which triggers innovation capability the most?

Seyedeh Khadijeh Taghizadeh, Syed Abidur Rahman, Md. Mosharref Hossain

This paper examines the influence of three dimensions of customer knowledge management – knowledge from customer, knowledge for customer and knowledge about customer – on…

Managing organisational knowledge through recruitment: searching and selecting embodied competencies

Ingvild Jøranli

The creation of customized, technology-based services is highly dependent on experience-based knowledge embodied in individual expert employees. Therefore, knowledge upgrading…

Toward ontology of designer-user interaction in the design process: a knowledge management foundation

Jaehyun Park, Arkalgud Ramaprasad

The purpose of this study is to explore an ontology of designer-user interaction with a knowledge management foundation. To address this research gap, the authors ask the…

Strategic knowledge management and evolving local government

Harri Laihonen, Sari Mäntylä

The characteristics of new public management and new public governance are well known, but their impact on managerial knowledge needs and the implementation of knowledge…