Journal of Knowledge Management: Volume 26 Issue 9

Preventing organizational knowledge leakage: the influence of knowledge seekers’ awareness, motivation and capability

James M. Bloodgood, Andrew N.K. Chen

This study aims to investigate how a knowledge-seeking organization’s awareness of valuable knowledge, and the motivation and capability to acquire the knowledge, influence…

Internationalization and knowledge management strategies of service firms: impact of regulatory environment in regional markets

Christopher Findlay, Hussain Gulzar Rammal, Elizabeth Rose, Vijay Pereira

This study aims to the influence and impact of regulations and highlights the barriers to market entry faced by Australian professional service firms in the European Union (EU…

What drives inter-organisational knowledge management? The cause and effect analysis using a multi-layer multi-criteria decision-making framework

Hannan Amoozad Mahdiraji, Moein Beheshti, Vahid Jafari-Sadeghi, Alexeis Garcia-Perez

Knowledge management seeks collaborative practices among organisations to generate technical, adapt and share knowledge to obtain a sustainable competitive advantage in…

Industry 4.0 transition: a systematic literature review combining the absorptive capacity theory and the data–information–knowledge hierarchy

Lorenzo Ardito, Roberto Cerchione, Erica Mazzola, Elisabetta Raguseo

The effect of the transition toward digital technologies on today’s businesses (i.e. Industry 4.0 transition) is becoming increasingly relevant, and the number of studies that…

Will extrinsic motivation motivate or demotivate knowledge contributors? A moderated mediation analysis

Yongqiang Sun, Yiwen Zhang, Xiao-Liang Shen

Prior studies fail to reach a consensus on the effects of extrinsic motivation (EM) on knowledge contribution in virtual communities. To fill this research gap, this research…

Does knowledge structure matter? Key factors influencing formal and informal knowledge sharing in manufacturing

Peihan Wen, Ruiquan Wang

This study aims to investigate the factors from four dimensions that have an effect both on formal and informal knowledge sharing (FKS and IKS) and the relationship between…

Putting the cart (antecedents) before the horse (absorptive capacity): the role of competitive antecedents to the absorptive capacity innovation process

Desmond Ng, Leonardo F. Sanchez-Aragon

The purpose of this study is to theoretically and empirically advance a concept of competitive antecedents to absorptive capacity (AC) research and to explain their relationship…

Tacit knowledge sharing in small audit firms and audit quality inputs: the antecedent effect of auditors’ social capital

Ibrahim Emair Albawwat

Drawing on the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (IAASB) audit quality framework and related knowledge management literature, this study aims to examine the…

Knowledge management for extreme public health events COVID-19: based on Tiktok data

Dandan Xu, Shuo Yan, Yuhan Zhang, Si Zhang, Yoshiteru Nakamori, Lili Chen

Taking the COVID-19 as the background, this study aims to investigate the direct influencing factors regarding knowledge sharing behavior (KSB) on new media platforms and discuss…

Does bad gossiping trigger for targets to hide knowledge in morally disengaged? New multi-level insights of team relational conflict

Abdul Gaffar Khan, Yan Li, Zubair Akram, Umair Akram

Despite the recent extending research on knowledge hiding, there is still scant research on social stressor phenomena-related contextual antecedent factors and new cognitive…

Born brothers, born global: multiple possible faces of the internationalization path

Francesco Caputo, Fabio Fiano, Massimiliano Farina Briamonte, Marco Sorrentino

Operating in a variety of countries, multinational companies (MNCs) experience a high variety and variability of physiological and contextual dynamics, requiring a more careful…

Technological capabilities, technology management and economic performance: the complementary roles of corporate governance and institutional environment

Weiwei Wu, Zhou Liang, Qi Zhang

Nowadays, faced with increasingly dynamic and fierce competition, knowledge is considered to be the core to survive and maintain competitive advantages in both managerial…

Organisational agility, environmental knowledge and green product success

Jose Rabal-Conesa, Daniel Jiménez-Jiménez, Micaela Martínez-Costa

The purpose of this study is to analyse the effect of organisational agility on environmental knowledge as an instrument for the successful development of eco-innovation in…

CEO cognitive trust, governmental support and marketing innovation: empirical evidence from Chinese small, medium and micro enterprises

Jiafeng Gu, Lorenzo Ardito, Angelo Natalicchio

This study aims to verify the influence of chief executive officer (CEO) cognitive trust and governmental support on marketing innovation. Additionally, it evaluated the influence…