Business Process Management Journal: Volume 25 Issue 1

Knowledge transfer and organizational performance and business process: past, present and future researches

Rosa Lombardi

The curve of knowledge transfer: a theoretical model

Pasquale De Luca, Mirian Cano Rubio

The knowledge transfer plays a key role in the firm’s capability to develop and to maintain a strategic competitive advantage over time. The capability of the firm to develop an…

Knowledge transfer in interorganizational partnerships: what do we know?

Rosileia Milagres, Ana Burcharth

The purpose of this paper is to review the literature on knowledge transfer in interorganizational partnerships. The aim is to assess the advances in this field by addressing the…

Knowledge transfer and managers turnover: impact on team performance

Raffaele Trequattrini, Maurizio Massaro, Alessandra Lardo, Benedetta Cuozzo

The paper aims to investigate the emerging issue of knowledge transfer and organisational performance. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the importance of knowledge…

Patenting or not? The dilemma of academic spin-off founders

Salvatore Ferri, Raffaele Fiorentino, Adele Parmentola, Alessandro Sapio

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of patenting on the performance of academic spin-off firms (ASOs) in the post-creation stage. Specifically, our study analyses…

The role of geographical distance on the relationship between cultural intelligence and knowledge transfer

Davor Vlajcic, Giacomo Marzi, Andrea Caputo, Marina Dabic

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the ways in which the geographical distance between headquarters and subsidiaries moderates the relationship between cultural…

Key factors that improve knowledge-intensive business processes which lead to competitive advantage

Selena Aureli, Daniele Giampaoli, Massimo Ciambotti, Nick Bontis

The purpose of this paper is to empirically test the knowledge-intensive process of creative problem-solving and its outcomes.

Knowledge transfer in open innovation: A classification framework for healthcare ecosystems

Giustina Secundo, Antonio Toma, Giovanni Schiuma, Giuseppina Passiante

Despite the abundance of research in open innovation, few contributions explore it at inter-organizational level, and particularly with a focus on healthcare ecosystem…

Institutional pressures, isomorphic changes and key agents in the transfer of knowledge of Lean in Healthcare

Antonio D’Andreamatteo, Luca Ianni, Adalberto Rangone, Francesco Paolone, Massimo Sargiacomo

Application of operations management in healthcare is particularly promising to improve the overall organisational performance, although the Italian system is behind in…

Relational capital and knowledge transfer in universities

Paola Paoloni, Francesca Maria Cesaroni, Paola Demartini

The importance of relational capital for the university has grown enormously in recent years. In fact, relational capital allows universities to promote and emphasize the…

Knowledge transfer within relationship portfolios: the creation of knowledge recombination rents

Massimiliano Matteo Pellegrini, Andrea Caputo, Lee Matthews

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the underdeveloped conceptualization of a particular type network rents, defined as knowledge recombination rents, related to the…

Knowledge transfer in a start-up craft brewery

Andrea Cardoni, John Dumay, Matteo Palmaccio, Domenico Celenza

The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of the entrepreneur in the knowledge transfer (KT) process of a start-up enterprise and the ways that role should change during…