Petter Gottschalk, Stefan Holgersson and Jan Terje Karlsen
The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize detectives in police investigations as knowledge workers.
Abstract
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to conceptualize detectives in police investigations as knowledge workers.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper is based on a literature review covering knowledge organizations, police organizations, police investigations, and detectives as knowledge workers.
Findings
The paper finds that the changing role of the detective as a resource influences investigation performance in solving complex and organized crime.
Research limitations/implications
This exploratory research provides no final conclusions.
Practical implications
Leadership in police investigations needs to focus on knowledge management among detectives rather than information collection in each criminal case.
Originality/value
Until this paper, the secretive nature of the detective world has been unexplored by manpower researchers.
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José Arias-Pérez, Carlos Alberto Frantz dos Santos, Juan Velez-Ocampo and Aurora Carneiro Zen
The objective of this article is to analyze the mediating role of innovation capability—both radical and incremental—between technological turbulence and digital innovation…
Abstract
Purpose
The objective of this article is to analyze the mediating role of innovation capability—both radical and incremental—between technological turbulence and digital innovation ecosystem performance, considering the impact of cross-organizational knowledge sabotage. Despite the enthusiasm surrounding digitization, the high failure rate (80%) of digital transformation projects has received limited attention. This alarming statistic indicates a potential rise in opportunistic behaviors within organizations. We hypothesize that employees seeking to reduce the risk of being displaced by digital technologies, may not only hide knowledge, as previously observed, but also engage in knowledge sabotage by disseminating inaccurate information during the co-creation of digital innovations within the digital innovation ecosystem.
Design/methodology/approach
The study employed structural equation modeling to examine moderated mediation using survey data collected from 148 firms, mainly from sectors of high to medium levels of digital intensity.
Findings
The most significant finding indicates that cross-organizational knowledge sabotage considerably reduces the only mediating effect, namely that of incremental innovation capability.
Originality/value
Our study presents a novel perspective by investigating the phenomenon of cross-organizational knowledge sabotage. Unlike prior research, which primarily identified the existence of knowledge hiding, our findings suggest that employees are not only willing to withhold information but also to disseminate inaccurate information to external partners. Consequently, our research extends the boundaries of the existing knowledge field by demonstrating that cross-organizational knowledge sabotage has repercussions that extend beyond intra-organizational impacts, as previously recognized. It also adversely affects the outcomes of collaborative work within the digital innovation ecosystem.
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Jos Benders and Torbjörn Stjernberg
This paper aims to document the development of cellular manufacturing at Scania-Vabis, thereby contributing to the history of an organizational idea.
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to document the development of cellular manufacturing at Scania-Vabis, thereby contributing to the history of an organizational idea.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors draw on published sources and interviews to reconstruct the development of cellular manufacturing at Scania-Vabis and its traces.
Findings
Cellular manufacturing was applied and further developed at Scania-Vabis in the 1940s and 1950s. Nevertheless, it seems to have fallen into oblivion. The key idea resurfaced in the 1970s.
Practical implications
The authors argue that such “proven technology” should be considered a classical insight in organization design rather than old and thus outdated.
Originality/value
The authors demonstrate that this form of flow-based organizing is much older than commonly assumed and point to barriers in accumulating knowledge on organizing.