Purpose – This study aims to examine the relationships among knowledge stock, ambidextrous learning, and firm performance while considering the moderating effect of firm size. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses R&D scoreboard database to produce a sample of 312 firms which operate...

Knowledge management is a rapidly growing, and rapidly changing discipline. While the link between knowledge assets and competitive advantage has been accepted for some time, it is not obvious how this translates into the techniques and software tools that are labelled as knowledge management...

The literature contains an ongoing debate concerning virtual or boundaryless organisations. This article suggests that virtual/boundaryless organisations are a logical continuation of the development of industrial organisation. We can see three important recurrent management characteristics...

Chester Barnard’s 1938 book The Functions of the Executive is re‐examined in the context of the emerging knowledge‐based dynamic theory of the firm. The key constructs and the underlying principles for Barnard’s functions of the “executive” and organization as a cooperative...

Building on the complexities of organizational knowledge creation the paper explores the alignment of knowledge management practices with the epistemological beliefs of individuals or groups in organizations. A pan‐European research project investigated individual’s philosophy about truth,...

During the past two decades a variety of reforms and projects under the mantle of public‐sector modernization were developed in order to achieve efficiency, effectiveness, economy and quality in service delivery. Despite the overwhelming consensus that public organizations must transform there...

Senior managers have shown an increasing interest in understanding and encouraging knowledge‐sharing behaviour in their organizations. However, very few empirical studies have examined senior managers’ perceptions of knowledge‐sharing behaviour. This study used Ajzen's theory of planned...

The division between academic knowledge and its relevance for practice is an enduring problem across many fields. Nowhere is this division more pronounced, and resolution of its negative features more required, than in academic management research and its relationship to management practice, for...