Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate how universities' learning behavior (explorative or exploitative) and network structure (weak or strong inter-organizational ties) can affect their capability to collect and diffuse knowledge, and thus to act as knowledge...

A century ago, Britain produced 50% of the world demand for cloth and iron, and 70% of the world demand for pottery and coal. Today Britain's exports have grown by 300%, but manufacturing – in total – accounts for only 13% of that. The huge increase has been in areas associated with...

The 2018 Global Innovation Index ranks Pakistan 118 out of 126 in innovation. One of the main reasons why developing countries, such as Pakistan, fail to innovate is their improvisation of astute and concurrent knowledge. This study explores the contemporary hurdles that lead to manufacturing...

This study examines the primary external control mechanism of universities (i.e. international rankings) to assess their knowledge exploration and exploitation performance. A taxonomy of indicators from the perspective of ambidexterity is presented. The most prestigious global university...

Knowledge-based communities are important but poorly understood systems for helping enterprises maintain their organizational integrity and address organizational imperatives. Based on an autopoietic theory of organization, we examine the emergence and development of knowledge-based communities...

Social networking learning is emerging in light of the European Skills Agenda and technological development. This aims to incorporate learning techniques in social networking environments to foster formal and informal learning. However, the classical customer-oriented social networks provide an...

This paper explores the opportunities for integrating Initiative Based Learning (IBL) and Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) in order to improve our understanding of learning in the context of societal transition pathways, and more specifically by focusing on solar PV as an energy transition...

This paper explores the opportunities for integrating Initiative Based Learning (IBL) and Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) in order to improve our understanding of learning in the context of societal transition pathways, and more specifically by focusing on solar PV as an energy transition...