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This study proposed a look at the importance and challenges of knowledge management in times of great change. In order … to understand the information phenomena of interest, impacts on knowledge workers and knowledge documents in times of … attention to how the changes were perceived by the knowledge workers by interviewing those that were impacted by the changes …
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Collective knowledge, consisting of tacit group-embedded knowledge, is a key element of organizational capabilities …. This study undertakes a multiple-case study of the transfer of collective knowledge, guided by a set of tentative … collective knowledge, we direct our attention to the source and recipient communities. We identify two sets of strategic choices …
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This article examines business practices focused on knowledge and innovation and the relationship of these business … knowledge and innovation-related business practices. Our analysis reveals that firms in each country can be categorised based on … their focus on knowledge and innovation as: (1) high focus; (2) moderate focus; or (3) low focus. Results indicate that …
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practitioner. What is needed is a set of principles that limit and define the role of the tacit knowledge of the model builders. In …
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One recent development in the organizational economics approach to strategy management concerns the integration of the organizational capabilities view and the transaction costs theory. My dissertation takes on this task focusing on transaction costs economics, dynamic capabilities, and temporal...
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An assessment undertaken by the Clothing and Textile Centre in the Western Cape (Clotex) during 2002 revealed that there was a great need for quality in the clothing sector. Furthermore, the research undertaken by the Department of Science and Technology (2004) supports and recommends the...
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innovation processes. Yet, pharmaceutical firms must innovate to compete. Outsourcing knowledge intensive activities to knowledge … and scope, knowledge sharing, and learning. This paper claims that (a) accumulated core competencies of multinational …
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focus is on the ways in which these companies create knowledge, the ways in which knowledge flows both within and outside of … the company, and generally, the ways in which knowledge can evolve from an abstract scientific concept into an application … that benefits society. The development of a more nuanced understanding of organizational knowledge and organizational …
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European producers of fresh vegetables are under pressure to improve their performance in order toincrease competitiveness. Innovative products and processes and competitive advantage can be gained by the creationand use of unique resources as an outcome of cooperation between producers and...
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