This paper describes the information flows in the supply chain, and identifies knowledge and expertise as richer more capable entities for its management than data or information. It briefly explores how the structure of the automotive supply chain is changing due to the pressures of increasing...

Purpose – The purpose of this article is to identify the critical success factors (CSFs) of knowledge management (KM) adoption in the supply chain (SC) using the fuzzy decision-making trial and evaluation laboratory (DEMATEL) method through an empirical case study. Design/methodology/approach...

Supply chain management has profited tremendously from the advance of Web technologies during the last decade. New applications as well as optimized existing applications have used the Web as the medium to provide efficient and effective services to internal and external company users. The new...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to explore the investment of supply chain technology-to-performance path relationship through the lens of the resource-based view (RBV) as illuminated by the organizational learning literature. Design/methodology/approach – This study surveyed top-level...

Abstract Vor dem Hintergrund der veränderten Anforderungen an die Beratungsbranche wird das Verhältnis von Netzwerken und Beratung diskutiert. Dabei geht es sowohl um ein erwachendes Interesse an „Netzwerkberatung” als möglichem neu zu entdeckendem Geschäftsfeld als auch um die Bildung...

Abstract Der Beitrag stellt die Ergebnisse der zweiten Phase eines Forschungsprojektes dar, das den Zusammenhang zwischen Innovationserfolg und direkten sowie repräsentativen Partizipationsmöglichkeiten von Beschäftigten in Unternehmen untersucht. In der Basiserhebung (n=529) wurde der...

Purpose – To better understand mobile work and the lives of mobile workers from the employee perspective and to identify aspects of mobile work that are working well or could be improved. Design/methodology/approach – A survey of 557 respondents involved in mobile work, including managers...

The paper introduces bibliometrics to the research area of knowledge organization – more precisely in relation to construction and maintenance of thesauri. As such, the paper reviews related work that has been of inspiration for the assembly of a semi‐automatic, bibliometric‐based,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a study of knowledge management understanding and usage in small and medium knowledge‐intensive enterprises. Design/methodology/approach – The study has taken an interpretitivist approach, using two knowledge‐intensive South Yorkshire...

Purpose – To propose a comprehensive and semi‐automatic method for constructing or updating knowledge organization tools such as thesauri. Design/methodology/approach – The paper proposes a comprehensive methodology for thesaurus construction and maintenance combining shallow NLP with a...