Firms, in general, have an absorptive capacity that permits them to recognize the value of new, external information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial goals. This capacity results from their level of prior related knowledge and they can become creators of innovation in a context of...

Collaborative Research (CR) is usually regarded as a way to overcome several R&D barriers: the limitations of specific R&D projects resulting from lack of finance required for research infrastructure investment; the lack of expertise in industry (while it exists in academic institutes); and...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the influence of knowledge management on business performance. First, a review of the literature has been made, in order to define the most common dimensions of knowledge management and results for subsequent measurement. The dimensions of knowledge management...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to determine what type of organizational structure provides appropriate conditions for the development of organizational learning. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is a research model, which is based on research within the field, using a formative...

Purpose – Through investigating the relationship among human resource management (HRM), organizational learning (OL), organizational innovation (OI), knowledge management capability (KMC), and organizational performance (OP), the aim of this paper was to find a way of improving organizational...

Finding the optimum way to leverage the resources of a firm remains a prominent issue for organizational management. Increasingly, firms are realizing that the ultimate organizational resource is the knowledge that resides in the minds of employees and is embedded in the processes, products, and...

Business clusters are establishing for the purpose of small and middle enterprises performance together in domestic and international market. This work is contemplated about the knowledge as key success factor of business clusters in the market, and knowledge management as cluster management...

The motivation behind strengthening knowledge management at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) is to offer our Developing Member Countries (DMCs) what we call “Finance ++”: superior combinations of ADB’s own finance plus leverage of resources through partnership plus knowledge that will...

Vast amount of literature is focused on analyzing the effects of restructuring and deregulating measures in the European railway sector with results that are quite ambiguous. It’s very important that we use extended and updated data covering the more recent period and more countries of the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to gain insight into the extent that knowledge management (KM) is practiced by Islamic and conventional banks in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Design/methodology/approach – Following secondary research, structured in-depth, qualitative interviews were...