Knowledge has become one of the critical driving forces for business success. Organizations are becoming more knowledge intensive and the needs for leveraging the value of knowledge are increasing. Organizations need to be cognizant and aware of the factors that will influence the success of a...

Apart from the fact that a traditional approach that emphasizes capturing knowledge in databases, manuals, books, and reports and then sharing it in hard form has become dated, there is no clear-cut understanding or widely shared definitions of knowledge,even though there has been a deluge of...

Social phenomena often involve long-term changes, but most organizational studies focusing on sector comparison have not illuminated the decisive role that time plays. I tested "sector imprinting," the effect that occurs when an individual who has adapted to the norms of one sector, moves to...

Cette contribution présente des travaux sur l'exploitation des techniques d'ingénierie des connaissances en vue de l'élaboration d'une démarche pour le transfert des savoir-faire métiers au sein de l'Entreprise. Ce transfert se base sur la conception des dispositifs de partage et...

Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) have been developed in Engineering Designactivities in order to improve the productivity of these activities. Nevertheless it is still verydifficult to identify the impact of such Systems on the Engineering Design Performance.In this paper our goal is to...

This paper looks at what happens when Communities of Practice are used as a tool for Knowledge Management. The original concept of a Community of Practice appears to have very little in common with the knowledge sharing communities found in Knowledge Management, which are based on a revised view...

This paper explores the links between Knowledge Management and new community-based models of the organization from both a theoretical and an empirical perspective. From a theoretical standpoint, we look at Communities of Practice (CoPs) and Knowledge Management (KM) and explore the links between...

A great deal of studies has focused on the role played by geographical location on the emergence and the building of localised learning capacities (Maskell, Malmberg, 1999). In this perspective, empirical studies have demonstrated that innovation dynamics of clusters results from the quality of...

Geographical clusters are nowadays considered as a relevant factor for competitiveness, thanks to their innovative capabilities. In this context, public policies based on this approach are flourishing all over the world. The French “Pole of competitiveness” (PoC) policy (Politique des pôles...