source for gaining knowledge about standards. Domestic SMEs shape their decisions to hire consultants predominantly because … transfer of knowledge about standards are influenced by SMEs' experience in business and negative perception of the benefits of …' choice of a dominant source for acquiring information and the knowledge about standards. The questionnaire survey research …

industrial to a digital economy. This paper explores how these innovations affect the way knowledge is created and used in a … which blockchains ‘industrialise trust’ and scale ‘common knowledge’. These institutional technologies are ‘hyperobjects … 2019), as knowledge production with low agency costs (Potts et al. 2023). Generative AI platforms combine pooled specialist …

Recent studies of knowledge production have increasingly recognized the role of codified knowledge in the operation of … social organizations. Much of the knowledge resident in organizations exists as tacit knowledge, that is, as knowledge that … goes unrecorded. Typically such knowledge is carried as the personal expertise of employees, passed along to other …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the scope for international private standards to play a role in reducing … the risk distribution. Certification also correlates negatively with risk-reduction for technologically advanced firms, as …

knowledge is managed in a people-based approach in SMEs. SMEs are most likely to acquire knowledge by staying in touch with …In this study, we examine the prevalence of different KM practices and the organizational determinants of KM among SMEs … by conducting a quantitative study of empirical data from nearly 500 Dutch SMEs. Our empirical results show that …

Organizations need to build and use knowledge to remain viable in the face of competition and change. Due to the limits … of the required knowledge accessible in explicit and readily retrievable formats. Much of the knowledge an organization … needs is held tacitly by members of the organization. This "personal knowledge" is normally inaccessible to other members …

enabled by standards that in turn have facilitated the interoperability of firm-level production algorithms. We conclude by …

accessing useful knowledge by adopting, producing, and diffusing new ideas. Combining location information for the universe of 3 … arose through agglomeration economies and localized knowledge spillovers. To support this claim, we provide evidence … the same society had higher similarity in patenting, suggesting that social networks facilitated spatial knowledge …