Our case study starts by describing the Sermo business model, the knowledge application, company financials, and …

For knowledge-intensive, information-sensitive organizations, we suggest two orthogonal constructs, namely the … perceived levels of knowledge sharing and knowledge protection, influence the perceived levels of organizational performance, to … 10,000 employees, we observe that a knowledge-worker's role criticality directly and indirectly shapes perceived …

knowledge in hierarchies of varying size and depth. We then evaluate additional effects of a knowledge management (KM) system … that collects and shares knowledge from expert individuals in an organization. We find that in the absence of personnel …, representative of a top-down knowledge management strategy, reduces the accuracy of average individual knowledge levels compared to …

Managing knowledge of the aging workforce is a major challenge, particularly to companies in the aerospace industry …. Whenever an expert or manager retires or takes up a new position, there is the risk of losing his or her knowledge about what … it really needs to fill his/her position. Apart from the risk of losing expert knowledge about administrative or …

The Brundtland Report (1987) is the first formalization of the relationship between development and environment … greatest impact on the environment. The efficient allocation of resources has always been a goal of the science of economics … assumed by the social and environmental sustainability of development. Companies, in fact, interact with the environment …

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 …

This study presents a conceptual model of when and how knowledge demonstrability and superordinate social identity … impact the likelihood that organizations capitalize on their knowledge resources. To test the model, an experimental … methodology was used in which a member transfers from one group to another, transmitting knowledge in the form of a production …

: first, it considers redundancy in terms of organizational knowledge, and not in terms of personnel or financial assets or … profitability and that knowledge redundancy can (limitedly) compensate the effects of environmental shocks but not of opportunism …. Moreover, it demonstrates that, as agents exchange (and accumulate) more information, knowledge efficiency declines, but less …

We seek to develop eight theoretical propositions relating use of a knowledge management system to improved performance … values, (3) inter-employee trust, and (4) enabling knowledge technologies cumulatively motivate employees to believe the … benefits to knowledge exchange behaviors exceed the costs. Together, these four elements represent an organization …

, the study evaluates additional effects of a knowledge management system that collects and shares knowledge from expert … individuals in an organization. This study finds that in the absence of personnel turnover, a knowledge strategy of high … exploitation and low exploration for a multi-tiered hierarchical organization reduces the veracity of average individual knowledge …