We integrate research on creativity and innovation at the individual, group and interfirm-network levels to develop a level-agnostic definition of a knowledge network. We identify properties of these networks that appear to be common across levels, and show how these properties influence...

Purpose: Several researchersstressed that tacit knowledge is almost impossible to articulate, codify and thus to transfer. Based on the notion that tacit knowledge could be acknowledged, acquired and transferred through employees’ behavioral patterns, this paper seeks to associate emotions –...

Business globalization pressures and rapid technology advances increase the need for firms to continuously change, improve and adapt to changing business environment. Superior business performance is increasingly a function of firm’s ability to develop and implement unique and valuable...

By including the effects of learning over time on both the production of components and their integration into complete products, we develop an engineering-based model of outsourcing. This model provides an alternative explanation for much of what other outsourcing theories predict, as well as...

The importance that managers attribute to budgets is an indicator of their preferences about budgets and, as a consequence, of their demand for budgets. If organizations know the process by which managers attribute importance to budgets, they can act on the antecedents of importance and hence,...

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 knowledge is managed in a people-based approach in SMEs. SMEs...

This study examines the relationship between knowledge management (KM) (in terms of external acquisition and internal sharing) and innovation behavior. The concept of absorptive capacity and assumptions from the dynamic capabilities view underlie the proposed framework and hypotheses. The...

Industrial and service companies increasingly achieve their competitive advantages on the basis of strategic partnerships. The general assertion in the article is that the quality and effectiveness of implemented changes is higher in the cases when such modifications are being implemented...

I present a computational study to examine a common assumption in organizational learning, that an exploitative knowledge acquisition strategy will accumulate less diverse knowledge than an explorative strategy. I show that this is not always the case: When taking into account factors that...

The present paper proposes a new way of thinking regarding the relation between innovation and knowledge using a Physics-borrowed model, trying to prove whether knowledge resources can "flow" (be percolated) in a network or a grid, in order to be transformed in technological innovation. In the...