In order to mitigate the risks of losing key personnel and their innate tacit knowledge resources, this paper explored a framework for reducing knowledge loss in South African public sector enterprises (PSEs) through the integration of knowledge management (KM) and human resource management...

This paper provides evidence from a natural experiment on the importance of tacit knowledge that workers have about firms' intangible assets for competition in product and labor markets. First, evidence is presented on product and labor market imperfections across firms in manufacturing and...

This paper provides evidence from a natural experiment on the importance of workers' tacit knowledge about firms' intangible assets for competition in product and labor markets. Evidence is presented on product and labor market imperfections across manufacturing and services firms in the...

The research evaluated the levels to which subsistence yam farmers operationalized indigenous knowledge management during the COVID-19 period. A descriptive survey approach was employed. The research comprised 120 randomly selected peasant yam farmers. Means, t-test, standard deviation, and...

The banking industry is currently striving to adapt to the rapid development of technology, creating competitive advantages through knowledge management activities. This study investigates the impact of rewards on knowledge sharing behavior and its subsequent influence on individual work...

Knowledge brokers play a crucial role in open innovation. We use exponential random graph models and qualitative analysis of semi-structured interview data to contrast knowledge brokerage in three open innovation partnerships. Our analysis considers both tacit and explicit knowledge exchanges....

The exchange of tacit knowledge is made easier by socialization, which drives innovation by encouraging creativity, learning, and the ability to collaborate to solve problems in research and development (R&D) organizations. This study was conducted to discover how socialization and sharing of...

The permanent implementation of the change in working methods, e.g., working in the virtual space, is problematic for some employees and, as a result, for management leaders. To explore this issue deeper, this study assumes that mindset type: technological vs. non-technological, may influence...

In this paper, the authors address a new approach to three organizational, functional cultures: knowledge culture, learning culture, and collaboration culture, named together the KLC cultures. Authors claim that the KLC approach in knowledge-driven organizations must be designed and nourished to...

Awareness structures by Fagin and Halpern (1988) (FH) feature a syntactic awareness correspondence and accessibility relations modeling implicit knowledge. They are a flexible model of unawareness, and best interpreted from a outside modeler's perspective. Unawareness structures by Heifetz,...

There is a lack of study examining the relationship between high-involvement HRM practice and innovation capability as mediated by knowledge sharing. So, the motivation of this paper is to study and explore potential intermediating roles of explicit and tacit knowledge sharing in linking...

Knowledge, especially tacit knowledge (TK), has become the most strategic resource for firms' innovativeness and competitiveness. However, most agricultural firms struggle to effectively manage TK to improve their innovation capability. This study aims to examine the relationships between firms'...

The article is devoted to the study of the influence of social capital on the ability of countries to produce innovations. The analysis of the achievements of economic science in the field of studying social capital and innovation revealed the ambiguity of views on the relationship between these...

Tacit knowledge utilization and transfer in organizations are critical for maintaining a competitive advantage and for successful cooperation, in the case of educational institutions. Acquiring, extracting and transferring tacit knowledge are difficult tasks, due to the complexity of the tacit...

The Making of Family-Owned Chinese Businesses in Malaysia -- From China to Rooting Innovation in Malaysia -- Reviewing Chinese Businesses in Southeast Asia and Key Concepts of Family-Owned Chinese Businesses in Malaysia -- Constructing a Phenomenological Framework in Family-Owned Chinese...

Im Umgang mit den Herausforderungen der fortschreitenden Digitalisierung von Produkten und Dienstleistungen - insbesondere der Beherrschung von Komplexität und der Handhabung von Unwägbarkeiten - wird das Erfahrungswissen der Beschäftigten als sehr bedeutsame immaterielle Ressource...

Im Umgang mit den Herausforderungen der fortschreitenden Digitali- sierung von Produkten und Dienstleistungen - insbesondere der Beherrschung von Komplexität und der Handhabung von Unwägbarkeiten - wird das Erfahrungswissen der Beschäftigten als sehr bedeutsame immaterielle Ressource...

Higher education institutions (HEIs) create, disseminate, and share knowledge through relationships involving people, processes, and technologies. Tacit knowledge is difficult to formalize and depends on social context. Its sharing is influenced by individual, organizational, and structural...

Background: Logistics problems involve a large number of complexities, which makes the development of models challenging. While computer simulation models are developed for addressing complexities, it is essential to ensure that the necessary operational behaviours are captured, and that the...

This study experimentally examines whether task-specific experience acquired by managers influences their reliance on performance-based contracts to motivate employees in a setting in which the employee’s task can spark intrinsic motivation. Building on experiential learning theory, we predict...

Management of knowledge assets is one of the greatest challenges of information-based economies. New technologies almost always require an investment of multiple agents in knowledge assets. That is, a collaboration of actors such as scientists, entrepreneurs, firms, and universities is crucial....