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Knowledge Management as a Strategic Tool to Foster Innovativeness of SMEs

Zhou, Zhou, H.; Uhlaner, Uhlaner, L.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2009

medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Our empricial results indicate that external acquisition practices play a key role in … fostering SMEs’ innovativeness while internal sharing practices do not appear to have a significant influence. External … opportunities which in turn may lead to new or improved products or processes. We suggest that owners/entrepreneurs of SMEs and …

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Knowledge Management as a Strategic Tool to Foster Innovativeness of SMEs

Zhou, H.; Uhlaner, L.M. - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), ERIM … - 2009

medium sized enterprises (SMEs). Our empricial results indicate that external acquisition practices play a key role in … opportunities which in turn may lead to new or improved products or processes. We suggest that owners/entrepreneurs of SMEs and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042246

Knowledge management, e-business adoption, and succession of international trading

Tangkittipaporn, Jiraporn - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 5 (2013) 2, pp. 193-206

This study investigated factors that impacted the succession of international trading. By testing the hypotheses on a sample of 169 foreign-owned and Thai owned exporting firms, the results revealed that, among the three components of knowledge management, only knowledge acquisition had a...

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A framework to evaluate the likelihood of knowledge retention when college students obtain information from the internet

Saleh, Zakaria I. - In: International Journal of Education Economics and Development 2 (2011) 4, pp. 363-379

With the generalised use of information technologies (IT), students gather and use information from the World Wide Web and use it to complete their schoolwork and other related tasks. However, there are no indications that any of the obtained information is actually being critically thought...

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Knowledge Acquisitions in Slovenian Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises

Omerzel, Doris Gomezelj - In: Management 6 (2011) 4, pp. 381-398

The aim of the article is to illustrate the methods of acquiring knowledge in enterprises. Knowledge will be defined in terms of individuals and of the organization. Different authors define knowledge in different ways and they also recommend various methods for the effective acquisition of...

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The Relationship between Knowledge Management Practices and Technological Innovation: A Conceptual Framework

Ng, Yin-Kuan; Lee, Voon-Hsien; Foo, Alex Tun-Lee; Gan, … - In: International Journal of Management, Knowledge and Learning 1 (2012) 1, pp. 71-89

This research paper aims to establish a conceptual framework that links the different dimensions of knowledge management, namely knowledge acquisition, knowledge dissemination and knowledge application, with innovation performance, particularly focusing on technological innovation (i. e. product...

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Building Capability through Cognitive Apprenticeship: The Singapore Armed Forces Competency-Based Learning Project

Quek, Pek Noi - In: Journal of Information & Knowledge Management (JIKM) 05 (2006) 03, pp. 173-182

The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) Competency-Based Learning (CBL) Project is a cognitive apprenticeship designed by the Learning Development Project Office in SAFTI Military Institute, Singapore to assist SAF in establishing long-term indigenous capability in the CBL methodology to facilitate...

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Economic intelligence and knowledge management: two complementary facets of the same issue

Said, Antoine; Bretones, Daniel - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

This paper aims at analysing the differences between two major research fields: Economic intelligence and knowledge management. A framework showing the complementarities between those two fields is set up. After a literature review on those two fields we explain that economic intelligence and...

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ICT and ERP applications challenges in romanian SMEs

Ana, Grama; Doina, Fotache - In: Analele Stiintifice ale Universitatii "Alexandru Ioan … 54 (2007) November, pp. 22-28

, the SME "Cinderella" has been increasingly attracting the attention of SMEs specialists and agencies because, after … technologies can function as drivers to increase SMEs' efficiency and productivity in the current global economy. The grand players … in the IT industry have been increasingly considered SMEs. "Heavy" names such as IBM, Oracle, Compaq or Microsoft are …

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AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF SMALL AND MEDIUMSIZED ENTERPRISE INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES (ICTS)

Papastathopoulos, Avraam; Anastassopoulos, George; … - In: Global Journal of Business Research 4 (2010) 1, pp. 115-128

The purpose of this study is to gather information about the use of ICTs among SMEs by firm size and industry sector … empirical analysis is based on a joint methodology of fully structured questionnaires and personal interviews in 54 Greek SMEs …

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