Laboratory studies have shown that decision-making groups tend to focus on common information at the expense of unique information. In the current study, high level business executives completed a personnel selection task. Access to information about the candidates was not controlled as in a...

The knowledge base of an organization is considered its intellectual capital, and is increasingly emphasized as a vital source of competitive advantage. Engineering, managing, and leveraging knowledge (individual-, group-, and organizational-level knowledge) are becoming strategic activities in...

The organization that wants to build competitive advantages has to create and leverage its capabilities. One of the central bases for achieving competitive advantage is the organizational capability to create new knowledge and transfer it across various levels and parts of the organization....

This article provides empirical tests of the hypothesis of ‘optimal cognitive distance’, proposed by Nooteboom (1999, 2000), in two distinct empirical settings. Variety of cognition, needed for learning, has two dimensions: the number of agents with different cognition, and differences in...

Encouraging individuals to learn and understand the need for change has been the underlying logic for many suggested theories and models in organizational change management. In reality however, not all individuals have the same basis for accepting change. This paper attempts to study the...

Objective – This paper investigates the influence of emotional intelligence on job performance among accounting students undertaking Student Internships.Methodology/Technique – This study adopts a quantitative research approach, using questionnaires to collect data. The study examines...

Emotional Intelligence is a psychological construct embodying the competencies of emotional management, emotional perception, self-awareness, relationships management, stress management and empathy. This construct involves multiple intelligences, including both interpersonal and intrapersonal...

Many aspects in the area of designing platforms for intra-organizational innovation communities are not well understood. In this article, we examine the impact of technologically induced psychological factors on knowledge exchange in such communities. Using two experimental pretest-posttest...