Purpose The purpose of this paper is to build a research model that examines the impact of leadership on trust, knowledge management and organizational performance. Design/methodology/approach An instrument containing six constructs (leadership: leading organization; leadership: leading people;...

Purpose – Knowledge management capabilities have proven to be key success factors for organizations within our increasingly information-based economy. Although knowledge management literature has a rich history, less is known about how an organization’s learning culture affects outcomes...

Purpose – The intangible assets are important today as knowledge and innovation are the key drivers to long‐term business competitiveness. In other words, this competitiveness requires the productive use of the intangible assets. Thus, measuring productivity should underline their importance...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the social responsibility of universities and other higher education institutes in meeting the challenges faced by biotechnology and human resource development. Design/methodology/approach – The challenges faced by biotechnology are...

A conceptual framework originating within the Operations Research literature is presented as a means of informing researchers about how they might better understand and exploit knowledge management/sharing/transfer in business-to-business knowledge networks. Preliminary analysis of a recent...

Organisational cultural factors are key to knowledge management effectiveness. Existing research on cultural factors that facilitate knowledge management has been fragmented. This paper proposes a theoretical framework that integrates existing research on cultural factors that influence...

Through interviews with representatives from GE Healthcare, we determined that a central problem of their current knowledge management system is users' inability to effectively retrieve the documents they need in order to carry out the everyday business activities of the corporation. We propose...

Ce papier présente une recherche en cours sur l'exploitation des techniques de gestion et d'ingénierie des connaissances en vue de l'élaboration d'une démarche stratégique pour le transfert des savoir-faire métiers. Ce transfert se base sur la conception des dispositifs de partage et...

La gestion explicite des savoirs et savoir-faire occupe une place de plus en plus importante dans les organisations. La construction de mémoires d'entreprise dans un but de préservation et de partage est devenu une pratique assez courante. Cependant, on oublie trop souvent que l'efficacité de...

La politique des pôles de compétitivité s'inscrit dans un cadre européen plus général de soutien à la compétitivité. Ce sont par nature des dispositifs de mise en réseau de compétences et de connaissances régionales dans une optique de compétitivité internationale. Dans ce papier,...