Purpose – Virtual communities of practice (VCoP) are seen as effective means to facilitate knowledge building among professionals. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationships between system quality, attitude toward incentives and knowledge sharing in a VCoP. Additionally,...

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...

The successful writing and management of collaborative research projects requires a common understanding of the project's objectives by all partners involved. It also requires a clear vision of the project inputs and outputs. This paper presents two case-studies where concept maps were used as a...

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...