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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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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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Current Approaches Regarding the Knowledge Management Impact on SMEs Performance

RIZEA, Ionela Carmen; PARPANDEL, Denisa Elena; RADU, … - In: Economia. Seria Management 14 (2011) 2, pp. 563-568

Managing knowledge is a critical capability for small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to master because it helps … them leverage their most critical resource. Organizational knowledge is the most salient resource at the disposal of SMEs … in terms of availability, access, and depth. Successful SMEs are those who can leverage their knowledge in an effective …

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Knowledge Management in the SME and its Relationship to Strategy, Family Orientation and Organization Learning

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

In this study, we examine the prevalence of different KM practices and the organizational determinants of KM among SMEs … by conducting a quantitative study of empirical data from nearly 500 Dutch SMEs. Our empirical results show that … knowledge is managed in a people-based approach in SMEs. SMEs are most likely to acquire knowledge by staying in touch with …

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Impact of knowledge management practices on selected industries: a structural equation modeling approach

SAINI, Ritika - In: Management & Marketing 8 (2013) 4

SMEs of three industries i.e. software, pharmaceutical and textiles in North India. The study confirmed the relationship … retention rates in the selected SMEs. …

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