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on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy |
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Issue of 2009‒03‒28
six papers chosen by Laura Stefanescu European Research Centre of Managerial Studies in Business Administration |
| By: | Mahnke, Volker (Department of Informatics, Copenhagen Business School); Venzin, Markus (Department of Informatics, Copenhagen Business School) |
| Abstract: | na |
| Keywords: | na |
| JEL: | H00 |
| Date: | 2009–03–18 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:cbsinf:2003_007&r=knm |
| By: | Kühn Pedersen, Mogens (Department of Informatics, Copenhagen Business School); Holm Larsen, Michael (Department of Informatics, Copenhagen Business School) |
| Abstract: | In globalizing competitive markets knowledge exchange between business organizations requires incentive mechanisms to ensure tactical purposes while strategic purposes are subject to joint organization and other forms of contractual obligations. Where property of knowledge (e.g. patents and copyrights) and contractbased knowledge exchange do not obtain network effectiveness because of prohibitive transaction costs in reducing uncertainty, we suggest a robust model for peer produced knowledge within a distributed setting. The peer produced knowledge exchange model relies upon a double loop knowledge conversion with symmetric incentives in a network since the production of actor specific knowledge makes any knowledge appropriation by use of property rights by the actors irrelevant. Without property rights in knowledge the actor network generates opportunity for incentive symmetry over a period of time. The model merges specific knowledge with knowledge from other actors into a decision support system specific for each actor in the network in recognition of actor role differences. The article suggests a set of 9 static and 5 dynamic propositions for the model to maintain symmetric incentives between different actor networks. The model is proposed for business networks. |
| Keywords: | na |
| JEL: | H00 |
| Date: | 2009–03–18 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:cbsinf:2002_013&r=knm |
| By: | Røhme, Thomas (Department of Informatics, Copenhagen Business School) |
| Abstract: | na |
| Keywords: | na |
| JEL: | H00 |
| Date: | 2009–03–18 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hhs:cbsinf:2003_008&r=knm |
| By: | Griffith, Gary R.; Mullen, John D. |
| Abstract: | Continuous Improvement and Innovation (CI&I) is both a management process and a management strategy. In this paper, we describe how CI&I principles have been used in a strategic planning context by the research economist group in the NSW Department of Primary Industries. We provide some background on the development of CI&I as a management concept and describe the steps involved in implementing the CI&I process in this context. We conclude with some observations about the usefulness of this approach for strategic planning in a government department. |
| Keywords: | Continuous improvement and innovation, process, strategic planning, action design., |
| Date: | 2009 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ags:aare09:47650&r=knm |
| By: | Carlos Martin-Rios |
| Abstract: | This paper focuses on individual responses to changes in organizational control systems in knowledge work organizations. Using qualitative data from top-performing organizational units in seven companies, I examined how individuals make sense of the changes in the control system in order to use them successfully. The findings show that individuals vary in the degree to which they accept novel control systems and that organizations that remain unaware of people’s dilemma face chances of failure despite the notion that those systems are suitable to knowledge work. Further, it calls attention to the unique ways individuals with positive resources and emotions actively construct or make sense of the complexities related to changes in the control system in order to use them successfully. |
| Keywords: | Organizational control, Knowledge-work, Positive organization behavior, Sensemaking, Innovation |
| Date: | 2009–02 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cte:campwp:campwp09_02&r=knm |
| By: | Mohamed Ayadi (ISG - Institut supérieur de gestion - Université de Tunis, Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales de Tunis - Université de Tunis, GATE - Groupe d'analyse et de théorie économique - CNRS : UMR5824 - Université Lumière - Lyon II - Ecole Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines); Mohieddine Rahmouni (GREThA - Groupe de Recherche en Economie Théorique et Appliquée - CNRS : UMR5113 - Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV); Murat Yildizoglu (GREQAM - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille - Université de la Méditerranée - Aix-Marseille II - Université Paul Cézanne - Aix-Marseille III - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales - CNRS : UMR6579) |
| Abstract: | This article is dedicated to the analysis of the first innovation survey of the Tunisian firms. Starting from basic mechanisms of innovation processes, we test a set of conjectures adapted to a developing country like Tunisia. We analyze the motivation of firms to innovate and the determinants of product and process innovations. Our results show that firms must benefit from external knowledge sources in order to exhibit significant innovation propensities. The large size is also a necessary (but not sufficient) condition for innovation. We also notice that the participation of the State plays an harmful role. |
| Keywords: | Innovation; development; absorptive capacity; learning |
| Date: | 2009–03–16 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:wpaper:halshs-00368560_v1&r=knm |