nep-knm New Economics Papers
on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy
Issue of 2022‒12‒12
four papers chosen by
Laura Nicola-Gavrila
Centrul European de Studii Manageriale în Administrarea Afacerilor

  1. Impact of IT integration on the firm’s knowledge absorption and desorption By Jessica Braojos; Jose Benitez; Javier Llorens; Laura Ruiz
  2. Relationship Between Knowledge Management with Cost Leadership and Differentiation Strategies in Sumbawa Weaving SMEs: The Moderating Role of Organizational Design By Probosari, Ninik; Kusmayadi, Andi; Wijayani, Ari; Ardhanariswari, Kartika Ayu; Siregar, Ilham Ramadan Pandu Setia Negara; Viyani, Ari Okta
  3. Household Debt, Knowledge Capital Accumulation and Macrodynamic Performance By Laura Barbosa de Carvalho; Gilberto Tadeu Lima, Gustavo Pereira Serra
  4. From digital traces to competences By Kamel-Eddin Bemmami; Lilia Gzara; Jean-Luc Maire; Christophe Courtin

  1. By: Jessica Braojos (IQS School of Management. Universitat Ramon Llull - IQS - Instituto Químico de Sarrià, University of Granada [Granada]); Jose Benitez (ESC [Rennes] - ESC Rennes School of Business); Javier Llorens (University of Granada [Granada]); Laura Ruiz (University of Granada [Granada], ESC [Rennes] - ESC Rennes School of Business)
    Abstract: This paper examines the impact of the integration of IT systems with other organizations (IT integration) on the knowledge absorption and desorption of the focal firm. We ran an empirical study in Spain and found that IT integration enables the firm to absorb and desorb knowledge with other organizations, which in turn improves firm performance. This research provides two key contributions to the IS discipline: 1) We introduce the concept of desorptive capacity in the IS research and provide a scale for its measure, 2) we provide a theory of IT integration impact on the firm's knowledge absorption and desorption.
    Keywords: IT integration capability,Knowledge absorptive capacity,Knowledge desorptive capacity,IT-enabled organizational capabilities,Business value of IT
    Date: 2020–11
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03160729&r=knm
  2. By: Probosari, Ninik; Kusmayadi, Andi; Wijayani, Ari; Ardhanariswari, Kartika Ayu; Siregar, Ilham Ramadan Pandu Setia Negara; Viyani, Ari Okta
    Abstract: Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are the main drivers of the economy in developing countries, one of which is Indonesia. Several SMEs still need to be developed in Indonesia, especially for the 3T region (lagging, leading, and outermost). Sumbawa is one of these areas. The majority of SMEs in the Sumbawa area are weaving SMEs. Weaving SMEs in this region still have problems in terms of SME competitiveness, innovation, and SME creativity. Therefore, they have not been able to compete with SMEs outside the 3T area. Thus, the importance of competitive strategy and knowledge management can encourage the management of information into knowledge that can be used for strategic decision-making, especially the competitive strategy of SMEs. This study will examine the application of knowledge management to SMEs in Sumbawa and whether the applied knowledge management can encourage the creation of a competitive strategy for Sumbawa SMEs. The research was conducted by census/saturated sampling to produce accurate results. The results show that the application of knowledge management in Sumbawa SMEs is proven to influence SMEs' competitive strategy. The study also contributes to new research on the role of organizational design that can affect knowledge management's influence on competitive strategy.
    Date: 2022–09–19
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:osf:osfxxx:k98gm&r=knm
  3. By: Laura Barbosa de Carvalho; Gilberto Tadeu Lima, Gustavo Pereira Serra
    Abstract: Motivated to some extent by the empirical significance of student loans in the U.S., this paper incorporates knowledge capital formation by working households financed through debt to a demand-led dynamic model of physical and knowledge capital utilization and output growth. Average labor productivity varies positively with the average knowledge capital across the labor force. A rise in labor productivity resulting from knowledge capital accumulation is fully passed on to the real wage, so that the wage share remains constant. In the unique long-run equilibrium, which is stable, an exogenous rise in the wage share raises the rates of physical capital utilization and output growth but has an ambiguous effect on the rate of employment (which also measures the rate of knowledge capital utilization). The long-run equilibrium also features the following interrelated results: the output growth rate is greater than the exogenous interest rate; the debt ratio (working households’ debt as a ratio of either the physical or the knowledge capital, or the output) is independent from the interest rate; and the allocation of a higher (lower) proportion of wage income to debt repayment (consumption) raises instead of lowers the debt ratio, which we dub the paradox of debt repayment.
    Keywords: Household debt; knowledge capital; capacity utilization; employment rate; output growth
    JEL: E12 E22 E24
    Date: 2022–11–29
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:spa:wpaper:2022wpecon23&r=knm
  4. By: Kamel-Eddin Bemmami (SYMME - Laboratoire SYstèmes et Matériaux pour la MEcatronique - USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry] - Université Savoie Mont Blanc); Lilia Gzara (DISP - Décision et Information pour les Systèmes de Production - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UCBL - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Université de Lyon - INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon - Université de Lyon - INSA - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées); Jean-Luc Maire (SYMME - Laboratoire SYstèmes et Matériaux pour la MEcatronique - USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry] - Université Savoie Mont Blanc); Christophe Courtin (SYMME - Laboratoire SYstèmes et Matériaux pour la MEcatronique - USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry] - Université Savoie Mont Blanc)
    Abstract: Many studies have highlighted the fundamental role of human capital in the inventory of an organization's values, and more particularly in its positioning in relation to its competitors. For an organization, a thorough knowledge of people and their competences allows it to have good visibility of its internal resources and to build a sustainable competitive advantage. With the digital transformation of organizations and increasing complexity in business processes, actors would learn a lot and redefine continuously their working practices. Competence management has become an essential factor in industrial processes' performance. However, competences management requires a relevant system of competence identification, given its complex nature and the evolution of the company's activities. In this paper, we propose an activity trace-based system to identify and represent competences mobilized during an activity.
    Keywords: competence formalization,digital traces,Enterprise information systems,human resource management competence formalization,human resource management
    Date: 2022
    URL: http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03832624&r=knm

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