nep-knm New Economics Papers
on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy
Issue of 2024‒09‒02
two papers chosen by
Laura Nicola-Gavrila, Centrul European de Studii Manageriale în Administrarea Afacerilor


  1. Knowledge Workers and Firm Capabilities By Mengus, Eric; Michalski, Tomasz Kamil
  2. Exploring competitive intelligence through the lens of managerial openness: a literature review and future research agenda By Zohor Kettani; Lionel Garreau; Amine Belemlih

  1. By: Mengus, Eric (HEC Paris); Michalski, Tomasz Kamil (HEC Paris)
    Abstract: Specialized knowledge-generating jobs comprise close to one fifth of employment and one fourth of the wage bill in French manufacturing firms. They are positioned high in the firm hierarchy, horizontally aside upper-tier managers but are not managerial in nature. This escapes the patterns implied by the hierarchy view of the firm. Conditioning on firm size and shares of management workers, their higher shares in employment at the firm level are correlated with more innovation and intangible capital, greater product complexity, higher revenue and quantity total factor productivity and profitability. This suggests that firms use specialized knowledge workers to generate within-firm knowledge and create firm capabilities. Consistently, we model firms as organizations where efficient production of higher-value added, complex goods requires information acquisition by within-firm knowledge workers to develop capabilities beyond those created by management and hierarchies.
    Keywords: firm organization; complexity; productivity; knowledge generation; capabilities.
    JEL: D23 D24 D83 J24 L20 M10 M50
    Date: 2023–01–20
    URL: https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ebg:heccah:1468
  2. By: Zohor Kettani; Lionel Garreau (DRM - Dauphine Recherches en Management - Université Paris Dauphine-PSL - PSL - Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique); Amine Belemlih
    Abstract: To remain competitive in today's dynamic business environment, organizations are constantly required to develop strategic use of sensible information, which is the role of competitive intelligence. In line with a growing openness trend of strategy making, we question, if competitive intelligence has experienced the same trend of being more open over the years. To the best of our knowledge, there exists no systematic literature review (SLR) addressing competitive intelligence practices through the prism of openness. Through analyzing 53 papers, this paper attempts to explore to what extent the three facets of competitive intelligence—monitoring, lobbying, and information protection—opened up to the external and internal environment of the company. Therefore, a four-dimensional framework of openness has been developed. It considers content-oriented and people-oriented openness along with outward-facing and inward-facing openness which highlight the flows of openness within the organizational boundary and the one related to the management team. Our findings reveal that competitive intelligence practices are both content- and people-oriented when it comes to assessing their openness, with a particular emphasis on monitoring practices. This SLR offers valuable insights on the way researchers have identified with the openness characteristics and competitive intelligence and provides new avenues for further research.
    Abstract: Afin de maintenir leur compétitivité dans un environnement dynamique, les organisations sonttenues d'adopter une approche stratégique de l'exploitation des informations sensibles, ce quirelève pleinement du champ de l'intelligence économique. Étant donné qu'actuellement, l'élaboration des stratégies tend vers une plus grande ouverture, nous nous interrogeons sur lapossibilité que les pratiques de l'intelligence économique aient également suivi cette mêmetendance au fil du temps. À notre connaissance, aucune revue systématique de la littératureexaminant les pratiques d'intelligence économique sous l'angle de l'ouverture n'a été identifiée.Ainsi, en analysant 53 articles, le présent papier tente d'explorer dans quelle mesure les troiscomposantes de l'intelligence économique se sont ouvertes à l'environnement externe et interne de l'entreprise. Nos résultats révèlent que les pratiques de l'intelligence économique sont à la fois axées sur le contenu et sur les personnes lorsqu'il s'agit d'évaluer leur ouverture. Ce papier offre donc des éclairages quant à la manière dont les chercheurs ont appréhendé lescaractéristiques d'ouverture dans le contexte de l'intelligence économique, ouvrant ainsi denouvelles voies pour des recherches ultérieures.
    Keywords: Competitive intelligence, monitoring, lobbying, knowledge protection, openness
    Date: 2024–06
    URL: https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04654057

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