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on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy |
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Issue of 2026–06–29
six papers chosen by Laura Nicola-Gavrila, Centrul European de Studii Manageriale în Administrarea Afacerilor |
| By: | Gondauri, Davit |
| Abstract: | This article develops a theoretical and methodological framework for measuring agentic capital through historical indices, using the Georgian Church as a longitudinal institutional case. It argues that durable institutional status emerges from the cumulative interaction of legitimacy, knowledge accumulation and transfer, monastic networks, effective institutional leadership, autonomy, external recognition, and post-shock recovery. Accordingly, the Georgian Church is analyzed as an institution that converted knowledge, canonical authority, reputation, and organizational memory into long-term resilience and international positioning. The empirical foundation is an author-constructed historical-index dataset covering AD 33-1990. Historical events, ecclesiastical statuses, monastic centres, hagiographic evidence, Georgian knowledge networks abroad, and episodes of external recognition are coded on a 0-100 scale and organized into twelve interrelated indices. The analysis combines descriptive statistics, correlation analysis, principal component analysis, HAC-OLS, interaction and threshold specifications, ridge regression, and first-difference event regressions. These techniques are used to examine structured associations, cumulative co-development, and conditional effects within the coded dataset; they are not intended to establish direct historical causality. The results associate the Georgian Church's international institutional positioning with the combined operation of knowledge capital, institutional autonomy, external recognition, and recovery capacity. Georgian monasteries abroad, the network legacy of the Syrian Fathers, the academic traditions of Gelati and Ikalto, and the intellectual and canonical activity of George the Hagiorite and other ecclesiastical actors provide the principal mechanisms through which knowledge was converted into status, and institutional memory was transformed into a resource for recovery. The sequence of abolition in 1811, restoration in 1917, and formal recognition by the Ecumenical Patriarchate in 1990 further shows that the loss of formal autonomy did not eliminate accumulated legitimacy or knowledge capital. The article contributes an econometric framework based on historical indices that connects historical ecclesiology, institutional economics, knowledge-capital theory, and the concept of the agentic economy. Its numerical estimates are generated from an explicit author-coded database and should be interpreted as model-based representations of historical institutional relationships, not as direct statistical observations from the medieval period. |
| Keywords: | agentic capital, Georgian Church, historical institutional economics, monastic knowledge networks, institutional autonomy, external recognition, knowledge capital, historical-index coding, econometric modelling, principal component analysis, HAC-OLS |
| JEL: | B52 C22 C43 C51 D02 N33 N43 O33 O33 Z12 |
| Date: | 2026 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:zbw:esprep:341517 |
| By: | Kiran, Ramia; Jadoon, Atif Khan; Ali, Amjad |
| Abstract: | This study investigates the influence of value-chain configuration on innovation dynamics within traditional bioeconomy sectors, with specific evidence drawn from the sugar industry in Pakistan. A quantitative research design was employed using questionnaire data collected from 197 respondents, including producers, processors, managers, technical experts, and knowledge intermediaries operating across the Pakistani sugar-industry value chain. The analysis was conducted using Jamovi and SPSS software through descriptive statistics, exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, regression analysis, mediation analysis, and moderation analysis. The findings reveal that value-chain configuration exerts a significant positive influence on innovation dynamics by strengthening coordination mechanisms, facilitating knowledge-sharing practices, and enhancing organisational learning capabilities. The study further demonstrates that absorptive capacity and collaboration-oriented knowledge requirements partially mediate the relationship between value-chain configuration and innovation dynamics. The results indicate that innovation within traditional bioeconomy sectors remains predominantly incremental, efficiency-oriented, and interaction-driven rather than strongly technology-driven. In addition, competition and cost pressures were found to negatively moderate the relationship between value-chain configuration and innovation dynamics, explaining that excessive market pressure can weaken the innovation benefits associated with coordinated governance structures. These findings highlight the importance of collaborative governance frameworks, institutional support mechanisms, and inter-organisational learning processes in promoting sustainability-oriented innovation within traditional bioeconomy industries in Pakistan. The study offers valuable implications for policymakers and industry stakeholders seeking to strengthen innovation performance through improved coordination, knowledge integration, and strategic value-chain governance. |
| Keywords: | Value-Chain Configuration, Innovation Dynamics, Bioeconomy, Absorptive Capacity |
| JEL: | D24 O31 Q57 |
| Date: | 2026 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:129350 |
| By: | Phoebe Koundouri (Dept. of International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business); Angelos Alamanos; Anna Triantafyllidou; Giannis Arampatzidis |
| Abstract: | Flood risk in Europe is intensifying, yet a persistent gap between policy frameworks like the EU Floods Directive and locally actionable protection measures continues to produce devastating outcomes, as recent catastrophic events have demonstrated. Stakeholder workshops are widely advocated as bridging mechanisms, but are typically designed ad hoc, disconnected from systematic evidence, and lacking institutional follow-up. This paper addresses this deficit through a structured narrative review of the European flood governance literature, identifying gaps along four dimensions: knowledge, institutional, participation, and implementation. These gaps are translated into four evidence-informed design principles, which are then operationalized into a modular, phased workshop framework integrating collaborative governance, boundary object theory, adaptive governance, knowledge co-production, behavioural economics, and the Systems Innovation Approach. The framework's fixed logical structure (gaps, principles, phases, institutional outputs) ensures theoretical traceability, while its adaptable content enables application across diverse European governance contexts, hazard types, and institutional settings. Empirical validation through pilot implementation is identified as the priority next step. |
| Keywords: | Flood risk governance, Stakeholder workshops, EU Floods Directive, Policy implementation gap, Participatory governance, Adaptive management, Knowledge co-production |
| Date: | 2026–06–09 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:aue:wpaper:2617 |
| By: | Hinh T. Dinh |
| Abstract: | This paper, the fourth in a research series on services-led growth in the Global South, examines Egypt’s potential for growth and economic transformation through the integration of services into Global Value Chains (GVCs). It employs a new taxonomy that classifies services into Knowledge Services (KS), Enabling Services (ES), and Local Services (LS) and applies OECD 2025 Trade in Value-Added (TiVA), Trade in Employment (TiM), and input-output databases to benchmark Egypt against Morocco, Tunisia, and the EU15. The analysis shows that while services account for roughly 55 percent of Egypt’s GDP, KS remain thin at about 6 percent of GDP and 3.5 percent of employment—well below EU15 benchmarks of 15–17 percent of GDP and 12–15 percent of employment—while ES reach 12–14 percent and LS 34–37 percent of GDP. The paper identifies a structural imbalance between a large, geography-driven ES sector and a fragmented KS base. Egypt’s ES are dominated by transport and logistics linked to the Suez Canal, which generate high domestic value-added in exports but function mainly as geographic rent rather than GVC-embedded logistics, with limited private supply-chain integration or knowledge spillovers. Within LS, wholesale and retail trade is the central node in the domestic distribution network, and accommodation and food services remain a major, foreign-demand-dependent employer whose fortunes closely follow the tourism cycle. The data confirm that structural change over 2012–2022 has been services-led rather than manufacturing-led, with agriculture losing employment shares while business services and LS absorb most new workers. The data also show that its services are present upstream in other countries' production networks at levels that match or exceed EU15 benchmarks, yet they source almost no specialized foreign inputs in return — a configuration of autarky with upstream reach that defines the ceiling on Egypt's current GVC trajectory. Within KS, the study documents two divergent development pathways that contrast with the “dual orientation” pattern observed in the EU15 and, increasingly, in Morocco. Professional, scientific, and technical services (M) follow a domestication pathway characterized by exceptionally high forward linkages to the local economy but a lack of international competitiveness. Administrative and support services (N), including Business Process Outsourcing, follow an export-enclave pathway, successfully reaching foreign final demand but remaining structurally disconnected from domestic industries. While Egypt possesses the essential "building blocks" for a knowledge economy—including a massive labor force and a large domestic market—it has not yet synchronized these disconnected pathways The central policy priority appears therefore not to build KS capability from scratch but to connect these domestication and enclave pathways while preventing Suez-driven ES expansion from crowding out investment in KS, through a coordinated “big-push” strategy that deepens N’s domestic embedding and raises the international orientation and productivity of M. |
| Date: | 2026–05 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ocp:rpaeco:rp08_26 |
| By: | Christopher R. Esposito |
| Abstract: | Like physical products, new technologies are developed using globally sourced inputs. Yet while the supply chains behind physical goods are well understood, we know far less about the international supply chain of scientific knowledge that powers U.S. innovation, or how vulnerable it may be to disruption. Here, I uncover this supply chain by tracing multi-generational citation paths connecting NSF-funded research to downstream patents, and stress-test it by simulating barriers to scientific knowledge flows across the U.S. border. The U.S. knowledge supply chain extends globally, and frictions impeding the movement of ideas across the U.S. border reduce its connectivity, extend its length, and lower innovation productivity. These impacts extend to technology areas deemed critical to national priorities by U.S. Congress, including Semiconductors, Quantum Science, and AI. |
| Date: | 2026–05 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2605.30435 |
| By: | Daniel Goller; Enzo Brox; Stefan C. Wolter |
| Abstract: | Why do people sort into poorly fitting occupations? This paper shows that imperfect self-knowledge about skills is an important source of skill mismatch at labor market entry. We use unique data from standardized professional aptitude tests linked to administrative records on educational trajectories and early labor market outcomes in Switzerland. The data allow us to observe objective skills and subjective skill beliefs for many productivity-relevant skills in a high-stakes setting. We document large differences among individuals in how well their beliefs align with their skills. Imperfect self-knowledge predicts misaligned occupational aspirations, higher realized skill mismatch, and a higher probability of dropout. Guided by a Roy-style model of occupational choice with imperfect self-knowledge, we interpret these findings as evidence that distorted self-assessments at the school-to-work transition contribute to the misallocation of talent. |
| Keywords: | Information frictions, Occupational choice, Skill mismatch, Self-knowledge |
| JEL: | D83 J24 J41 |
| Date: | 2026–06 |
| URL: | https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:crm:wpaper:26166 |