nep-knm New Economics Papers
on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Economy
Issue of 2026–07–27
three papers chosen by
Laura Nicola-Gavrila, Centrul European de Studii Manageriale în Administrarea Afacerilor


  1. Diffusion of tacit knowledge in a company: a mathematical model based on diffusion on graphs By Rados{\l}aw A. Kycia; Agnieszka Niemczynowicz; Andrzej Buszko
  2. Corporate research and value creation in Peru By Iglesias-Osores, Sebastian
  3. ORONER: An Ontology for Representing interOrganizational Networks Resilience. A building block towards adaptive network reconfiguration By Marisnel Olivares Amaro; Mohamed Ayoub Laouni; José-Luis Vilchis Medina; Éric Saux

  1. By: Rados{\l}aw A. Kycia; Agnieszka Niemczynowicz; Andrzej Buszko
    Abstract: This article is devoted to the process of diffusing tacit knowledge. This intangible asset has proven crucial for achieving a competitive advantage among market-oriented companies. A novel model of tacit knowledge diffusion is presented, employing the concept of heat diffusion from physics. Furthermore, graph theory and the dynamics it defines are utilized. We defined a Tacit Knowledge Transfer Graph that encodes data from questionnaires. It enables us to identify employees' learning needs, allowing for the planning of classes within the same period, such as a day, to schedule them optimally. Moreover, the model can be used to identify employees with high knowledge demands. The application is not limited to companies; a simple example of planning classes in a school/university is provided. The presented model can help with optimal scheduling, enhance operational efficiency, and improve talent management within the company. It can also identify risks associated with critical sources of knowledge and help improve organizational culture and knowledge management policy.
    Date: 2026–07
    URL: https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:arx:papers:2607.10919
  2. By: Iglesias-Osores, Sebastian
    Abstract: This working paper develops a conceptual and contextual framework for understanding corporate research in Peru as a value-creation capability rather than as an activity mainly induced by public grants or tax incentives. The central argument is that public innovation funds and tax benefits can accelerate business innovation, but they cannot substitute for the internal routines through which firms learn, document, protect, and capture value from knowledge. Drawing on the resource-based view, the knowledge-based theory of the firm, absorptive capacity, dynamic capabilities, open innovation, technological capability accumulation in emerging economies, and the appropriability literature, the paper proposes an integrated pathway linking corporate research, structured learning, firm-specific know-how, appropriability decisions, innovation capability, and economic value capture. The argument is situated in the Peruvian context through indicators of low R&D intensity, public information on Law No. 30309, patenting evidence, and sectoral illustrative cases. The paper contributes by reframing public innovation instruments as levers of pre-existing capabilities rather than substitutes for strategy, and by offering a practical maturity framework for managers seeking to transform research activities into intangible assets, technical reputation, and new sources of income.
    Keywords: corporate research; R&D management; innovation strategy; Peru; know-how; intellectual property; technological capabilities; appropriability; value capture; public innovation policy
    JEL: O31 O32 O34 O38 O54
    Date: 2026–06–07
    URL: https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:129921
  3. By: Marisnel Olivares Amaro (IRENAV - Institut de Recherche de l'Ecole Navale - Arts et Métiers Sciences et Technologies, Arts et Métiers Sciences et Technologies); Mohamed Ayoub Laouni (SKEMA Business School - SKEMA Business School [Lille], LEGO - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Gestion de l'Ouest - UBS - Université de Bretagne Sud - UBO EPE - Université de Brest - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris] - IBSHS - Institut Brestois des Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société - UBO EPE - Université de Brest - UBL - Université Bretagne Loire - IMT Atlantique - IMT Atlantique - IMT - Institut Mines-Télécom [Paris]); José-Luis Vilchis Medina (ENSTA - École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées - IP Paris - Institut Polytechnique de Paris); Éric Saux (IRENAV - Institut de Recherche de l'Ecole Navale - Arts et Métiers Sciences et Technologies, Arts et Métiers Sciences et Technologies)
    Abstract: Organizations are regularly affected by crises (e.g., pandemics, financial crises, natural disasters) to which they must respond appropriately in order to maintain their functioning and prevent decline and failure. A possible direction to achieve this is to develop their resilience in order to mitigate, anticipate, respond to and recover from adversity through the creation of interorganizational networks. This article aims to contribute to the understanding and modeling of how a network of interdependent organizations can collectively develop their resilience and how to infer the possible resource sharing between them. This study is undertaken through a strong coupling between social sciences (organization studies) and computer sciences (knowledge representation). We propose an ontological model, named ORONER, which is able to represent such organizational networks configurations with two future objectives: (1) analyzing the resources distribution within a network over a crisis period, and (2) reorganizing it to develop collective resilience. This domain ontology is based on the consideration of knowledge about organizations: the missions, interactions, crisis management, spatial-temporal entities as well as human and material resources necessary to operate organizations. Concepts are formalized using description logic and a set of rules is defined to infer some possible resource sharing. The evaluation of ORONER is performed through a case study and a list of competency questions, which exhibit initial and inferred interactions between organizations (e.g., municipalities, hospitals and schools) during the COVID-19 crisis.
    Abstract: Les organisations sont régulièrement affectées par des crises (par exemple, pandémies, crises financières, catastrophes naturelles) auxquelles elles doivent répondre de manière appropriée afin de maintenir leur fonctionnement et d'éviter le déclin et la défaillance. Une voie possible pour y parvenir est de développer leur résilience afin d'atténuer, d'anticiper, de répondre et de se remettre de l'adversité par la création de réseaux interorganisationnels. Cet article vise à contribuer à la compréhension et à la modélisation de la manière dont un réseau d'organisations interdépendantes peut développer collectivement sa résilience et comment inférer les partages de ressources possibles entre elles. Cette étude est menée à travers un couplage fort entre les sciences sociales (études organisationnelles) et les sciences informatiques (représentation des connaissances). Nous proposons un modèle ontologique, nommé ORONER, capable de représenter de telles configurations de réseaux organisationnels avec deux objectifs futurs : (1) analyser la distribution des ressources au sein d'un réseau sur une période de crise, et (2) le réorganiser pour développer une résilience collective. Cette ontologie de domaine repose sur la prise en compte de connaissances sur les organisations : les missions, les interactions, la gestion de crise, les entités spatio-temporelles ainsi que les ressources humaines et matérielles nécessaires au fonctionnement des organisations. Les concepts sont formalisés à l'aide de la logique de description et un ensemble de règles est défini pour inférer certains partages de ressources possibles. L'évaluation d'ORONER est réalisée à travers une étude de cas et une liste de questions de compétence, qui mettent en évidence les interactions initiales et inférées entre les organisations (par exemple, municipalités, hôpitaux et écoles) pendant la crise de la COVID-19.
    Keywords: Ontologies, Knowledge representation and reasoning, Interorganizational network, Crisis management, Organizational resilience
    Date: 2025–11–29
    URL: https://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-05666730

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