Broadband Provision and Knowledge-Intensive Firms: A Causal Relationship?

Sharing knowledge in knowledge-intensive firms

Knowledge-intensive firms need to share knowledge held by employees if they are to gain the most from their intellectual capital and compete effectively in the marketplace. Sharing and integrating knowledge within the organisation depends partly on building social capital. However, there are obstacles to this integration because knowledge is often distributed throughout the organisation. This a...

Organizational Structure and Product Choice in Knowledge-Intensive Firms

This paper formulates a model in which a …rm simultaneously chooses its organizational structure and product position. The …rm’s production is knowledge-intensive, requiring employees to solve problems. A vertical hierarchy in which workers refer unsolved problems to managers facilitates the acquisition and leveraging of managers’superior knowledge. I show that a larger span of control is compl...

A Knowledge-Intensive Approach for Semi-automatic Causal Subgroup Discovery

This paper presents a methodological view on knowledge-intensive causal subgroup discovery implemented in a semi-automatic approach. We show how to identify causal relations between subgroups by generating an extended causal subgroup network utilizing background knowledge. Using the links within the network we can identify causal relations, but also relations that are potentially confounded and...

a study of relationship between knowledge sharing and organizational agility among personnel in esfahan power electric distribution company

پژوهش حاضر به بررسی رابطه بین تسهیم دانش و چابکی سازمانی در شرکت توزیع برق استان اصفهان پرداخته است . ابزار سنجش در این پژوهش پرسشنامه می باشد . به منظور سنجش متغیر تسهیم دانش از پرسشنامه وانگ و وانگ و جهت سنجش چابکی سازمانی از پرسشنامه چاربونیر استفاده شده است . هدف پژوهش حاضر تحلیل رابطه میان تسهیم دانش و چابکی سازمانی از دید کارکنان شرکت توزیع برق استان اصفهان می باشد . جامعه آماری این پژوه...

KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMPETENCE BUILDING - A case study of two knowledge-intensive firms