The knowledge society It is obvious that knowledge management is a huge problem for the construction industry. A report released a few days ago points to the fact that especially small companies in the construction sector are not exploiting the knowledge and innovations created in technical research institutions. Small companies are lacking behind in the development – and are hampering the deve...

According to the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, people start a new firm because they are not able to commercialize their ideas and knowledge within the context of an incumbent firm or organization. Entrepreneurship therefore serves as a conduit for the spillover of knowledge from the firm or organization where that knowledge was created to its commercialization in the organizat...

Knowledge management in general, and knowledge creation in particular, gives organizations a competitive advantage in the knowledge era. Although there is a lack of deliberate knowledge management and creation efforts in modern Ethiopia, the country possesses 1,700-year old indigenous practices of knowledge creation. This research in progress seeks to explore the extent to which indigenous know...

Knowledge has become a substantial intangible asset of firms, and perhaps their most critical resource. As such knowledge management has emerged as a critical research field for Information Systems (IS). This paper addresses the need for additional research relating to the creation of knowledge in an organizational context. We leverage knowledge creation through use of a surrogate, the process ...

Any knowledge environment aimed at virtual teams should promote identification, access, capture and retrieval of relevant knowledge anytime / anywhere, while nurturing the social activities that underpin the knowledge sharing and creation process. In fact, socio-cultural issues play a critical role in the successful implementation of Knowledge Management (KM), and constitute a milestone towards...

With millions invested in knowledge management (KM), researchers and organizations are constantly investigating how firms can best organize their KM processes to reap instrumental benefits. Yet, most KM research, apart from being fragmented, overemphasizes knowledge creation and draws little attention to key intermediaries in the KM process. The paper captures the specificity of agents as key p...

Many representations of the movement of healthcare knowledge through society exist, and multiple models for the translation of evidence into policy and practice have been articulated. Most are linear or cyclical and very few come close to reflecting the dense and intricate relationships, systems and politics of organizations and the processes required to enact sustainable improvements. We illus...

We propose a new model of knowledge creation in purposeful, loosely-coordinated, distributed systems, as an alternative to a firm-based one. Specifically, using the case of Linux kernel development project, we build a model of community-based, evolutionary knowledge creation to study how thousands of talented volunteers, dispersed across organizational and geographical boundaries, collaborate v...