Journal of Knowledge Management: Volume 27 Issue 10

Realizing dynamic capabilities and organizational knowledge in effective innovations: the capabilities typological map

Marcelo Cordeiro, Francisco Puig, Lorena Ruiz-Fernández

This paper aims to shed light on the mechanisms that connect dynamic capabilities and organizational knowledge in the innovative process to offer a new theoretical and practical…

More than a handshake – knowledge transfer in structured corporate–startup collaboration programs

Juliane Möllmann

This paper aims to review the existing literature on structured corporate–startup collaboration programs (SCSCPs) concerning their objectives and organizational design components…

The role of start-ups as knowledge brokers: a supply chain ecosystem perspective

Pierpaolo Magliocca, David Martin M. Herold, Rossella Canestrino, Valerio Temperini, Vito Albino

Existing literature is limited in its ability to consider start-ups as a knowledge broker to trigger innovation in a supply chain ecosystem (SCE). In a traditional SCE, start-ups…

Knowledge transfer from and within digital incubators: does the context of entrepreneurship matter? The case of women entrepreneurs in France

Séverine Lemaire, Bertrand Gael, Gloria Haddad, Meriam Razgallah, Adnane Maalaoui, Federica Cavallo

This paper aims to refer to the knowledge transfer of entrepreneurial skills between digital incubators and nascent entrepreneurs. It questions the role of the context and of the…

Linking experimental culture, improvisation capability and firm’s performance: a theoretical view

Zhongju Liao, Chao Huang, Yubing Yu, Shufeng (Simon) Xiao, Justin Zuopeng Zhang, Abhishek Behl, Vijay Pereira, Alessio Ishizaka

This study aims to investigate the causal relationships within an experimental culture of improvisation capability and firm performance, following the logic of…

Distributed innovation, knowledge re-orchestration, and digital product innovation performance: the moderated mediation roles of intellectual property protection and knowledge exchange activities

Hongjuan Tang, Yu Xie, Yunqing Liu, Francis Boadu

Despite the support of digital technology, there is a high degree of ambiguity and fluidity in the boundaries of digital products. This is because the addition of distributed…

How strategic knowledge hiding drives competitive individuals to establish research superiority: a case in UK Business Schools

Ashmiza Mahamed Ismail, Christine Elizabeth Welch

Why and when people working in organisations hide their knowledge has received considerable academic attention. However, little attention has been paid to knowledge hiding in…

When brokers start to fill structural holes: the cultural contingency of how entrepreneurs leverage structural holes to facilitate knowledge transfer

Jiayuan Liu, Xiaoyu Xi

This study aims to theorize and empirically examine how guanxi in Chinese collectivistic culture affects entrepreneurs to leverage the structural holes they occupy when it comes…

Unraveling the relationship between workplace dignity and employees’ tacit knowledge sharing: the role of proactive motivation

Amjad Iqbal, Tahira Nazir, Muhammad Shakil Ahmad

Drawing on social exchange theory (SET) and proactive motivation model, this study aims to examine the relationship between workplace dignity and employees’ tacit knowledge…

Open data-set identifier for open innovation and knowledge management

Marta Ortiz-de-Urbina-Criado, Alberto Abella, Diego García-Luna

This paper aims to highlight the importance of open data and the role that knowledge management and open innovation can play in its identification and use. Open data has great…

Advancing beyond technicism when managing big data in companies’ decision-making

Francesco Caputo, Barbara Keller, Michael Möhring, Luca Carrubbo, Rainer Schmidt

In recognising the key role of business intelligence and big data analytics in influencing companies’ decision-making processes, this paper aims to codify the main phases through…