Knowledge Transfers Over Geographical Distance In Organisations

Author : Vanessa Rebecca Hünnemeyer
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783658310189

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Knowledge Transfers over Geographical Distance in Organisations by Vanessa Rebecca Hünnemeyer Pdf

Current corporate structures based on internationalisation and decentralisation are opposed to the nature of the most important resource: knowledge. The acquisition and exchange of (tacit) knowledge relies on interpersonal interactions and is thus time- and place-dependent. Given that the combination of heterogeneous knowledge stocks furthers innovation, organisations develop strategies to ensure the transfer of knowledge. To enable intra-organisational knowledge flows spatial mobility at the workplace affects a wide range of employees. The study examines in which ways spatially mobile employees, i.e. expatriates, contribute to those knowledge flows. The study of ego networks reveals not only social dynamics of knowledge transfer, but the geographical framework allows to discuss knowledge flows from a spatial perspective. On the one hand, the empirical results confirm their knowledge transfer function. On the other hand, the relational geographical perspective reveals that expatriates do not represent a homogeneous group, but their roles in the knowledge transfer process, the geographical reach of their networks and their knowledge resources depend on job-, knowledge-, individual- and space-related factors.

Author : Gerard P. Hodgkinson,J. Kevin Ford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780470032312

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International Review of Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2007 by Gerard P. Hodgkinson,J. Kevin Ford Pdf

This is the twenty-second in the most prestigious series of annual volumes in the field of industrial and organizational psychology. The series provides authoritative and integrative reviews of the key literature of industrial psychology and organizational behaviour. The chapters are written by established experts and topics are carefully chosen to reflect the major concerns in both the research literature and in current practice. As in previous works in the series, this twenty-second volume provides scholarly, up to the minute reviews and updates of theory and research, covering developments across a wide range of established areas and emerging issues, including: socialization in organizational contexts, assessing the costs and benefits of human resources, strategies for reducing work-family conflict, coping research and measurement in the context of work related stress, and conducting applied research in a changing world of work. Each chapter offers a comprehensive and critical survey of the chosen topic, and each is supported by a valuable bibliography. For advanced students, academics and researchers, as well as professional psychologists and managers, this remains the most authoritative and current guide to new developments and established knowledge in the field of industrial and organizational psychology.

Author : Kjell Arne Røvik
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198832362

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A Translation Theory of Knowledge Transfer by Kjell Arne Røvik Pdf

In A Translation Theory of Knowledge Transfer, Kjell Arne Røvik develops a new theory on the challenges of transferring and sharing knowledge across organizational borders. Based on extensive research, he proposes a new, reframing idea of knowledge transfer as acts of translation, resembling the translation of texts. This new concept both extends and challenges established theories of knowledge transfer. Containing a comprehensive review of the last 40 years of research on knowledge transfer across organizational borders, this book also offers a step-by-step account of how a new theory within organizational research has been developed. Røvik states that the capacity of an organization to transfer and exploit knowledge from other organizations is a key to its competitiveness, progress, and even survival, and convincingly argues how this new translation theory can be used to guide practitioners involved in knowledge transfer processes.

Author : Preethi Kesavan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811597930

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Enablers of Organisational Learning, Knowledge Management, and Innovation by Preethi Kesavan Pdf

This book establishes constructivist, interpretivist, and linguistic approaches based on conventions about the nature of qualitative and text data, the author’s influence on text interpretation, and the validity checks used to justify text interpretations. Vast quantities of text and qualitative data in organizations often go unexplored. Text analytics outlined in this book allow readers to understand the process of converting unstructured text data into meaningful data for analysis in order to measure employee opinions, feedback, and reviews through sentiment analysis to support fact-based decision making. The methods involve using NVivo and RapidMiner software to perform lexical analysis, categorization, clustering, pattern recognition, tagging, annotation, memo creation, information extraction, association analysis, and visualization. The methodological approach in the book uses innovation theory as a sensitizing concept to lay the foundation for the analysis of research data, suggesting approaches for empirical exploration of organizational learning, knowledge management, and innovation practices amongst geographically dispersed individuals and team members. Based on data obtained from a private educational organization that has offices dispersed across Asia through focus group discussions and interviews on these topics, the author highlights the need for integrating organizational learning, knowledge management, and innovation to improve organizational performance, exploring perspectives on collective relationships and networks, organizational characteristics and structures, and tacit and overt values which influence such innovation initiatives. In the process, the author puts forward a new theory which is built on three themes: relationship and networks, knowledge sharing mechanisms, and the role of social cognitive schema that facilitate emergent learning, knowledge management, and innovation.

Author : Mark Easterby-Smith,Marjorie A. Lyles
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470972816

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Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management by Mark Easterby-Smith,Marjorie A. Lyles Pdf

The fully revised and updated version of this successful Handbook is welcomed by management scholars world-wide. By bringing together the latest approaches from the leading experts in organizational learning & knowledge management the volume provides a unique and valuable overview of current thinking about how organizations accumulate 'knowledge' and learn from experience. Key areas of update in the new edition are: Resource based view of the firm Capability management Global management Organizational culture Mergers & acquisitions Strategic management Leadership

Author : Andreas Pyka,John Foster
Publisher : Springer
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319132990

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The Evolution of Economic and Innovation Systems by Andreas Pyka,John Foster Pdf

This book is at the cutting edge of the ongoing ‘neo-Schumpeterian’ research program that investigates how economic growth and its fluctuation can be understood as the outcome of a historical process of economic evolution. Much of modern evolutionary economics has relied upon biological analogy, especially about natural selection. Although this is valid and useful, evolutionary economists have, increasingly, begun to build their analytical representations of economic evolution on understandings derived from complex systems science. In this book, the fact that economic systems are, necessarily, complex adaptive systems is explored, both theoretically and empirically, in a range of contexts. Throughout, there is a primary focus upon the interconnected processes of innovation and entrepreneurship, which are the ultimate sources of all economic growth. Twenty two chapters are provided by renowned experts in the related fields of evolutionary economics and the economics of innovation.

Author : Putnik, Goran D.,Cruz-Cunha, Maria Manuela
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 2048 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781599048864

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Encyclopedia of Networked and Virtual Organizations by Putnik, Goran D.,Cruz-Cunha, Maria Manuela Pdf

[Administration (référence électronique] ; informatique].

Author : Marzia Zaman,Yawei Liang,Sohail M. Siddiqui,Tim Wang,Vincent Liu,Ceecee Lu
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642163968

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E-business Technology and Strategy by Marzia Zaman,Yawei Liang,Sohail M. Siddiqui,Tim Wang,Vincent Liu,Ceecee Lu Pdf

The International Conference on E-business Technology & Strategy (CETS) provides a peer-reviewed forum for researchers from across the globe to share contemporary research on developments in the fields of e-business, information technology and business strategy. It seeks to promote effective and vibrant networking among researchers and practitioners from around the world who are concerned about the effective management of information technology in organizations. This network of researchers views fostering the development of emerging scholars in the information technology and e-business fields as its primary task. Consequently the conference is designed to provide a venue for researchers to get substantive and beneficial feedback on their work. There were 134 contributions submitted to CETS 2010. After in-depth discussions, 29 high-quality contributions were selected for publication in this volume. The authors are from Canada, USA, China, Japan, India and Malaysia. We thank all the authors who submitted papers, the Program Committee members, and the external reviewers. We also thank all the local people who were instrumental in making this edition of CETS another very successful event. In particular, we are very grateful to Ying Xie, who was responsible for the local arrangements. Special gratitude goes to the publishing editor, Leonie Kunz, who managed the complexity of information and communication aspects. Furthermore, we thank the many students who volunteered on the organization team, as well as the IT services of Carleton University.

Author : Joris Knoben
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1782543996

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Firm Mobility and Organizational Networks by Joris Knoben Pdf

Uses insights from economic geography and organization science to develop a multidisciplinary firm-level perspective on the causes and consequences of firm relocation. This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on the relations between organizational networks, spatial firm mobility, and firm performance.

Author : Linda Argote,John M. Levine
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-02
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780190686192

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The Oxford Handbook of Group and Organizational Learning by Linda Argote,John M. Levine Pdf

Groups and organizations vary dramatically in their ability to learn. Some acquire substantial knowledge as a function of experience, while others do not. In groups, learning can occur at the level of the individual member and/or the group as a whole. In organizations, learning can occur at both of these levels as well as that of the wider collective. Besides varying in the amount and kind of information they acquire, groups and organizations also vary regarding their success in retaining knowledge and transferring it to other units. In general, groups and organizations that are proficient in acquiring, retaining, and transfering knowledge are more productive and more enduring than their less able counterparts. The goal of this handbook is to bring together cutting-edge theoretical and empirical work on group and organizational learning by leading scholars from several disciplines. Because many of the same processes influence learning in groups and organizations, including both kinds of learning in the same volume has the potential to facilitate the integration of knowledge and the cross-fertilization of ideas. These benefits are reciprocal, in that research at the group level can shed light on how organizations learn whereas research at the organizational level can illuminate how groups learn. By clarifying similarities and differences in the processes that underlie learning in groups and organizations, the handbook advances understanding of the causes and consequences of learning in collectives of varying size and complexity.

Author : John Bryson,Peter Daniels,Nick Henry,Jane Pollard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134656776

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Knowledge, Space, Economy by John Bryson,Peter Daniels,Nick Henry,Jane Pollard Pdf

We are now living through a period of knowledge capitalism in which, as Castells put it, 'the action of knowledge upon knowledge is the main source of productivity.' In the face of such transformation, the economic, social and institutional contours of contemporary capitalism are being reshaped. At the heart of this world are an emergent set of economies, regions, institutions and peoples central of the flows and translations of knowledge. This book provides an interdisciplinary review of the triad of knowledge, space, economy on entering the twenty-first century. Drawing on a variety of disciplinary backgrounds, the first part of the book comprises a set of statements by leading authors on the role of knowledge in capitalism. Thereafter, the remaining two parts of the book explore the landscape of knowledge capitalism through a series of analyses of knowledge in action within a range of economic, political and cultural contexts. Bringing together a set of authors from across the social sciences, this book provides both a major theoretical statement on understanding the economic world and an empirical exemplification of the power of knowledge in shaping the spaces and places of today's society.

Author : Dr Annie Green
Publisher : Academic Conferences Limited
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : Intellectual capital
ISBN : 9781909507777

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Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Intellectual Capital, knowledge Management and Organisational Learning by Dr Annie Green Pdf

Author : Khosrow-Pour D.B.A., Mehdi
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 2734 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781799834748

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Encyclopedia of Organizational Knowledge, Administration, and Technology by Khosrow-Pour D.B.A., Mehdi Pdf

For any organization to be successful, it must operate in such a manner that knowledge and information, human resources, and technology are continually taken into consideration and managed effectively. Business concepts are always present regardless of the field or industry – in education, government, healthcare, not-for-profit, engineering, hospitality/tourism, among others. Maintaining organizational awareness and a strategic frame of mind is critical to meeting goals, gaining competitive advantage, and ultimately ensuring sustainability. The Encyclopedia of Organizational Knowledge, Administration, and Technology is an inaugural five-volume publication that offers 193 completely new and previously unpublished articles authored by leading experts on the latest concepts, issues, challenges, innovations, and opportunities covering all aspects of modern organizations. Moreover, it is comprised of content that highlights major breakthroughs, discoveries, and authoritative research results as they pertain to all aspects of organizational growth and development including methodologies that can help companies thrive and analytical tools that assess an organization’s internal health and performance. Insights are offered in key topics such as organizational structure, strategic leadership, information technology management, and business analytics, among others. The knowledge compiled in this publication is designed for entrepreneurs, managers, executives, investors, economic analysts, computer engineers, software programmers, human resource departments, and other industry professionals seeking to understand the latest tools to emerge from this field and who are looking to incorporate them in their practice. Additionally, academicians, researchers, and students in fields that include but are not limited to business, management science, organizational development, entrepreneurship, sociology, corporate psychology, computer science, and information technology will benefit from the research compiled within this publication.

Author : Alessandra Vecchi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319588834

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Reshoring of Manufacturing by Alessandra Vecchi Pdf

This book examines key aspects of the increasingly important phenomenon of reshoring – the decision of companies to reverse offshoring by bringing manufacturing back from overseas. The aim is to equip readers with a full understanding of the current extent of reshoring, its drivers, and the associated opportunities and challenges. The impact of governments’ economic policies on the location choices of entrepreneurs in an era of globalization is carefully analyzed, drawing on experiences in the United States and Italy, where contrasting encouragement is provided for reshoring decisions. The effect on reshoring of recent developments regarding technology, the environment, and other factors is assessed in depth, and readers will also find close scrutiny of the relationship between reshoring and manufacturing performance. The book will be of interest to all academics, researchers, and practitioners with an interest in the manufacturing industry and will be an excellent teaching aid for a variety of courses in different disciplines at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 2628 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781609605889

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Global Business: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications by Management Association, Information Resources Pdf

"This multi-volume reference examines critical issues and emerging trends in global business, with topics ranging from managing new information technology in global business operations to ethics and communication strategies"--Provided by publisher.