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The significance of technology platforms as interconnected networks of technological knowledge is steadily growing in diversified companies. The reason is that technology platforms support diversified companies to handle the conflicting priorities of fulfilling the customer demand for individualized innovations, while generating company-wide technological synergies. Hence, the success of diversified...
Despite there is more than ten years since the Open Innovation concept was presented for the first time, companies still demonstrate some difficulties in its implementation. The main challenge refers to the change process from closed to open model. Understanding how these companies adopt the open innovation in practice, which involves identifying the organizational adjustments necessary for such,...
Knowledge is the most important firm asset and studies show that social capital facilitates access to internal and external knowledge and in turn increases business value. In that respect, studies show that companies sharing some similarities such as organizational values and practices may benefit more than companies differing in various aspects. In particular, group affiliations have been shown to...
The primary goal of engineering education is to prepare students to work as productive engineers in society. This preparation traditionally focuses on developing students' discipline related technical and analytical knowledge, skills, and abilities. However, recent initiatives to develop a more holistic engineer have shed light on an aspect of engineering education that is largely lacking — the development...
This paper examines the moderating role of business and social networks in the internationalization process of born global high technology Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in the context of developed and emerging economies. We develop a conceptual model in which the relationship between the two types of networks and the internationalization process (speed, geographic scope and entry mode)...
The ability to quickly identify and rapidly apply effective business practices makes the difference between companies that manage to remain competitive even in crisis situations and companies that suffer from short-term market changes. To seize the opportunity to adapt their business practices according to emerging organizational forms (Extended Enterprise, Virtual Enterprise) and to improve the workspace...
Enterprise executives are taking note that great potential exists for enhancing knowledge sharing and linking experts within the organization when incorporating social software technologies into their operations. But there are warnings of potential negative effects if ineffective use or even misuse of these technologies occurs. There is relatively little empirical research examining the business impact...
The expertise represents an important capital in a company. The loss of this kind of knowledge has pushed the companies to look for a means to capitalize on it so as to use in the future. In fact, in many companies the design process usually learn from an old similar experience, the designers develop an existent solution, or try to take back old solution in order to adapt it to a new requirement....
This paper explores the knowledge demands of expertise seekers for the purpose of designing effective expertise locator systems. We conduct an empirical investigation, using conjoint analysis and within-subject tests, exploring the relative importance assigned to different experts' attributes under two expertise seeking contexts: knowledge allocation and knowledge retrieval. Our results show that...
Firms must compete in the world economy with superior knowledge. The ability to disperse that knowledge throughout the firm should be a primary consideration. An important question for managers is how to focus on the economic and social-psychological factors that affect knowledge sharing. Knowledge sharing is dependent on individual cognitions, which is one of the most complex task forms. Self-efficacy...
It is often assumed that to pursue knowledge management, a knowledge management system must be independently developed or purchased. The intent of this paper is to illustrate that a knowledge management framework can be designed by combining existing technologies and techniques. While some development work may be required, it should be largely limited to the integration required to produce and fill...
There has been a growing awareness of the need for models of engineering practice in recent years and the publication of The New Production of Knowledge [1] by Gibbons led to considerable attention being focused on two distinct modes of knowledge production: Mode 1 associated with a traditional academic discipline-based approach and the more recently-emerged Mode 2, a problem-focused process more...
An emergency plan is the substantial foundation to deal with emergency incident, and emergency plan process is a guide to action of emergency response. However, the unambiguous and uniform expression of emergency plan process is a crucial challenge. Since ontology is becoming a recognized vehicle for knowledge reuse, knowledge sharing and modeling, emergency plan process ontology(EPPOnto) is designed...
Web sites are acknowledged as essential to the marketing of brick-and-mortar companies in the maturing e-commerce marketplace. Knowledge of how to position these companies' Websites effectively is thus regarded as essential by scholars and practitioners. By investigating consumer cross-channel behavior, the current study was designed to reveal determinants of consumers' e-loyalty. Two hundred and...
In this paper, in allusion to knowledge sharing under the mode of master-apprentice, an incompleted dynamic game model is established. Optimal strategies of the master are analyzed under different information structures, together with corresponding strategies of apprentices in choosing quoted price and learning inputs.
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