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The purpose of this paper is to explore the contributing factors of the knowledge management in universities through literature research, extract three elements that is cultural factors, information technology factors and organizational factors as hypothesis. The assumption is examined and verified through factor analysis by questionnaires, the data were collected from real knowledge management system...
The South African government faces a situation where a lot of information and knowledge relating to service delivery is continuously being accumulated. The challenge is that there is no systematic way of capturing, organizing, storing, sharing and using this knowledge to enhance innovation and service delivery in some of the government departments.
This study attempts to use Geert Hofstede's dimensions of organizational culture to examine how organizational culture moderates knowledge sharing behaviour. In particular, this study focuses on the dimension of employee oriented vs work oriented culture, which captures the extent to which the organization emphasizes care for employee well-being vs care for employee performance. Through analyses of...
This research examined the extent to which knowledge and innovation management practices contribute to innovation performance. A model of Systematic Innovation Capability consisting of various building blocks of innovation and linked to innovation performance and business success framed the study. A quantitative survey of 1,579 Australian managers was conducted to determine the extent to which various...
This study investigated the constructs of Leader-ship Social Power (LSP) used by organizational leaders to influence Knowledge Management (KM) workers to bring about a successful KM implementation. Researchers have shown organizations wishing to secure, improve, or maintain KM success, should ensure their leaders: 1) are committed to KM, 2) en-courage quality knowledge, and 3) promote knowledge use...
The ability to generate new knowledge and to transfer, use and apply existing knowledge is a crucial factor for systems in general and for companies in particular if they want to be capable to meet the future. One of the essential requirements for this process is the vision of the system. This vision has to adhere to certain criteria, i.e. transcendence of existing boundaries, commonly shared commitment...
This paper presents findings on organizational agility as an aim of implementing Knowledge Management (KM). These findings are contextualized by examining the leadership roles and the tasks that achieve this goal. In particular we examine structures in KM: of the authority, of the development, and of the implementation of KM strategy that support agility. Using data from a global survey we find definition...
In today's knowledge economy, competitive advantage is achieved through proper and efficient knowledge management (KM). KM is critical for organisational wellbeing. Research has shown that Africa has not explored knowledge management practices much. As a continent, Africa is being transformed economically, yet its knowledge economy is to be explored and developed. However, on a Development Community's...
It has been observed that all over the world, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are considered as major source for economic growth. Indian SMEs sector is also one of the fastest growing sectors of Indian economy. So it is very important for SMEs to know what their knowledge assets are, and how to manage and make best use of these assets to get maximum return. The effective implementation of Knowledge...
Defining when a knowledge management (KM) project or initiative is successful is difficult. Jennex, Smolnik, and Croasdel [14] [15]l proposed that KM success is measured in four dimensions: impact on business processes, impact on knowledge management strategy, leadership/management support, and knowledge content. This study proposes a set of measures that operationalizes these four dimensions and...
In this paper the researcher reports on an ongoing investigation on the implementation of knowledge management of conference information at two South African universities. In-depth interviews and focus were conducted with groups with academics and librarians in order to establish whether any of the recommended practices that are embedded in the vast literature base in this field are implemented as...
The paper studies the leadership orientation composed of relation orientation, reform orientation and task orientation. It explores the leadership orientation effect on employee innovation and the mediating effect of knowledge sharing. A model is established to discuss the relationship between leadership orientation, knowledge sharing and employee innovation. It investigates the private enterprises...
Lesson-preparing is an important stage in the field of teaching activity. The aim of this paper was to explore the use of Eduwiki as a new effective collaborative lesson-preparing platform to support teachers' collaboration and teaching. Furthermore, to verify and explore how to integrate Eduwiki into teachers' daily lesson-preparing activities, a single-group post-test and interview were used in...
The management of knowledge, in particular knowledge about the architecture, plays a pivotal role in global software development (GSD). In earlier research, we have defined what architectural knowledge is, and elaborated several practices for sound architectural knowledge management in a distributed setting. In this paper, we report on a large survey performed at an agile global software development...
This study documents the adoption and diffusion of a knowledge management system (KMS), known as AXIS. With 15% active users at present, the organization faces a gap which knowledge management specialists are trying to bridge. The grounded theory based study found 12 variables as a result, which can prove useful in stimulating employees adopting KMS to go online and share. In addition, the identification...
This paper constructed the model of knowledge chain (KC) and analyzed each part's function, unified the knowledge chain and the knowledge management, constructed the knowledge management frame based on KC. Through KC integrated all the parts about knowledge management.
On the basis of literature review, a hypothetical model on the relationships between knowledge-creating leadership behavior and the performance of team innovation was brought forward and then the model was tested by means of a questionnaire survey (608 valid stylebooks were obtained). The results show that knowledge-creating leadership behavior plays a positive role in the performance of team innovation.
This paper builds the studying model through literature reviewing, and then tests the relationships and the mediating effect of psychological empowerment between leadership style and employee innovative behavior based on statistical analysis of 21 IT firm samples. The studying finds that transactional leadership has a significant negative impact on employee innovative behavior, and that psychological...
A lot of factors will leads to the difficulties rather than dilemma for knowledge sharing between organizations. It is "free-ride" due to knowledge spillovers that lead to the dilemma. The knowledge leaders can not get complete compensation. On another side, the "free-ride" is not full free. Because the knowledge followers need to pay for the cost of information searching, self-learning...
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