scholarly journals Crossing Knowledge Boundaries: From Team Learning to Knowledge Teams

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (6) ◽  
pp. 700-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roland K. Yeo
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Learning ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Team Learning ◽  
Knowledge Spillovers ◽  
Knowledge Gaps ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Knowledge Resources ◽  
Situational Contexts ◽  
The Way

This article explores how team learning is enhanced through facilitated knowledge sharing, leading to knowledge teams that are capable of identifying knowledge gaps and crossing knowledge boundaries. Based on a qualitative study, vignettes are used to illustrate the dynamics of team learning in different situational contexts, facilitating the way knowledge plays out at the intersection of knowledge boundaries. The study examines how team members integrate or downplay knowledge resources based on the trajectory of participation and learning. Such trajectory helps determine the extent to which knowledge spillovers create wider networks of learning, leading to different forms of organizational learning.

Exploring the psychological safety of R&D teams: An empirical analysis in Taiwan

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi-Cheng Huang ◽  
Pin-Chen Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Team Performance ◽  
Team Learning ◽  
Psychological Safety ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Speaking Up ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractR&D is uncertain work that involves the knowledge, skills, or perspectives of team members. When R&D teams develop new products or technologies, the need for psychological safety within the teams is increasingly emphasized. If R&D team members perceive that team psychological safety exists, they may be willing to offer knowledge or perspectives during the development process because they are not afraid of being rejected or embarrassed for speaking up. However, the application of the theory of team psychological safety to R&D teams is considerably limited. This study explores the antecedents and consequences of team psychological safety in R&D teams. Our research model is assessed using data from a sample of 245 team members from sixty technology R&D teams at a leading R&D institute and is analyzed using the partial least squares (PLS) method. The results of this study suggest that: (1) social capital exerts a positive and significant effect on team psychological safety; (2) team psychological safety has a positive and significant impact on team performance; (3) knowledge sharing and team learning positively and significantly mediate the relationship between team psychological safety and team performance; and (4) knowledge sharing exhibits a positive and significant effect on team learning. This study also discusses the implications of team psychological safety for R&D teams.

scholarly journals Griping and Joking as Identification Rituals and Tools for Engagement in Cross-Boundary Team Meetings

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 753-774 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanessa Pouthier
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Team Communication ◽  
Building Relationships ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Team Meetings ◽  
Communicative Activities

This article explores the role of griping and joking behaviors in cross-boundary teams. Those socio-emotional behaviors often go unnoticed in studies of team communication, as does more broadly the work of building relationships. Given the growing recognition that the quality of connections among team members significantly influences the quality of coordinating and knowledge-sharing practices in cross-boundary teams, this seems an important lacuna to address. Drawing on a qualitative study of a cross-occupational team responsible for palliative care and oncology patients, I illustrate how those mundane, recurrent communicative activities, which may appear tangential to the task at hand, have important relational and emotional consequences for the functioning of cross-boundary teams. Based on the observed characteristics and effects of a variety of griping and joking behaviors, I propose to conceptualize those communicative activities as identification rituals. I discuss the implications of this work for both research on the production of positive relational realities in cross-boundary teams and the study of organizational griping and humor.

Exploring the psychological safety of R&D teams: An empirical analysis in Taiwan

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chi-Cheng Huang ◽  
Pin-Chen Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Team Performance ◽  
Team Learning ◽  
Psychological Safety ◽  
Research Model ◽  
Speaking Up ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Antecedents And Consequences ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractR&D is uncertain work that involves the knowledge, skills, or perspectives of team members. When R&D teams develop new products or technologies, the need for psychological safety within the teams is increasingly emphasized. If R&D team members perceive that team psychological safety exists, they may be willing to offer knowledge or perspectives during the development process because they are not afraid of being rejected or embarrassed for speaking up. However, the application of the theory of team psychological safety to R&D teams is considerably limited. This study explores the antecedents and consequences of team psychological safety in R&D teams. Our research model is assessed using data from a sample of 245 team members from sixty technology R&D teams at a leading R&D institute and is analyzed using the partial least squares (PLS) method. The results of this study suggest that: (1) social capital exerts a positive and significant effect on team psychological safety; (2) team psychological safety has a positive and significant impact on team performance; (3) knowledge sharing and team learning positively and significantly mediate the relationship between team psychological safety and team performance; and (4) knowledge sharing exhibits a positive and significant effect on team learning. This study also discusses the implications of team psychological safety for R&D teams.

Collective Paradoxical Frames

2017 ◽  
pp. 428-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ella Miron-Spektor ◽  
Susannah B. F. Paletz
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Acquisition ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Knowledge Integration ◽  
Team Learning ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Team Characteristics

This chapter develops theory on the effect of collective paradoxical frames on team learning and innovation. The chapter identifies contradictory yet interdependent processes of knowledge acquisition and creation, knowledge sharing and transfer, and knowledge integration and implementation. It extends theory on collective paradoxical frames, or shared cognitive filters that enable team members to recognize and accept tensions between opposing elements (e.g., demands, goals, and interests). It advances theoretical clarity by distinguishing between paradoxical, naïve dialectical, and either/or frames, integrating Western and Eastern perspectives to paradox. It also develops theory on how different frames affect the ability of teams to learn and innovate; on mediating cognitive and social processes; and on moderating conditions of context, task, and team characteristics. Finally, it identifies promising directions for future research.

scholarly journals Knowledge Sharing in a Collaborative Networked Environment

2007 ◽  
Vol 06 (02) ◽  
pp. 105-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Cormican ◽  
Lawrence Dooley
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Collaborative Network ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
Enterprise Networks ◽  
Knowledge Resources ◽  
Critical Areas ◽  
New Knowledge

Knowledge is a key resource that must be managed within organisations and across collaborative enterprise networks. In particular, the two major challenges that such organisations face are ensuring that they have the appropriate knowledge to support their operations and ensuring that they optimise these knowledge resources available to them. In recent years, researchers, consultants and industrialists have developed approaches in an attempt to address these requirements. Most of these approaches have been technology oriented. In other words, the implementation of information technology systems is seen as the solution to enterprise knowledge management problems. However, research indicates that organisations are still failing to convert individual skills and competencies into tangible products and services. Knowledge management is an emerging discipline and it is still not very well understood or managed in industry. Consequently, new knowledge initiatives are not exploited to their full potential. In other words, companies are not reaping the full benefits of knowledge management projects. This paper explores the key constituents to managing knowledge and examines the main problems with sharing knowledge across teams and organisational boundaries. Findings from a qualitative study suggest that the key problems to managing knowledge across a collaborative network are person centric and consequently managers should focus their efforts on improving critical areas such as motivation and trust as well as people oriented methods and tools.

Organizing and Managing Data Analytics Teams for Procurement

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Shao ◽  
Robert D. St. Louis
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Business Strategy ◽  
Data Analytics ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Procurement Process ◽  
Using Data ◽  
And Training ◽  
Different Levels ◽  
The Way

Many companies are forming data analytics teams to put data to work. To enhance procurement practices, chief procurement officers (CPOs) must work effectively with data analytics teams, from hiring and training to managing and utilizing team members. This chapter presents the findings of a study on how CPOs use data analytics teams to support the procurement process. Surveys and interviews indicate companies are exhibiting different levels of maturity in using data analytics, but both the goal of CPOs (i.e., improving performance to support the business strategy) and the way to interact with data analytics teams for achieving that goal are common across companies. However, as data become more reliably available and technologies become more intelligently embedded, the best practices of organizing and managing data analytics teams for procurement will need to be constantly updated.

scholarly journals Sexual Assault: Indigenous Women’s Experiences of Not Being Believed by the Police

2021 ◽  
pp. 107780122110139
Author(s):  
Jodie Murphy-Oikonen ◽  
Lori Chambers ◽  
Karen McQueen ◽  
Alexa Hiebert ◽  
Ainsley Miller
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Sexual Victimization ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Secondary Data Analysis ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
The Way

Rates of sexual victimization among Indigenous women are 3 times higher when compared with non-Indigenous women. The purpose of this secondary data analysis was to explore the experiences and recommendations of Indigenous women who reported sexual assault to the police and were not believed. This qualitative study of the experiences of 11 Indigenous women reflects four themes. The women experienced (a) victimization across the lifespan, (b) violent sexual assault, (c) dismissal by police, and (d) survival and resilience. These women were determined to voice their experience and make recommendations for change in the way police respond to sexual assault.

scholarly journals Study on the Usefulness of Machine Translation in the Migratory Context: Analysis of Translators’ Perceptions

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorena Pérez Macías ◽  
María del Mar Sánchez Ramos ◽  
Celia Rico
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Machine Translation ◽  
Context Analysis ◽  
The Way

AbstractThe use of machine translation in the field of migrations seems to be very limited and, in view of the latest developments, it is only natural to explore its usefulness in the migratory context. In an attempt to introduce this technology into this particular area, this article reports on a qualitative study on translators’ perceptions towards machine translation and post-editing tasks. The findings of the study indicate that both are not widely developed within the migratory context and further work is required. Based on our findings, we believe that this study can contribute to opening the way for machine translation and post-editing tasks to be included into the field of migrations.

Research on Green Supply Chain’s Coordination Based on Knowledge Spillover Effect

2012 ◽  
Vol 472-475 ◽  
pp. 2910-2913
Author(s):  
Yong Ye ◽  
Shao Wen Li ◽  
Gui Gen Miao
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Knowledge Sharing ◽  
Knowledge Spillovers ◽  
Risk Control ◽  
Spillover Effect ◽  
Knowledge Spillover ◽  
Compensation Mechanism ◽  
Coordination Problem ◽  
Benefit Evaluation ◽  
Mechanism Research

GSCM and its members of sharing resources generate knowledge spillover phenomenon within innovation activities.Considering the scarcity and publicity characteristics of knowledge,it puts forwards the driving factors including knowledge sharing cognition,technology gap, the economy and geography space, spill risk control and spill achievements’compensation.According to supply chain benefit coordination problem,it adds members’ participation and contribution factor for Shapley amendment model.Then it verifies rationality of the model by empirical analysis,which would be helpful for further knowledge spillovers benefit evaluation and compensation mechanism research.

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