scholarly journals DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE IN ORGANIZATION FROM CULTURAL AND NETWORK PERSPECTIVE

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 102-108
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Marek ◽  
Kalina Grzesiuk
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Culture ◽  
Diffusion Of Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Research Show

Diffusion of knowledge is recognized as one of the key factors that determines organizational success in the knowledge-based economy. The research problem concerns the way social networks and organizational culture may influence knowledge sharing among the agents in general. This article presents the review and critical analysis of literature on the diffusion of knowledge from network and cultural perspective. The results of the research show that both social networks and organizational culture might support the flow of knowledge in different ways. The quality and quantity of organizational knowledge depend on different ties between employees, organizational departments, and between an organization and its environment. The conditions for diffusion of knowledge are provided by the knowledge culture, which differs depending on choosing codification or personalization as leading strategy of knowledge management, as well as on set of key organizational values.

scholarly journals Research Issues of Structural Changes in Polish Industry in Geography of Industry

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 86-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Rachwał
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Socialist Economy ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Access To Data ◽  
Industry Structures

The research themes of geography of industry are continually evolving. The dynamic development of this sector of the economy after 1945 in the conditions of the socialist economy, in which the processes of industrialisation of the country were treated as priorities, as well as the processes of economic transformation in Poland after 1989, influencing the changes in the previously developed socio-economic structures, including industry structures, influenced the shaping of the research problem of this sub-discipline of geography in Poland. These changes, leading to the adaptation of these structures to the changing management principles, take place under the influence of impulses from the international environment associated with building a knowledge-based economy and moving from the industrial and post-industrial phase to the informational phase of civilisation development. These essential issues of transformation of industrial structures in the period of economic transformation and the development of a knowledge-based economy have become the subject of interest of many researchers, including economic geographers. The article presents the evolution of the themes and the main directions of research on structural changes in Polish industry in the conditions of transition from the centrally planned economy to market economy. In conclusion, it is shown that Polish geography of industry has undertaken significant scientific and economic problems of structural changes in industry during the period of economic transformation, continually updating its research priorities. Researchers quickly reacted to changes in the legal and political conditions of the functioning of the national economy, despite numerous barriers, related to, among other things, limited access to data on industrial activities, resulting in the lower interest of geographers in industrial research. The paper ends with recommendations regarding future possible research directions and a comprehensive bibliography of the studies.

scholarly journals Managing knowledge in the context of smart cities: An organizational cultural perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 47-85
Author(s):  
Wala Abdalla ◽  
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Subashini Suresh ◽  
Suresh Renukappa ◽  
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...  
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Culture ◽  
Culture Change ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
City Development ◽  
Major Barrier ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy

Smart cities need to take advantage of the opportunities that the knowledge-based economy and society can bring to the city. Therefore, cities planners and decision makers need to develop cities that take advantage of local knowledge and the intellectual capital of the population. Organizational culture is widely held to be a major barrier to creating and leveraging knowledge. Successful implementation of knowledge management (KM) almost always requires a culture change in order to promote a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration. Hence, organizations implementing smart cities need to place great emphasis on the need to change organizational culture to pursue effective KM and its successful implementation. However, the management of culture change is a complicated task; its precise nature in smart-city development and the strategies required to be adopted remains underspecified. This study aimed to explore organizational cultural transformation needed for managing knowledge in the context of smart cities. The methodological approach for this study is a systematic review, covering publications on smart cities, KM, and organizational culture. The method used in this study involved three stages: planning the review, conducting the review, and reporting and disseminating the results. The findings revealed three key themes which are: organizational perspectives of smart cities; organizational change, innovation, and digital transformation; and the relationship between organizational culture and KM. The paper concludes that the cultural transformation required for the development of smart cities needs to facilitate the ability to integrate, create and reconfigure both internal and external competences to manage knowledge that originates from within and beyond projects boundaries. This study provides an insight into urban policymakers, planners, and scholars to prepare for the challenges that organizations face in their efforts to manage and implement smart cities successfully.

Designing OMIS-Based Collaboration for Learning Organizations

2005 ◽  
pp. 827-830
Author(s):  
Kam Hou Vat
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Organizational Knowledge ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Organizational Memory ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Culture ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Organizational Resource

Today, the view that knowledge is a valuable organizational resource has become widely recognized and accepted in the business community. This is largely due to the emergence of the knowledge-based economy (OECD, 1996), characterized by a highly competitive and turbulent business environment. One consequence is the increase in organizations’ efforts to deliberately manage knowledge. Organizations are realizing that their competitive edge is mostly the intellectual capital (brainpower) (Stewart, 1997) of their employees, and they are particularly interested in harnessing their human resources in order to stay ahead of the pack, through their soaring attention on specific aspects of knowledge management (De Hoog, van Heijst, van der Spek et al., 1999), which deals with the conceptualization, review, consolidation, and action phrases of creating, securing, combining, coordinating, and retrieving knowledge. Undeniably, with Web-based and intranet technologies (Dunn & Varano, 1999), the connectivity and possible sharing of organizational knowledge (bits and pieces of individual know-how scattered throughout the organization) are greatly enabled to cultivate the knowledge culture of the organization. In a knowledge-creating organization (Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995), employees are expected to continually improvise and invent new methods to deal with unexpected difficulties, and to solve immediate problems and share these innovations with other employees through some effective communication channels or knowledge-transfer mechanisms. In fact, complete organizational knowledge is created only when individuals keep modifying their knowledge through interactions with other organizational members. The challenge that organizations now face is how to devise suitable information system (IS) support (Vat, 2000, 2002a, 2002b) to turn the scattered, diverse knowledge of their people into well-documented knowledge assets ready for deposit and reuse to benefit the whole organization. This article presents some learning organization perspectives of employee-based collaboration through the design of a specific IS support called the organizational memory information system—hence, the term OMIS.

Government Expenditures on Higher Education and Innovativeness

2020 ◽  
pp. 287-316
Author(s):  
Marko Slavković ◽  
Marijana Simić
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Higher Education Funding ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Education Expenditure ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Impact Of Higher Education ◽  
The Impact

Current trends such as globalization and the growing importance of intangible assets and a knowledge-based economy makes a significant contribution to highlighting the importance of higher education funding. Classified as one of the key factors determining the level of innovation and competitiveness, both at the micro and macro levels, education and especially higher education have been funded in different ways in different countries. Therefore, the main objective of the research is to determine the impact of higher education expenditure on innovation in Serbia and Slovenia, on the basis of which a comparison of results can be made. Analyzing the data for the period 2007-2016 and based on the results of the regression analysis, we conclude that there is a negative significant impact of the share of the state allocation for higher education on the level of innovation in Serbia, while the results relating to the situation in Slovenia are contrary and indicate a positive significant impact.

scholarly journals Ewolucja i rola pojęcia „treść” (ang. content) w społeczeństwie opartym o informację i wiedzę

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 105-119
Author(s):  
Jan Trąbka ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Explicit Knowledge ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Content Management ◽  
Management Problem ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
It Systems ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Enterprise Content Management ◽  
Definition Of

In today’s information society and knowledge based economy one of the main development factors is the use of electronic forms of creating and conveying information. However, there is a terminological and management problem with the volume of the processed information as well as the increasing number and variety of forms of presenting and conveying the information. In the last few years the fields of socio-economic sciences as well as technical and engineering studies have encompassed a new keyword – “content”, which in the Polish terminology is usually translated as “treść”. The language of economy, management and IT have lastingly embraced such terms as Content Management, Enterprise Content Management, Content Marketing or the most recent ones – Social Content or Content Governance. Content is an abstract and multi-meaning term whose use, despite its huge popularity, leads to many ambiguities and causes many interpretation problems. The first research question posed in this paper is – for how long has the term content been functioning in our environment? The paper presents the evolution of electronic information forms processed in IT systems for several decades now. The paper offers a broad definition of the term content as well as its most recent form –intelligent content. The second research problem presented in the paper involve the relations between the term content and the classic hierarchical concept – i.e. the Data–Information–Knowledge–Wisdom model (DIKW). The first conclusion is the statement that content is a category that encompasses the following processed in electronic form: data, information and the part of knowledge that can be formalized and recorded, i.e. explicit knowledge. The second conclusion from analyzing the functions played by content in the process of the organizational creation of knowledge is that content is the most important strategic medium in knowledge management within an information and knowledge based society.

Adapting Industrial Relations to Serve Knowledge-based Economies

2006 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Kochan
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
International Consensus ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Diffusion Of Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
New Institutions ◽  
Worker Voice

The central challenge facing industrial relations today is how to adapt its policies, institutions, practices, and research to serve the needs of the workforce and society in a global, knowledge-based economy. The field of industrial relations rose to prominence in the 20th century because it helped workers and employers adapt to their growing industrial economies. Today, we observe that many of the institutions and policies developed for the industrial era are in decline. A similar transformation of policies, institutions, and practices will be needed to help workers, families, communities, and societies adapt to the requirements of a knowledge-based, global economy. This will require renewed commitment to universal and life-long education and training, broad diffusion of knowledge-based work systems in organizations, more transparency and more direct worker voice in corporate governance structures and processes, flexible labor market policies that support mobility and portability of benefits across jobs and movement in and out of full time work as women and men move through different stages of their careers and family lives, and new institutions for worker voice and representation at work and in society. Given the global nature of economic activity, these reforms cannot be limited to single national systems; they must be part of a broader international consensus and coordinated effort to build transnational systems for managing cross border flows of human capital, jobs, knowledge, and value.

Hsinchu Biomedical Science Park: Integration of Knowledge-based Economy and Biotechnology — Managing Taiwan's Future

2002 ◽  
Vol 06 (20) ◽  
pp. 747-748
Author(s):  
Su-Ming Hsu
Keyword(s):  
Biomedical Science ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Science Park ◽  
Successful Development ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
New Look

The article is about the key factors to the successful development of the biomedical science park in Hsinchu. It touches on the new look of biomedical scientific development.

scholarly journals Knowledge-Based Urban Development The Impact of Knowledge- Based Urban Development in the Growth of Contemporary Cities

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Safaa Aldeen H. Ali ◽  
Shatha Saleem Abdulsahib
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Knowledge Workers ◽  
Spatial Relationship ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
City Size ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Development Literature

Urban Development refers to many topics such as: increased population density, city size, and individual’s production, distribution of technology and the growth of commercial, industrial and service professions. Such development is linked to the coordination of social and cultural trends in order to achieve social progress and economical prosperity. Knowledge as a topic now is known as intellectual capital wich led to upgrae the concept of urban development to be extended into many fields of knowledge, for example, cultural, social and human development to move the level of community culture into a new better standard. The research adopted the urban transformation based on knowledge as an important factor in growth and development of contemporary cities. T he lack of studies regarding this was the research problem which led to a hypothesis set as (Knowledge-based urban development is an important tool in contemporary cities growth). Research aimed (to build a knowledge frame-work related to knowledge-based urban development impact on contemporary cities growth) through the following sequence: Creating a knowledge-based urban development literature review. Clarifying the relationship between the knowledge-based urban development and knowledge workers. Determining the theoretical framework to recognize level of impact of knowledge-based urban development on the city growth. Testing the hypothesis according to the theoretical framework in selecting designated cities such as Sydney & Melbourne were selected as a case study, since they represent good examples for knowledge cities. The research concluded that: knowledge-based urban development in cities depend on technical economic and community directories as a mechanism to achieve knowledge-based economy and build a new spatial relationship (Knowledge City). Keywords: knowledge-based urban development, knowledge, knowledge workers, knowledge-based economy, Knowledge City. Urban Development refers to many topics such as: increased population density, city size, and individual’s production, distribution of technology and the growth of commercial, industrial and service professions. Such development is linked to the coordination of social and cultural trends in order to achieve social progress and economical prosperity. Knowledge as a topic now is known as intellectual capital wich led to upgrae the concept of urban development to be extended into many fields of knowledge, for example, cultural, social and human development to move the level of community culture into a new better standard. The research adopted the urban transformation based on knowledge as an important factor in growth and development of contemporary cities. T he lack of studies regarding this was the research problem which led to a hypothesis set as (Knowledge-based urban development is an important tool in contemporary cities growth). Research aimed (to build a knowledge frame-work related to knowledge-based urban development impact on contemporary cities growth) through the following sequence: Creating a knowledge-based urban development literature review. Clarifying the relationship between the knowledge-based urban development and knowledge workers. Determining the theoretical framework to recognize level of impact of knowledge-based urban development on the city growth. Testing the hypothesis according to the theoretical framework in selecting designated cities such as Sydney & Melbourne were selected as a case study, since they represent good examples for knowledge cities. The research concluded that: knowledge-based urban development in cities depend on technical economic and community directories as a mechanism to achieve knowledge-based economy and build a new spatial relationship (Knowledge City).    

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