Addas, Shamel Pinsonneault, Alain
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Knowledge Management Research & Practice
While there is abundant research that examines how information technology (IT) affects new product development (NPD) performance, little is known about the mediating role of team knowledge processes. Drawing on IS and knowledge management literatures, this paper develops a model that conceptualizes team knowledge processes as distinct channels of i...
Matta, Nada Ducellier, Guillaume Djaiz, Chaker
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Knowledge Management Research & Practice
Expertise represents important capital in a company. The loss of this kind of knowledge has pushed companies to look for a means to capitalize on it so as to use in the future. In the design domain, many companies usually learn from previous similar experience, the designers develop an existing solution, or try to rework an old solution in order to...
Janicot, Corinne Mignon, Sophie
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Knowledge Management Research & Practice
Although knowledge codification makes it possible to exchange and disseminate knowledge throughout the organization and reduce access time, enhancing the quality of engagements and relationships with clients remains problematic. We propose a model for knowledge codification built on the concepts of the service's time value and cognitive value, asse...
Azan, Wilfrid Bootz, Jean-Philippe Rolland, O.
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Knowledge Management Research & Practice
In this research, we are interested in ERP systems which are common information repositories that are aimed at matching the knowledge, practices, and skills that drive the organization in the best possible way. Can the cognitive and hierarchical models coexist within the same project? What is the impact of ERP on the interconnection between communi...
Azan, Wilfrid Huber Sutter, Isabelle
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Knowledge Management Research & Practice
Faced with demanding time constraints and the need to compete and communicate across a global market, firms have engaged in mergers and acquisitions (M&As) to accomplish various objectives, including, but not limited to, increasing growth potential and expanding product lines. Given the vital role of knowledge in the M&A context, the aim of this ca...
Matta, Nada Saad, Inès
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Knowledge Management Research & Practice
Khamseh, Hamid Mazloomi Jolly, Dominique
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Knowledge Management Research & Practice
We analyse how the impact of determinants of inter-firm knowledge transfers in alliances can be moderated by the proximity of the resources pooled by partners. Six factors are examined: relative absorptive capacity (RAC), inter-partner trust, cultural distance between allies, knowledge ambiguity, knowledge protection, and the partners’ learning int...
Suder, Gabriele Birnik, Andreas Nielsen, Niklas Riviere, Monica
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Knowledge Management Research & Practice
International strategy is enhanced by organizations’ ability to learn in host markets; yet, it remains ambiguous how post-entry knowledge gaps between home – and host country shape MNE’s absorptive capacity. This article builds on the specific contributions of ‘extreme case’ internationalization to advance literature in this field. We foster the un...
Château, Stefan du Boulanger, Danielle Mercier-Laurent, Eunika
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Knowledge Management Research & Practice
This article presents applied research work that addresses a real need for improvement of the collection, indexing and retrieval of knowledge of cultural heritage. To facilitate the task of fieldwork and to improve the access to knowledge, we designed, prototyped and tested in a real environment a system for automating the cycle of collecting and s...
Hong, Jongyi
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Knowledge Management Research & Practice
The Community of Practice (CoP) within an organization is a practical way to manage knowledge as systematically as other critical assets to deploy and share it. The availability of the right information at the right time based on performance evaluations is critical. However, there have been few attempts to identify Critical Success Factor (CSFs) ba...
