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A Study of the Driving Factors of Knowledge Management
and Corporate Entrepreneurship in Iran
--Mostafa Bahrami, Mahdi Salehi and Sezer Korkmaz
The most important characteristic feature of contemporary organizations is their emphasis on management of knowledge and information as a means to improve efficiency. Due to the dynamic nature and interconnectedness of economics, different aspects of development have become critical for all the countries. Meanwhile, entrepreneurship is a multidirectional process that is required for both economic development and evolution through innovation and improvement. This paper aims to examine the driving factors of Knowledge Management (KM) and corporate entrepreneurship. Two questionnaires were used to collected the data on KM and entrepreneurship from a sample of 44 professors and managers of public and private firms. The data was analyzed using one-sample t-test in SPSS software. The results showed that firms employ information technology for transferring knowledge, and that respect for labor law increases efficiency.
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Critical Success Factors in Knowledge Management
Among Project-Based Organizations:
A Multi-Case Analysis
--Peyman Akhavan and Mohammad Reza Zahedi
The critical success factors for Knowledge Management (KM) within project-based organizations have been rarely explored through a multi-case study research. A majority of the studies have emphasized on the success factors of a single company and not considered all the factors in an integrated way through several cases from various industries. The aim of this paper is to study the critical success factors through a multi-case approach. The grounded theory approach was chosen to segment and analyze the data accordingly. The extracted results gave the critical success factors for KM in project-based organizations. The overall project output represented the appropriateness of the proposed critical success factors which provide guidelines to organizations adopting KM from different perspectives. Several concepts were extracted from the findings and a conceptual framework was formed to show how to adopt and manage KM in project organizations in order to benefit from its advantages. The execution of KM inside project organization requires a detailed and precise alignment of strategies and operational procedures. Therefore, the current study is among the few multiple case studies in KM of project-based organizations which helps the executives to construct comprehensive and efficient plans for yielding better results at lower costs. © 2014 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
Information Technology Support
to Knowledge Management Practices:
A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
--S K Chadha and Ritika Saini
There has been a transformation from an era of information scarcity to information surplus, so the key global pressures on management are knowledge identification, creation and dissemination. Development of Knowledge Management (KM) is represented as one of the most significant management movements in such an environment. KM has significantly benefited from Information Technology (IT). However, the extant literature has little practical support for this statement. Based on a review of literature, this paper attempts to develop an instrument and test the conceptual model linking KM and technology, using the Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) technique. Primary data was collected from three SMEs of north India—Software, Pharmaceuticals and Textile industries. The study model confirmed a positive relationship between IT and KM practices in the selected SMEs. © 2014 IUP. All Rights Reserved.
Synthesis of Knowledge Through Responsiveness,
Recognition, Formation, Attraction and Retention:
An Empirical Approach
--Anli Suresh
Knowledge Management (KM) is one of the much-talked-about concepts today. The knowledge economy drives companies to focus on relatively innovative aspects of Human Resource Management (HRM) such as awareness, application and retention of knowledge in order to get better performance correlated factors. Various processes like knowledge sharing, dissemination, recognition and retention help in creating a workforce with the kind of knowledge required for producing a better individual and organizational performance. This paper helps in synthesizing knowledge through responsiveness, recognition, formation, attraction and retention with knowledge management. The study is conducted across select Indian industries such as IT, Banking, Pharmaceutical, Engineering, and Real Estate with a sample size of 100 respondents through stratified random sampling. An empirical multivariate analysis of the data shows that formation, responsiveness, retention, attraction, recognition of knowledge have a strong correlation with KM, and the regression model derived further supports the results obtained, which facilitates understanding organizational progression.
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