Enterprise Knowledge Integration Research Articles

Performance study of knowledge integration in marketing-oriented small and medium enterprises

Purpose: This study aims to examine the impact of the knowledge fermentation field on the knowledge integration performance of marketing-oriented SMEs. This research will help develop more useful market policies for company management. Design/Methodology/Approach: This research focuses on marketing-oriented SMEs, conducting a survey among 700 employees from 421 such enterprises. The collected data were analyzed to understand the influence of the knowledge fermentation field on the knowledge integration performance of these enterprises.
 Findings: Knowledge management plays a crucial role in marketing-oriented SMEs especially in terms of knowledge integration. Effective knowledge management strategies significantly enhance the market adaptability and innovation capabilities of these enterprises.
 Conclusion: The knowledge fermentation field in marketing-oriented SMEs positively impacts the enterprise's knowledge integration performance. The relationship between the field of knowledge fermentation and the performance of knowledge integration in marketing-oriented SMEs is moderated by the knowledge spiral fermentation system.
 Research Limitations and Implications: The study primarily targets marketing-oriented SMEs in a specific region and may not be entirely applicable to other regions or different types of enterprises. The influence of temporal variations on business knowledge integration performance may not have been properly taken into account during data collection.
 Practical Implications: This study provides businesses with an effective tool for developing and comprehending knowledge creation and innovation in the spiral fermentation system model of the knowledge ecosystem in small and medium-sized marketing companies. It fosters a healthier development path for the knowledge ecosystem in these enterprises.
 Contribution to the Literature: This study proposes a new theoretical framework in the field of knowledge management for marketing-oriented SMEs. It offers new perspectives and theoretical support for understanding and enhancing knowledge management practices in SMEs by integrating the concepts of the knowledge ecosystem and knowledge integration performance.

Knowledge search, knowledge integration and enterprise breakthrough innovation under the characteristics of innovation ecosystem network: The empirical evidence from enterprises in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.

Enterprises acquire heterogeneous knowledge through external knowledge search and adapt to the change of external environment, which is of great significance to enterprise breakthrough innovation. This paper takes the innovation ecosystem as the boundary of the research paradigm. Based on innovation ecosystem theory, knowledge management theory and enterprise innovation theory, this paper constructs a moderated mediation model of the enterprise knowledge search, knowledge integration and breakthrough innovation under the characteristics of innovation ecosystem network. This model is tested on the survey data of 344 technology enterprise and manufacturing industries including R&D departments in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region. The research results show that: knowledge integration plays part of the intermediary role between knowledge search and enterprise breakthrough innovation; the larger the network scale, the stronger the network connection, the stronger the intermediary role of knowledge integration on the relationship between knowledge search and enterprise breakthrough innovation. The research results reveal the important role of the innovation ecosystem in enterprise breakthrough innovation. At the same time, the research on knowledge search and enterprise breakthrough innovation should consider the network characteristics of innovation ecosystem and the ability of enterprise knowledge integration.

Knowledge integration in multinational enterprises: The role of inventors crossing national and organizational boundaries

Adopting a microfoundations approach to the analysis of intra-multinational enterprise (MNE) knowledge integration, we focus on mobile inventors and their boundary-spanning experience. Using inventor-patent data on US-based MNEs, we show that intra-organizational cross-border mobility and inter-organizational mobility have respectively a positive and a negative effect on knowledge integration. Cross-border mobility within the MNE enables the temporary co-location of mobile inventors in different units, facilitating the dissemination of their knowledge within the MNE. Conversely, “job-hopping” inventors may remain organizational outsiders, which hinders their ability to foster intra-MNE knowledge integration.

A Mediating Effect of Knowledge Integration and Moderating Effect of Organizational Task Environment

ABSTRACT In order to clearly analyse how IT-driven knowledge management capability affects enterprise’s breakthrough innovation activities, this paper systematically constructs a mechanism model of IT-driven knowledge capability influencing enterprise’s breakthrough innovation based on knowledge absorption capability theory, knowledge integration theory and organisational task environment theory. Through enterprise survey data, it is found that IT-driven knowledge competence has a significant positive impact on enterprise breakthrough innovation through enterprise knowledge integration, and organisational task environment effectively regulates this impact relationship.

Performance Evaluation of Knowledge Transfer among Supply Chain Enterprises based on Weighted Principal Component Analysis

According to those problems existing in performance evaluationof knowledge transfer among supply chain enterprises, this paper combines principal component analysis method with analytic hierarchy process,and on the basis of survey of the study on knowledge transfer performance evaluation, the paper establishes a performance evaluation index system of knowledge transfer among supply chain enterprises, which is from five aspects contains cost of enterprise knowledge, stock of enterprise knowledge, capabilities of enterprise knowledge sharing, exchange capabilities of the outside enterprises information and condition of enterprise knowledge integration. On this basis,using the Weighted Principal Component to carry on performance comprehensive evaluation of knowledge transfer among supply chain enterprises. Finally, an example illustrates the application of the Weighted Principal Component Analysis method has some practical value on performance evaluation of knowledge transfer in supply chain.

Ontology-based enterprise knowledge integration

Enterprises are getting more knowledge intensive, and the integration of various types of knowledge becomes a challenge. It has been accepted that ontology is an important concept for knowledge integration. In this paper, three issues have been addressed: (i) ontology construction which includes the method and implementation of a Concept Map based ontology construction, and the evaluation of the constructed ontology; (ii) a dynamic workflow, in which an ontology-based workflow system is used to accumulate knowledge during the business process, and (iii) the rules and constraints used for knowledge representation, in which a Semantic Web Rule Language (SWRL) is used to group the rules and constraints into different classes executed by a inference engine. Two cases have been studied using the above methods and tools. Case one is an acquisition prototype for the aircraft industry. The other is for an on-going bar code management project carried out by this research team. Both cases show that the developed methods can be used for knowledge integration.

Information management and knowledge integration for enterprise innovation

The key trends in emerging ICT integration choices for cost‐effective, flexible knowledge integration, work‐flow‐embedded evaluation and eCRM‐driven value innovation are examined. Enterprise knowledge integration initiatives can create socio‐technical and cultural tensions as well as possible straitjacketing of business process architectures thus suppressing responsive business re‐engineering and causing loss of competitive advantage for some companies. A framework, C‐assure, is presented for optimising knowledge integration, impact analysis and evaluation to support innovation throughout the various interacting enterprise lifecycles.