Knowledge Creation Practices Research Articles

Analysis of knowledge creation practices and organisational performance in sports organisations: a comparative study

ABSTRACT In today’s world, organisations that can improve and develop their intangible assets and knowledge will be successful in the face of changes and can ultimately improve their performance. Given that the effectiveness of knowledge creation is influenced by culture, independent studies in different cultures are necessary. Therefore, the present study was conducted to analyse knowledge-creation practices and organisational performance in sports federations in Iran and Poland. Two researcher-made questionnaires were used to collect data. Statistical tests including Mann – Whitney U and regression were used to the data analysis. The findings showed internalisation in Poland and socialisation in Iran are the main predictors of organisational performance in sports federations. So, the managers of sports federations in Poland and Iran should use different knowledge creation practices to improve organisational performance. In both countries, however, the conversion of knowledge into tacit knowledge guarantees the improvement of organisational performance.

Knowledge-ing as a response-able practice in the Anthropocene: Re-turning (to) the research events like an earthworm

This paper began with the assumption that the habitual practices of knowledge-creation, which have shaped the day-to-day contexts of teachers and researchers, are not greatly different from the practices that have led to human-made catastrophes in the Anthropocene. I pondered over my experiences as a researcher in an attempt to gain insights for thinking about and engaging in knowledge-creation differently to become more response-able in the Anthropocene. Inspired by post-qualitative research practice, I re-turned, like an earthworm, (to) two research events. A theoretical framework informed by critical posthumanism and feminist new materialism guided the process. Through these re-turns, I came to understand that creating knowledge is a complex and indeterminate process that always accompanies the ‘more-than’. Attending to the notion of knowledge-ing, I discussed the ways in which knowledge emerged as a flow that was neither fully graspable nor static through more-than-human intra-actions. What I propose in this paper is not a methodological technique, but rather, a mode of practice that might disrupt our sense of Cartesian self. I offered some suggestions for teachers and researchers to reimagine the practices of knowledge-creation as a way of reinventing their subjectivity and responding to the damaged earth more responsibly.

Designs and practices using generative AI for sustainable student discourse and knowledge creation

Utilizing generative artificial intelligence, especially the more popularly used Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) architecture, has made it possible to employ AI in ways that were previously not possible with conventional assessment and evaluation technologies for learning. As educational use cases and academic studies become increasingly prevalent, it is critical for education stakeholders to discuss design considerations and ideals that are key in supporting and augmenting learning via quality classroom discourse that sets the climate for student learning and thinking, and teachers’ transmission of expectations. In this paper, we seek to address how emergent technological advancements such as GPT, can be considered and utilized in designs that are consistent with the ideals of sustainable student discourse and knowledge creation. We showcase contemporary exemplars of possible designs and practices that are based on the pedagogy of knowledge building, with recent illustrations of how GPT may be utilized to sustain students’ knowledge building discourse. We also examine the potential effects and repercussions of technological utilization and misuse, along with insights into GPT’s role in supporting and enhancing knowledge building practices. We anticipate that the findings, through our exploration of designs and practices for knowledge creation, will be able to resonate with a broader audience and instigate meaningful change on issues of teaching and learning within smart learning environments.

Influence of knowledge creation on organizational competitive advantage in the telecommunication industry in Kenya

The knowledge-based theory of organizations affirms that knowledge creation explains why some organizations appear superior in the market. Various models have been developed to explain the concept of knowledge creation or generation at a personal, team or organizational level. The general objective of this study was to establish the influence of knowledge creation on organizational competitive advantage in the telecommunication industry in Kenya. This study used a cross-sectional survey research design. The study sampled 100 knowledge management staff in the telecommunication industry in Kenya. Respondents were selected using random sampling technique. Questionnaires were used to collect data. The association between knowledge creation and competitive advantage was examined using correlational analysis. The study revealed that knowledge-creation practices account for 32.2% of the competitive advantage of telecommunication firms. According to the findings in this study, socialization has a statistically significant association with organizational competitive advantage. Results also showed that externalization statistically correlates with organizational competitive advantage. Additionally, it was established that combination has a statistically significant association with organizational competitive advantage. This study determined that Internalization has a statistically significant association with an organizational competitive advantage. It was concluded that knowledge creation significantly positively affects organizational competitive advantage. Organizational knowledge can be created through socialization, externalization, combination, and Internalization. These practices show a significant positive association with an organizational competitive advantage.

Expression of Knowledge Sharing in Virtual Communities of Interest: A Reading Community-Based Research

Members of modern society, being active media users, live and carry out professional, social or leisure activities with and on the media, which changes the previously usual ways and forms of how they realize their needs and goals. In the era of digitization, various virtual communities are emerging, whose members focus on the practices of knowledge creation, processing and sharing. Virtual communities of practice have received much attention from researchers, but communities of interest are a less researched phenomenon. In the context of communities of various interests, communities of readers are active, sharing their knowledge and reading experience with each other. The article presents the conducted research, during which the aim was to investigate the expression of knowledge sharing and the factors promoting it in a reading community on the social network Facebook. With the development of social networks, the growth of various virtual communities of interest is noticeable, in which participants operate on a voluntary basis, seek to realize their various needs and participate in collective cooperation processes. Community members have been found to have the knowledge to share. This awareness of the opportunity to benefit others and the resulting feedback empowers actors to create value for the community.

A STUDY OF SOCIAL SUCCESS FACTORS OF KM FOR CREATION OF NEW KNOWLEDGE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Dearing report by Higher Education Funding Council for England, 2006, suggested that in the times of intensified global competition, high- level skills and knowledge would become pertinent and indispensable for the country’s economic success. The SECI model of knowledge conversion given by Nonaka and his colleagues, is extensively used across industries and nations to explore the knowledge creation dimension of knowledge management. Areas of KM such as creation of novel knowledge and knowledge as intellectual capital require a lot of work and consideration from both theoretical as well as applied perspectives. With this in mind, the present study seeks to explore the social enablers or success factors contributing to knowledge creation in the higher education institutions in India. The findings suggest that the social success factors in the study significantly impact the process of knowledge creation. Moreover, different social enablers contribute significantly to different modes of the process of conversion and creation of new knowledge. The pragmatic implication of the present study could guide institutions to assess the prevalence of knowledge creation practices and success factors to be emphasized more to increase knowledge conversion and creation with respect to their organization.

Understanding the FLE-based organizational knowledge creation process in hospitality firms

This study explores how front-line employees' (FLE) knowledge is stepwise transformed into a hotel's organizational knowledge. It combines insights from organizational knowledge creation theory with empirical evidence from three Chinese five-star hotels. Qualitative data were collected through semi-structured interviews and reading archives, and analyzed using thematic analysis. We develop a novel framework comprising three types of FLEs' knowledge activities–knowledge demonstration (KD), knowledge justification (KJ), and knowledge re-contextualization (KRC)–which can routinely trigger the hotel's bottom-up organizational knowledge creation process. We also explain how FLEs' KD/KJ/KRC activities facilitate the hotel's organizational knowledge creation practices by examining changes in the new knowledge's scope of application and the participant structure of knowledge-related interactions induced by these activities. This study contributes to knowledge management research in hospitality by proposing a new perspective that encompasses FLEs' knowledge activities and the concomitant knowledge transformation that occurs in hotels.

KNOWLEDGE CREATION PRACTICES AND EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE IN SELECTED PUBLIC TECHNICAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING INSTITUTIONS IN KENYA

<p>Employee performance in technical vocational education and training institutions has been found to be poor. Poor performance among employees is exhibited through a high level of incompetence and lack of innovativeness among Technical Vocational Education and Training Institutions (TVET) graduates. This culminates in problems of graduate employability owing to a lack of required skills required by employers. This poor performance may be ascribed in part to deterioration in individual employee performance as a consequence of ineffective skills amongst employees and inadequate knowledge management practices inside the institutions. Globally, despite the fact that there exist many knowledge management practices in higher educational institutions in many countries, there is strong agreement amongst academics and researchers that knowledge imparted through higher institutions of learning falls short in providing youth with the appropriate and relevant skills needed to succeed in the labour market. Higher education institutions as ‘knowledge intensive’ organizations thrive on the creation and dissemination of knowledge and therefore rely heavily on the performance of its employees to facilitate and continually generate and disseminate knowledge. The study sought to investigate the influence of Knowledge Creation Practices on Employee Performance in public technical vocational education and training institutions in Kenya. The study was anchored on Unified Model of Dynamic Knowledge Creation propounded by Nonaka, Toyama & Konno in the year 2000. The study used a positivism philosophy and a descriptive survey research design. The target population comprised of 11 national polytechnics in Kenya. The unit of inquiry comprised of 265 administrators comprised of both academic and non-academic heads of department. Primary data was collected using structured self-administered questionnaires. The reliability of the research instrument was ascertained using Cronbach Alpha. Validity was established using content and construct validity. Quantitative data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics with aid of SPSS 26. Descriptive analysis used includes; frequencies, mean, standard deviation and percentages while inferential analysis involved correlation analysis and multiple linear regression analysis to test the hypothesis at a significance level of 0.05. Regression analysis indicated that knowledge creation (P=0.000) has a significant influence on employee performance. The study concluded that knowledge creation practices significantly influence employee performance in TVETs. The study recommends that managers should create a better atmosphere in their institutions that encourage their employees to express new ideas. They also should apply effective ways to manage knowledge workers better by creating policies that inculcate new knowledge which consequently should go a long way in continously improving employee performance.<strong></strong></p><p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0558/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

Assessing the Perceptions of Academic Librarians Towards the Practices of Knowledge Management in University libraries of Punjab

The new trend knowledge economy emerged from the last decade in academia and business industry. Whilst knowledge management the subfield of knowledge economy, knowledge management is an entirely new conception and way of management. The research main purpose is to postulate the process of. knowledge possession, formation, sharing, categorization and retaining amongst the university librarians of the Punjab, Pakistan. For data collection for this study, Survey method was used. The research tool was developed for data collection on the basis of published literature. The analyzed results showed that aspects of KM; knowledge possession, systematization, acquisition, knowledge retention and knowledge creation practices become an assist of organization to progress and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization. These are basic factors for the accomplishment of an organization and play main job to attain the organizational goals. It is the role of Km is very essential for the availability of services, effectiveness, efficiency, performance and productivity of the professionals. The findings of this study can be used by the academic libraries and other organizations to develop their practices.

Interactive Research Artifacts as Creative Tools for Knowledge Creation

In my doctoral programme, I aim to lay the foundations for understanding the novel impacts of interactive technologies on knowledge creation in the digital age. Specifically, I propose an ethnographic approach to understand current scholars’ conceptualizations of “interactive research artifacts.” Through this process, I will propose a definition and set of criteria for these artifacts that en- compasses the dynamic ways these technologies transform knowledge creation practices. I will consider these artifact creation practices to be creative in nature, and as such, will draw on Design Studies and work on digital creativity to bridge computation, knowledge creation, and communications literature. I will begin with a pilot conference where scholars of all disciplines will be invited to share and discuss interactive research artifacts they have created. From there, I will use ethnographically-informed case studies to explore scholars’ lived experi- ences with these artifacts. Based off these findings, I will propose a conceptu- alization of interactive research artifacts and initial design considerations. These will be examined and remoulded in co-design workshops, where, with more scholars, we will co-create design guidelines for the future creation of interac- tive research artifacts. To design for a future where interactive research artifacts become commonly used scholarly tools, an in-depth understanding of the ways these artifacts are used as knowledge creation tools is critical.

Comparative Analysis of Faculty of Natural Sciences and Social Science in Context of Knowledge Creation Practices

Knowledge is an important entity for every organization as knowledge creation leads towards a competitive advantage. The study was carried out to compare the knowledge creation practices of faculty of natural sciences and faculty of social sciences. Spiral knowledge creation theory was the base of the study, and objectives were to; 1) explore the status of knowledge creation practice of university teachers 2) compare the knowledge creation practices of faculty of natural sciences and social sciences. The total population was 4195 of 11 universities, from which 587 respondents were selected through stratified sampling technique. Descriptive statistics and independent t-test have been used for the analysis of data that get through a standardized questionnaire. The study concluded that the faculty of natural sciences create knowledge far better than the faculty of social science, for this faculty of social sciences need to involve in research and innovation activities.

The Conservative Forces of Life as a Possibility of Facing the Dialectics Oppression/Insurgence Facing the Peace Culture

This paper is concerned with unhoming secure ideas and practices of knowledge creation, through non-hierarchical, boundary-crossing forms of pedagogy, in order to attend to how processes of enquiry matter, whenever we engage in the struggle to address injustice, and not only for humans. Entrenched assumptions related to age, phase, or education setting, are brought into question, to blur distinctions such as for/with; child/adult; playful/serious and learning/ teaching/research and to explore further possibilities for creative enquiry. Practices of enquiry are theorised through the movement of Philosophy for/ with Children (Haynes, 2018), its community of enquiry pedagogy, (Gregory & Laverty, 2017) and philosophy with picturebooks (Haynes & Murris, 2012, 2016; Murris & Haynes, 2018). What more can happen, when vibrant matter is taken into account, is a driving question. “Thing-power” (Bennett, 2010) and “thinking-through-making” (Ingold, 2013) are activated as part of this exploration. Through accounts of research events from two international projects, the paper draws attention to artists Viviane Schwartz and Paula Rego, their picturebook artworks, and their artistic processes. Each example shows how the artists, artworks and processes came into play through the events, provoking different forms of experimentation. Through exemplification, showing rather than telling, further possibilities for creative enquiry might be inspired.

Systems Dynamics and Activity-Based Modeling to Blueprint Generative Knowledge Management Systems

The predicted embracing of thriving knowledge societies is increasingly compromised by threatening perceptions of information overload and attention poverty, opportunity divides and career uncertainties. By integrating system dynamics, discrete-event, and agent-based modeling, this paper traces the roots of these symptoms back to their causes of information entropy and structural holes, invisible private and undiscoverable public knowledge which together characterize the sad state of our current knowledge management (KM) and creation practices. Looking forward, it proposes a decentralized generative KM approach that prioritizes the capacity development of autonomous individual knowledge workers not at the expense but as a viable means to foster a fruitful co-evolution with traditional organizational KM systems. As part of an ongoing design science research and prototyping project, this systems thinking and hybrid model perspective complements a succession of prior multidisciplinary publications on the subject.

The Possibilities and Constraints for Intersectional Practice in Gender Budgeting Activism

Abstract This article examines how gender budgeting (GB) activists in the United Kingdom have sought to practice intersectionality. It draws on Black feminists’ critiques of white feminists’ tendency to deploy intersectionality as a “cooled out buzz word” that relies on modernist, Western feminist epistemology. Results highlight the limitations of modernist positivist epistemologies, which are often used in economic policy and GB, and the importance of knowledge creation practices and explicit engagement with white women’s privilege in intersectional practice. These findings aim to inform European feminists’ responses to Black feminists’ critiques.

Knowledge creation practices at organizational boundaries: the role of ICT in sickle-cell care for tribal communities

PurposeThis paper aims to examine the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in the knowledge creation practices adopted by a health care organization. The organization is delivering care to patients of a genetic disorder, called the sickle cell, in tribal communities. The paper identifies how ICT intermediates knowledge creation practices across the organizational boundaries wherein tribal patients, front-line counselors and expert physicians interact, which then produces context-specific, evidence-based medicine (EBM).Design/methodology/approachThe knowledge-in-practice approach is adopted to conduct an ethnographic study of sickle cell care practices in a non-profit health care organization in Western India. The analysis focuses on ICT-mediated interactional practices among the physicians, front-line counselors, tribal patients and their families, for more than a year-long observation. These are supplemented with informal and formal interviews, archival records and vignettes based on several episodes to explicate the key knowledge creation practices.FindingsTechnology-mediated informative interactions at organizational boundaries can bridge socio-linguistic and interpretive barriers between actors, while also providing a generative structure that leads to the creation of longitudinal clinical evidence about a rare genetic disorder. Three specific ICT-entwined knowledge creation practices emerge, namely, knowing the community, increasing interactional engagement and constructing gradients of socio-clinical history. These practices generate organization-wide knowledge about the social and clinical dimensions of the genetic disorder. The findings are presented through vignettes and a novel conceptual framework.Research limitations/implicationsThis study identifies various useful knowledge creation practices in health care delivery for resource-constrained emerging economy contexts. Further, the study suggests that the involvement of local front-line actors and ICT can become important resources in the delivery of health care in these settings.Originality/valueA novel framework is developed which demonstrates knowledge creation at organizational boundaries wherein the actors use ICT-based practices for effective delivery of health care. The proposed framework may be used by health care organizations in similar contexts providing care to marginalized communities.

Transformational leadership and knowledge creation practices in Korean and US schools: knowledge assets as mediators

ABSTRACT This study examined a comprehensive model including transformational leadership, individual- and organisational-level knowledge assets (i.e., work engagement and a supportive learning culture), and knowledge creation practices with a cultural comparison between South Korean and US schools. The results indicated that a principal’s transformational leadership strongly affected a supportive learning culture, which is an organisational-level knowledge asset, which in turn led to knowledge creation practices in schools. From a cross-cultural perspective, a principal’s leadership directly affected knowledge creation practices of teachers in Korean schools, whereas a supportive learning culture was found to be more influential on teachers’ attitudes and behaviours related to knowledge creation in US schools. Our study contributes to a better understanding of conditions for knowledge creation practices from a cross-cultural perspective and provides several important implications for the knowledge management literature.

Based model: Using knowledge management to enhance information technology training outcomes among markets requirements

Background: The present research paper considers the use of knowledge management (KM) to enhance Information Technology training outcomes based on markets requirements, with particular focus on Gulf region. Method: Two key research questions would be answered in the paper, they are: what are the findings of the previous studies on role of knowledge management in supporting successful training outcomes, especially in Gulf region? What model, based on knowledge management concepts, can be used to enhance Information Technology training outcomes particularly in the Gulf region? Findings: To draw conclusions, a critical analysis was performed through comparing and contrasting the findings from observations of previous research and the scarce secondary data contained within the scientific sources. To ensure that KM is distributed in the Gulf countries rather than being centralized in certain organizations, a distributed model of knowledge management is proposed. This is based on a realization that different kinds of knowledge bear different KM implications. Improvements/Applications: The model encompasses best practices for knowledge creation, for knowledge sharing and for knowledge retrieval, which most of the reviewed studies identified as being important for enhancing Information Technology training outcomes in the Gulf region. Keywords: Knowledge management; Model; Information Technology; Training outcome; Gulf region

Direct effects of knowledge management practices on organizational performance

The relationship between knowledge management (KM) and firm performance is an interesting field for both scholars and practitioners. Despite the extant literature, more studies are required in order to clarify the abovementioned relationship. The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of KM practices on financial and nonfinancial performance. KM practices are knowledge creation practices, continuous learning practices (CLP), knowledge and feedback systems (KFS), and management of employees’ individual competencies. Methodologically the study uses partial least squares structural equation modeling. The results show that KFS affect firms’ financial performance and that CLP do not influence oneither financial or nonfinancial performance.

Psychological Ownership and Openness to Change: The Mediating Effects of Work Engagement, and Knowledge Creation

This study examines the effects of psychological ownership on engagement, knowledge creation, and openness to change in a Korean public-organization context. This study also examined the mediation effects of engagement and knowledge creation to explain the relation between employees' psychological ownership and their openness to change. Structural equation modeling was conducted, using a total of 202 employees working in a Korean public-sector organization. Psychological ownership impacts engagement, knowledge creation, and openness to change, and engagement positively influence employees' knowledge creation, which also positively influences their openness to change. The mediation effect of engagement between psychological ownership and knowledge-creation practice was also found. From a strategic public-management perspective, psychological ownership should be a greater focus in the dynamic and complex structure and system of present and future workplaces in public-sector organizations. Public-sector organizations should invest more to enhance the level of employees' psychological ownership.

(Neg)Entropic Scenarios Affecting the Wicked Design Spaces of Knowledge Management Systems.

The envisioned embracing of thriving knowledge societies is increasingly compromised by threatening perceptions of information overload, attention poverty, opportunity divides, and career fears. This paper traces the roots of these symptoms back to causes of information entropy and structural holes, invisible private and undiscoverable public knowledge which characterize the sad state of our current knowledge management and creation practices. As part of an ongoing design science research and prototyping project, the article’s (neg)entropic perspectives complement a succession of prior multi-disciplinary publications. Looking forward, it proposes a novel decentralized generative knowledge management approach that prioritizes the capacity development of autonomous individual knowledge workers not at the expense of traditional organizational knowledge management systems but as a viable means to foster their fruitful co-evolution. The article, thus, informs relevant stakeholders about the current unsustainable status quo inhibiting knowledge workers; it presents viable remedial options (as a prerequisite for creating the respective future generative Knowledge Management (KM) reality) to afford a sustainable solution with the generative potential to evolve into a prospective general-purpose technology.