This study is motivated by the question ‘‘how do organizational routines influence the three knowledge management processes of acquisition, creation, utilization and sharing?’’ and accordingly it seeks to address this issue.
This paper aims to discuss some of the debates that have surrounded knowledge management as a field since its inception in 1990s from the perspective of the dilemmas that they have raised regarding: the notion of knowledge management as a field in relationship to other cognate fields such as information management, and the implications introduced by different approaches and perspectives on mana…
The purpose of this paper is to examine the manifold linkages connecting the Toyota Production System (TPS) back to the Gilbreths and others, and to determine how these have contributed to enterprise-wide best practice. Industrial engineering (IE) theory rapidly subsumed method study and thereby made considerable contributions to output in World War II (WWII). The outcome is the positing of “…
This article draws attention to the how of logistics management or logistics as part of the learning organization. The logistics discipline has advanced over the years, but these advances have been mainly on the what side, what could be done rather than how it is done. In a world of increasing opportunities, the restraining factor is increasingly how. New product and market strategies depend up…
According to the most recent theories, the competitiveness of organizations is based on the development of competencies. Core competencies result from greater mastery than competitors of organizational abilities valued by customers. This paper seeks to investigate how a more thorough integration of the supply chain may be associated with greater mastery of operational competencies .
This paper aims to examine how socially responsible supply management activities, a term labeled purchasing social responsibility (PSR) in the extant literature, affect a firm’s costs. There has been much debate, and mixed empirical findings, regarding whether socially responsible behavior on the part of companies improves or reduces firm performance.
The purpose of this paper is to describe a retrospective reflection over unconscious, emergent learning among employees of an organization and to suggest how to capture these moments of experiential learning for future organizational learning.
This paper aims to analyze and quantitatively compare existing empirical findings on the role of organizational information-processing and new product outcomes. The meta-analytic technique is used to reconcile some of the current divergent thinking on the role of organizational learning in new product success.