Building Structural Capital: A New Key to Generating Business Value

Across the great divide: HRD, technology translation, and knowledge migration in bridging the knowledge gap between SMEs and Universities

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Applying complexity theory perspective to knowledge management in the innovation context

“…For Alavi and Leidner (2001), "knowledge is a justified personal belief that increases an individual's capacity to take effective action", where action means physical skills and competencies, cognitive activity or both. Lank (1997) describes knowledge "as a vital business asset" and "human knowledge [as] the major source of value creation". Mohanty et al (2006), as cited in Yadav et al (2020), define knowledge as the "fact or condition of knowing something with a considerable degree of familiarity through experience, association or contact".…”

“…As a result, knowledge and knowledge management (KM) became crucial (Teece, 1998;Rahimi et al, 2017;Areed et al, 2021). Knowledge converts into a binding instrument and vital strategic resource (Lank, 1997;Pan and Scarbrough, 1999;Dasgupta and Gupta, 2009;Khalil and Dudezert, 2015), and firms need to become "knowledgecreating" businesses (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 2007;Nonaka and Takeuchi, 2019). The usefulness of knowledge for innovation relies on its management (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 2007;Zelaya-Zamora and Senoo, 2013;Rahimi et al, 2017;Ode and Ayavoo, 2020).…”

The impact of intellectual capital – knowledge management strategy fit on firm performance

“…The "ideal" IC profile to fit the strategy should contain strong structural and relational capital with adaptive human capital. Strong structural capital provides mature infrastructure to combine new knowledge acquired from outside with the existing one, thus helps to innovate the way to make use of the assets for value generating (Lank, 1997;Aramburu and Saenz, 2011;Teece, 2000). Strong relational capital not only helps to gain knowledge from outside stakeholders, but also facilitates cooperation to improve business performance (De Clercq and Sapienza, 2006;Sharabati et al, 2010).…”