Knowledge-oriented business process management as a catalyst to the existence of network organizations

Sobolewska, Olga

doi:10.7341/20201614

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“…In this current work, we view the firm's attempts to gain tangible and intangible resources from multiple overlapping standpoints grounded in strategic management. We follow Sobolewska's (2020) view that externally gained knowledge is a complementary resource that is considered as an opportunity, accessed through networking, to supplement the firm's own insufficient resources. In entrepreneurship and strategic management, resource management is a dynamic capability necessary for survival and continuance, particularly under conditions of environmental uncertainty and recognized resource scarcity (Brush et al, 2001;Grichnik, Brinckmann, Singh, & Manigart, 2014).…”

Section: Resource-based View Of the Firm Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In turbulent environments, firms cannot easily foresee which resources will be vitally important; thus it is crucial to invest in network relationships that are believed to increase the number and type of available resources (Johannisson, 1986;Sobolewska, 2020). Social and economic supportive environmental conditions were considered by Bitowska (2020) to be important in overcoming or adapting to uncertainties.…”

Section: Supportive Environmentmentioning

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Direct and moderation effects on U.S. apparel manufacturers’ engagement in network ties

Miller¹,

Engel-Enright²,

Brown³

2021

JEMI

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PURPOSE: Firms do not continue and prosper purely on their own individual endeavors, as each firm is influenced by the activities of others, and thus direct and indirect relationships shape the firm’s strategic management. These relationships form the tactics by which knowledge and other strategically important resources are accessed and created. Forming and maintaining ties among members of a network have been the subject of numerous research studies in the social, economic, and business literature. Our work is framed by the resource-based view of the firm perspective along with social capital theory and its shared constructs in network theory. Prior findings suggest that networking ties are strategic actions generated for firm growth and continuance. The ties may be short-term or develop into long-term relationships. The intent of this research is to fill some of the gaps in interorganizational networking strategy by analyzing five antecedents that have been suggested in the literature as individually associated with entrepreneurs’ engagement in network ties. In this way, our work provides another research avenue for examining networking’s contribution to strategic management. We hypothesized positive connections to entrepreneurs’ engagement in network ties from antecedents involving the firm’s knowledge absorptive capacity, business goals, entrepreneurial orientation, social interactions, and support from their environment. METHODOLOGY: In our quantitative approach, we tested our proposed macrolevel direct and moderating connections through an online survey of 125 U.S. apparel manufacturing firms. The apparel manufacturing sector in the U.S., as in many countries, has struggled with multiple disrupting factors contributing to the sector’s decline in firm continuance. FINDINGS: The results from OLS regression analyses support our hypothesized connections in that each of the five antecedents significantly contributed to entrepreneurs’ engagement in network ties; however, when all five were collectively examined only absorptive capacity, social interaction, and business goals were significant (R2 = 0.58). Further examination of moderation effects found the entrepreneurs’ perceptions of a supportive environment to modify both entrepreneurial orientation and business goals. RESEARCH AND PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS: The effects of a supportive environment on business goals’ relationship with network ties were greater when perceptions of a supportive environment decreased, while the effects of a supportive environment on entrepreneurship orientation’s relationship with network ties were greater when perceptions of a supportive environment increased suggesting further study of U.S. entrepreneurs’ perceptions of their environments. Entrepreneurs’ interested in building domestic and international supply chain ties may find network ties provide one solution for adapting the firm’s resources for global competitiveness. Future studies may direct attention to other industry sectors or countries for replication with larger sample sizes as we recognize the limitations to generalizability and scale refinement due to our limited sample size. ORIGINALITY AND VALUE: The examination of five constructs to shed light on how an organization’s decisions may relate to engaging in networks and provides theoretical as well as practical implications that contribute to the larger organizational system framework.

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Section: Resource-based View Of the Firm Perspectivementioning

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Section: Supportive Environmentmentioning

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Direct and moderation effects on U.S. apparel manufacturers’ engagement in network ties

Miller¹,

Engel-Enright²,

Brown³

2021

JEMI

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“…Literature studies have revealed the so far very meager and scattered work in the field of embedding cooperation between enterprises in interorganizational networks, which definitely does not sufficiently describe the impact of the context of collaboration on enterprise cooperation Sobolewska, 2020). The conducted studies prove that a research area has been identified that has not yet been extensively explored, a fact which requires undertaking work to strengthen the theoretical and empirical approach.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 98%

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2020

JEMI

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The JOURNAL OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND INNOVATION is an interdisciplinary, double blind-reviewed journal, emphasizing theoretical and empirical articles in entrepreneurship, management, innovation and related fields. The journal is published both in printed form and on-line at www.jemi.edu.pl. THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP AREA OF THE JOURNAL The entrepreneurship area of the journal covers the three major topics: 1) venture creation and small business, 2) the impact of entrepreneurship on economic growth including local and regional development, and 3) entrepreneurial attitudes and motives. We invite original papers of theoretical and empirical nature, rooted in the disciplines of economics, management, sociology, political science, and psychology. The interdisciplinary research is encouraged to assure a comprehensive approach to the topics discussed and to advance both theory and practice. THE MANAGEMENT AREA OF THE JOURNAL Management, as a thematic scope of the journal, focuses on theoretical and empirical considerations of various areas, such as: strategic management, operation or production management, human resource management, information and management, contemporary management problems, new methods and management tools, new forms of organization and management, new threats in management, or new challenges in the organization's environment. THE INNOVATION AREA OF THE JOURNAL The innovation area of the Journal's focus will emphasize a broad range of topics and approaches, including (but not limited to): 1) role of private and public sector in development and diffusion of innovations, 2) product, process and business model innovations, 3) profiles of innovative products, structures and processes, aimed at improving management practice and providing inspiration for entrepreneurs, 4) comparative analyses of national, regional policy or sector issues, such as R&D trends, patents, citations etc., 5) theoretical work on economic, organizational and scientific aspects of innovation, encouraging the search for inspirations from various disciplines, including natural sciences, arts and humanities. THE ENTREPRENEURIAL FINANCE AREA OF THE JOURNAL The entrepreneur or entrepreneurial firm, the institutions providing finance to the entrepreneurs, and the different types of financial sources used by the entrepreneurial firms or investors. Among the areas of our special interests might be enumerated: accounting and corporate finance, financial market as a background for SME development, entrepreneurial finance, regulatory and supervisory aspects related to corporate finance.

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“…Literature studies have revealed the so far very meager and scattered work in the field of embedding cooperation between enterprises in interorganizational networks, which definitely does not sufficiently describe the impact of the context of collaboration on enterprise cooperation (Lis, 2019;Sobolewska, 2020). The conducted studies prove that a research area has been identified that has not yet been extensively explored, a fact which requires undertaking work to strengthen the theoretical and empirical approach.…”

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Multidimensional analysis of embeddedness and cooperation in a cluster – a literature and empirical study

Frankowska¹

2020

JEMI

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Cooperati on of enterprises within inter-organizati onal networks is a complex research and cogniti ve area due to the multi dimensional nature of cooperati on, which is oft en a mixture of moti ves, intenti ons, goals and operati ng conditi ons. Literature studies have revealed the so far very meager and scatt ered work in the fi eld of embedding cooperati on between enterprises in inter-organizati onal networks, which defi nitely does not suffi ciently describe the impact of the context of collaborati on on enterprise cooperati on. The main aim of the arti cle was to understand and explain, on the basis of the concept of embeddedness, whether there are relati ons between the parti cipati on of enterprises in a cluster-type inter-organizati onal network (embeddedness and its dimensions) and their cooperati on in the cluster. Implementati on of research goals required the development of a research process covering three stages. The essence and dimensions of embeddedness of cooperati ng enterprises in inter-organizati onal networks (structural, relati onal, social, positi onal, territorial, geographical, spati al, insti tuti onal, ecological, politi cal and temporal) were determined. Next, a survey of European cluster managers (study 1) on cooperati on in a cluster was carried out in order to bett er understand the dimensions of embeddedness of enterprises cooperati ng in clusters (qualitati ve research, IDI). In the next stage, a survey of cluster enterprises was carried out (study 2) to determine the relati ons between their embeddedness in the cluster and cooperati on with other cluster companies (quanti tati ve research, CAWI). Then, triangulati on of data sources, research methods and context was used. As a result, it was established that four dimensions of embeddedness are of key importance for cooperati ng enterprises embedded in the cluster, namely: structural, geographical, insti tuti onal and relati onal. Moreover, the results of the research show that there is a positi ve relati on between embedding enterprises in the cluster and their cooperati on.

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Knowledge-oriented business process management as a catalyst to the existence of network organizations

Cited by 8 publications

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Direct and moderation effects on U.S. apparel manufacturers’ engagement in network ties

Direct and moderation effects on U.S. apparel manufacturers’ engagement in network ties

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Multidimensional analysis of embeddedness and cooperation in a cluster – a literature and empirical study

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