Knowledge, Social Capital and Organizational Learning: The Impact of the Physical Environment on Innovation

Formal Safety versus Real Safety: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches to Safety Culture – Evidence from Estonia

“…Felício et al (2012) investigated relationships between SC and human capital in SMEs. The positive effects of SC connections to KM was studied by Burt et al (2000) and Nahapiet et al (1998); to CoP by Gherardi et al (2000), to knowledge transfer by Wei et al (2011), to organisational learning by McGrath et al (2006); and to improving creativity and innovativeness by Camps et al (2011). Several studies have tried to provide some preliminary evidence on the role of organisational knowledge in building safer and healthier workplaces (Gherardi et al, 2000;Podgorski, 2010;Nuñez et al, 2011) and in enhancing safety culture.…”

The Impact of SNSs Usage on Social Capital and Knowledge Sharing in Organization

“…Organizational learning is a social phenomenon during which individual beliefs and assumptions are combined with those of others to create shared systems of meaning for the group members [5]. This Organizational learning process is also affected by knowledge sharing [6].…”

“…Physical environment is an important factor in the creation, sharing, and maintenance of organizational knowledge [5]. Online environment especially in social network sites has the same social characteristic with physical environment since computer and internet can facilitate organization to connect each other easily.…”