Organising Knowledge Management and Dissemination in New Product Development

Activity Theory as a means for multi-scale analysis of the engineering design process: A protocol study of design in practice

“…The activities summarised in Table 4 describe the groups of related tasks (activities), which were used to map out the meso--scale processes. Development of a design once a final concept has been accepted inc. design refinement and problem solving (Carrizosa & Sheppard, 2000;Kim & Maher, 2008;Luck, 2007) Searching for, requesting, synthesizing and evaluating information inc. searching, interrogation of records and making notes on found data (Hertzum & Pejtersen, 2000;King, Casto, & Jones, 1994) Dissemination Informal distribution of decisions, work plans or progress inc. informal email, interpersonal conversations and shared workspaces (Söderquist, 2006) The range and magnitude of the different meso--scale activities over time for each participant is illustrated in Figure 5. As described in the Section 3.2, these are primarily embedded within the macro--scale design and organisational information processes.…”

Suitable organization forms for knowledge management to attain sustainable competitive advantage in the renewable energy industry

“…Nevertheless, it lacks effective incentives for inter-functional knowledge distribution, which hinders the coordination of different knowledge management [20].…”

Contextual ambidexterity in SMEs: the roles of internal and external rivalry

“…These factors capture the competitive context in which intra-firm knowledge exchanges take place, either internally or externally. The glue that binds them is their impact on the level of intra-firm collaboration and particularly the motivation or willingness for individual managers to share knowledge openly with colleagues in the firm (De Luca and Atuahene-Gima 2007;Soderquist 2006). Accordingly, our conceptual framework, as illustrated in Figure 1, suggests that the relationship between contextual ambidexterity and SME performance is subject to two critical rivalry-driven contingencies, which we elaborate on in the following section.…”