... Knowledge management Organizational performance This study examined how the influence of contingent workers can enhance an organization’s innovation performance in electronic manufacturing services (EMS) industry. In just a few hours, contingent workers easily learn how to assemble objects...

... – The Chinese knowledge management theory has achieved great development, the focus of which covers the whole chain from knowledge creation, knowledge transfer, knowledge sharing to knowledge application. However, Chinese aerospace management studies seem not so systematic, although some successful managerial...

... Publishing Limited 2013 Knowledge governance Knowledge sharing Guanxi effect Mediating role China Knowledge management Knowledge is the most basic element and a key strategic resource for firms to acquire intangible assets and capabilities (Grant, 1996). Some scholars consider...

... concepts of human resources. Knowledge management Human resource management China Mindsets 1. Conventional Chinese – born locally, conventionally educated and socially influenced. They speak fluent local language/dialect(s), have little English‐language skill and have never...

.... Nanotechnology Brain Knowledge management Total quality management Social values Ethics © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Vijay K. Arora can be contacted at: vijay.arora@wilkes.edu A number of surveys of business executives and managers (Hissey, 2000 ; Augustine, 1998...

..... Design/methodology/approach The paper focuses on the company's strategy and its global integration, its structure in terms of decentralisation, its organizational culture, and how the corporate approach towards knowledge management and cross‐site knowledge transfer is attuned to these premises...

... knowledge flow efficiently with the mediation of cultural variations. Research limitations/implications This paper concerns culture at national level only. Culture that varies at a lesser level, such as organizational or occupational culture, also has an influence on knowledge management. Originality...

... findings of how disciplinary roots of knowledge are tapped in corporate strategy. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Epistemology Corporate strategy Knowledge management With the continuing, rising interest in processes of knowledge‐creating organizations (Nonaka, 1991...