... labour Human resource management 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...

... – 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...

... literature on knowledge governance is scarce, it has begun to attract scholarly attention. Scholars are now predicting that it will become a key topic of research (Foss and Michailova, 2009). Knowledge governance assumes that governance mechanisms can guide and influence knowledge management processes...

... difficulty in understanding, working and living in the Chinese culture. Siew Fang Law can be contacted at: siewfang.law@rmit.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Knowledge management Human resource management China Mindsets What is interesting in all these suggestions...

... applications. Vijay K. Arora can be contacted at: vijay.arora@wilkes.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Nanotechnology Brain Knowledge management Total quality management Social values Ethics Nanoengineering will make us healthy and wealthy though not necessarily wise...

... 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...

..... 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...

... professional. Or, say the business graduate from one skilled to be an engineer. Epistemology Corporate strategy Knowledge management The ancient Chinese Art of War by Sun Tzu is now globally, widely known and especially among corporate strategists. Yet modern western literature...