... performance, innovation and environmental compliance. Additionally, the study investigates the influence of environmental compliance on overall business performance. Design/methodology/approach The organizational resource-based view was used to develop a theoretical model and accompanying hypotheses...

.... Originality/value – This article is one of the first to find empirical support for the role of CKM within firms and its importance on innovation capability and firm performance. This study can provide valuable insights and guidance for researchers and managers as well. Business performance Innovation...

... to improve business performance. Design/methodology/approach A sample of 241 Brazilian companies was surveyed, using Web‐based questionnaires with 54 questions, using ten‐point scales to measure the degree of agreement on each item of each construct. Structural equation modeling techniques were...

... management, but because the planning, design, assessment and revision of the organizational knowledge resources and processes can support the business performance improvements. Design/methodology/approach The selection of the articles collected in this special issue is largely based on the work...

... and development of a company's intellectual capital. Knowledge asset Value creation Performance improvement Assessment Measurement architecture Intellectual capital Business performance Value added Why do companies need to formulate strategies for assessing organizational knowledge assets...

... particular organizational characteristics that may affect the effectiveness of intranet‐based SNS. Social networks Business performance Knowledge management Cost reduction Japan In recent years, the usage of business blogs and social networking services (SNS) in Japan has steadily...

... Limited 2010 Organizational culture Knowledge management Business performance In recent years, the rapid development of information technology has led to an economic system with global, virtual, and dynamic industries (Harris, 2001 ; Ahn and Chang, 2004). In order to cope with radical...

...Suk‐Gwon Chang; Jae‐Hyeon Ahn Purpose The paper proposes first, to understand how and how much knowledge contributes toward explicit business performance improvement and, second, through the understanding of knowledge contribution, to provide a guiding principle for the effective knowledge...

...); and superior use of information (Carneiro, 2000). This paper will empirically examine the link between knowledge management and innovation and firm performance. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Knowledge management Innovation Business performance Knowledge management has recently...

..., research, and practices on knowledge management develops a framework that contrasts existing technology‐push models with proposed strategy‐pull models. The framework explains how the “critical gaps” between technology inputs, related knowledge processes, and business performance outcomes can be bridged...

... and performance is investigated for 195 Spanish firms. The technique used was structural equation modeling (SEM). The results show, first of all, that collaborative culture encourages the development of organizational learning, which at the same time, has a significant effect on business performance. And, second...