...Aoife Cummins; Andrea Baumann; Benson Honig Purpose This paper aims to investigate how product design can support the translation of knowledge across cultural contexts. Design/methodology/approach This study adopted an instrumental case study design to explore how knowledge can be translated...

...Stefano Magistretti; Claudio Dell’Era; Federico Frattini; Antonio Messeni Petruzzelli Purpose Several studies show that identity is a critical success factor in design-intensive industries, leading managers and executives to identify solutions that enable firms to simultaneously innovate while...

...Luca Simeone; Giustina Secundo; Giovanni Schiuma Purpose This paper aims to investigate the role of design as a knowledge translation mechanism in R&D-oriented open innovation. In particular, the paper intends to look at how design can be used as a means of knowledge transfer among various...

...Surendra Sarnikar; Amit V. Deokar Purpose This paper presents a design approach for process-based knowledge management (PKM) systems that can support knowledge-intensive processes where effective task execution is highly reliant on the knowledge and expertise of participants executing the tasks...

... creative outputs (KIBS in design and communication). Studies on knowledge management and on service management emphasize the opportunity to gain efficiency through a standardization of services and organizational processes. However, creative activities are characterized by informality and difficulty...

...Ning Nan Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore effective incentive design that can address the information asymmetry in knowledge sharing processes and variability of the intangible nature of knowledge. Design/methodology/approach A principal‐agent model is first...

... as organizational dimensions, such as a city. The city is the larger context, or structural capital surrounding the human capital, for the value creation dynamics. This also implies that the city is a very complex issue but also highly dynamic knowledge context. Design/methodology/approach The method...

...Phillip Olla; Jeanne Holm; Bernard Rothenburger; Daniel Galarreta Purpose The aim of this paper is to provide a conceptual and methodological framework in order to prevent knowledge loss in a long duration space project. Design/methodology/approach Starting from risk management...

... objective of this current research is, from the perspective of evolutionary ecology, to suggest a framework of system design to link KM and R&D management. Design/methodology/approach The chronological profile of R&D management systems over the past few decades is reviewed...