...Xiaofei Zhang; Yutao Sun; Ning Zhou Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how competition with partners affects firms’ R&D investments from the perspective of knowledge acquisition and misappropriation. This study also aims to analyze whether regional intellectual property rights...

... software development industry employees. Findings The results indicate that employee–generative AI collaboration ( EA ) positively influences knowledge acquisition, which, in turn, improves digital performance. Explicit knowledge acquisition has a larger positive effect on digital-enabled task...

...Rita Mura; Francesca Vicentini; Arnaldo Zelli; Luca Mallia Purpose This study aims to investigate the interplay between motivation, experience and knowledge acquisition among board members of nonprofit organizations, and it pursued this goal by generally adopting knowledge-based views and key...

...Ping Zhang; Jaskirat Singh Rai; Intesar Almugren; Marco Pironti; Armand Derhy Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine how students’ adoption of AI is associated with their knowledge acquisition and application, which is further related to their entrepreneurial skill development...

...Xuping Jiang; Ling Yuan; Nourah O. Alshaghdali; Aradhana Galgotia; Antonio Monaco; Speranza Dell’Aversano Purpose This study aims to examine how generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI )-based knowledge acquisition and learning engagement relate to business executives’ valence for using Gen...

... as foundational units of knowledge-driven development. It aims to distinguish the respective contributions of knowledge acquisition and knowledge sharing as input mechanisms, while examining the mediating effects of knowledge integration and knowledge application in translating distributed community knowledge...

...María Isabel Barba-Aragón; Daniel Jiménez-Jiménez Purpose The purpose of this study is to contribute to empirical research on green innovation drivers. This paper analyzes the relationships between training, knowledge acquisition, green innovation and firm performance. Design/methodology...

...://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode With new hybrid working models in place post COVID-19, it is requisite that knowledge workers (KWs) stay agile. Knowledge-oriented leadership (KOL) can help employees with essential knowledge acquisition (KA) facilitating the journey toward hybrid work agility...

...Shuang Ma; Dahui Li; Yonggui Wang; Myat Su Han Purpose This study aims to examine how three types of information technology (IT) capability (supplier technological capability, customer technology-sensing capability and relatedness of IT infrastructure) facilitate knowledge acquisition...

...Hong Jiang; Jingxuan Yang; Wentao Liu Purpose This study aims to explore the effect of innovation ecosystem stability (IES) on innovation performance of enterprises through the mediating role of knowledge acquisition (KA), and to study how these effects are moderated by unabsorbed slack. Design...

... link the individual’s motivation for knowledge acquisition to his affiliation with online knowledge networks, to further access the intellectual capital of the network as a prerequisite for organizational achievement. An online survey with 227 members of higher education and research centers...

..., demonstrate, speak and implement, which according to the author are mutually exclusive. Project management Knowledge management Knowledge acquisition Absorptive capacity Knowledge identification Microprocess In project management (PM), it is common to track the success or failure...

... aims to propose positive and negative firm competitiveness effects of knowledge acquisition of pertinent, irrelevant and erroneous knowledge based on its distinctiveness, the source of knowledge and the presence of firm complements. Aspects of knowledge acquisition from the innovation, knowledge...

...Abel Duarte Alonso; Seng Kok; Nikolaos Sakellarios; Seamus O’Brien Purpose The purpose of this exploratory study is to investigate the significance of self-efficacy and knowledge acquisition among micro businesses operating in challenging economic environments. The study uses social cognitive...

..., workshops and participant observation. Findings The proposed framework comprises four steps: determination of the system’s scope, to establish the project’s goal based on stakeholders’ requirements and prioritise the required products and processes; knowledge acquisition, to classify the knowledge...

... This paper aims to study the effects of knowledge acquisition on innovation performance and the moderating effects of human resource management (HRM), in terms of employee retention and HRM practices, on the above-mentioned relationship. A sample of 129 firms operating in a wide array of sectors has...

... support needs a knowledge base as well. An adequate knowledge acquisition (KA) process leads to accurate knowledge and improves the decision-making process. To manage the risk of a medical service (twin pregnancy in this case) a knowledge management system was created. The captured knowledge may...

...Fariza Hanim Rusly; Peter Yih-Tong Sun; James L Corner Purpose – This study aims to show how change readiness shapes the knowledge acquisition process. The study elicits change readiness factors, at the individual and firm levels, that influence the knowledge acquisition process and are based...

...Steven Pattinson; David Preece Purpose – Recent research into communities of practice (CoPs) has focused on large organizations, suggesting they can be constructed for the purposes of knowledge acquisition and innovation. The present study found that, for science-based SMEs, CoPs are more...

... or vice versa. Design/methodology/approach The authors propose an approach by which they first empirically assess the independence of those two concepts, then KM's fundamental processes, being knowledge acquisition, sharing, and utilization, are hypothesized to have a positive relationship...