Empirical approach to understand the knowledge management process
Contribuinte(s) |
Ahmed, Syed M. Azhar, Salman Mohamed, Sherif |
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Data(s) |
13/07/2007
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Resumo |
Knowledge Management (KM) is a process that focuses on knowledge-related activities to facilitate knowledge creation, capture, transformation and use, with the ultimate aim of leveraging organisations’ intellectual capital to achieve organisational objectives. The KM process receives input from its context (e.g. internal business environment), and produces output (i.e. knowledge). It is argued that the validity of such knowledge should be justified by business performance. The study, this paper reports on, provides enhanced empirical understanding of such an input-process-output relationship through investigating the interactions among different KM activities in the context of how construction organisations in Hong Kong manage knowledge. To this end, a theoretical framework along with a number of hypotheses are proposed and empirically tested through correlation, regression and path analyses. A questionnaire survey was administered to a sample of construction contractors operating in Hong Kong to facilitate testing the proposed relationships. More than 140 respondents from 99 organisations responded to the survey. The study findings demonstrate that both organisational and technical environments have the potential to predict the intensity of KM activities. Furthermore, different categories of KM activities interact with each other, and collectively they could be used to predict business performance. |
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application/pdf |
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Publicador |
Florida International University |
Relação |
http://eprints.qut.edu.au/58930/1/Chen_%26_Mohamed_2007_GC_conference.pdf http://www.fiu.edu/~citc/citc4/ Chen, Le & Mohamed, Sherif (2007) Empirical approach to understand the knowledge management process. In Ahmed, Syed M., Azhar, Salman, & Mohamed, Sherif (Eds.) Accelerating Innovation in Engineering, Management and Technology, Florida International University, Gold Coast, QLD, pp. 525-532. |
Direitos |
Copyright 2007 CITC-IV, USA. |
Fonte |
School of Civil Engineering & Built Environment; Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering |
Palavras-Chave | #120201 Building Construction Management and Project Planning #150301 Business Information Management (incl. Records Knowledge and Information Management and Intelligence) #knowledge management #organizational culture #technical environment, #business performance |
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Conference Paper |