Effective knowledge management practices in organizations are focused on knowledge creation and knowledge transfer activities.
We also find that some other quality management practices, such as top management support, customer focus, supplier quality management, quality information, and recognition and rewards, do not have a direct impact on knowledge creation.
Focusing on innovation and knowledge creation since the country can no longer rely upon low-cost, resource-intensive manufacturing jobs to provide employment opportunities and spur economic growth.
Focus on knowledge and wisdom, not age.
Although KT research often focuses on the action cycle, the knowledge creation cycle precedes action and requires particular attention in India.
In this model, innovation "evolves" through the selection preferences of agents: those focused on wealth creation select for innovations that promise a profit, actors focused on knowledge select for innovations that advance science, while actors focused on control select for innovations in line with the norms they seek to advance.1.1
They recognized that development of resources and capabilities would be more difficult to imitate: The core-competency perspective focused attention on the importance of knowledge creation and building learning processes for competitive advantage.2 But this approach, too, faced limits as companies recognized that their people were not equal to the new knowledge-intensive tasks.
This is consistent with the idea that as firms approach the technological frontier, they increasingly need to focus on the creation of own knowledge and the adoption of innovation-based growth strategies to stay competitive.
Handzic's main teaching and research interests lie in the areas of knowledge management and decision support, with a particular focus on the processes and socio-technological enablers of knowledge creation, sharing, retention and discovery.
